Anstruther Easter, Tolbooth Wynd
Unidentified Pottery
Site Name Anstruther Easter, Tolbooth Wynd
Classification Unidentified Pottery
Canmore ID 141998
Site Number NO50SE 221
NGR NO 567 036
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Anstruther Easter
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO50SE 221 567 036
NO 567 036 Followng a site evaluation by the Trust in November 1994, an excavation was carried out in March 1995, in advance of a sheltered housing development. Former derelict houses and a joiner's workshop had occupied the site, which lies between Tolbooth Wynd and Cunzie Street, in the core of the burgh of Anstruther Easter. This investigation revealed evidence of medieval activity in the vicinity and a complex sequence of post-medieval structural remains and deposits.
Two trenches were hand excavated. They were positioned with the objectives of investigating the maximum area of the Tolbooth Wynd frontage and to investigate deposits lying below the floor surface of the former workshop.
The earliest activity identified on the site was represented by two loam deposits containing medieval pottery. A series of substantial cut features represented early post-medieval activity, dated by pottery to the 16th or early 17th centuries. Hearths, an area of clay and earrth floor, a stone-lined well and a series of stone wall foundations represented a subsequent phase of activity.
The pottery assemblage from the excavation included East Coast White Gritty ware, Yorkshire ware and a small group of sherd of North European earthenware. Among the artefact assemblage were dress accessories, household items (including an iron key with a kidney-shaped bow) and objects representing horse equipment and building materials.
Sponsor: Kingdom Housing Association.
A Cox 1995.