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Musselburgh, 93 North High Street

Building (19th Century)

Site Name Musselburgh, 93 North High Street

Classification Building (19th Century)

Canmore ID 240011

Site Number NT37SW 969

NGR NT 34042 72855

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council East Lothian
  • Parish Inveresk (East Lothian)
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District East Lothian
  • Former County Midlothian

Activities

Archaeological Evaluation (31 May 2002 - 30 June 2002)

NT 341 729 An evaluation and historic building survey were undertaken at 93 North High Street in July 2002 in advance of a housing development. The site is within the core of the medieval settlement of Fisherrow, a suburb of the medieval burgh of Musselburgh, and occupies a plot of land running N-S between the North High Street and Gracefield Court. The linear layout may reflect that of a medieval burgage plot.

The evaluation did not uncover any buried remains of certain archaeological significance. Most of the deposits encountered appeared to be modern, and related to the last garage structure to have occupied the site. However, below and N of the garage foundations was a layer of black silty soil of varying thickness. This deposit is potentially of archaeological significance, and may be the remains of a medieval or later backland cultivation soil, although the absence of artefacts precludes any secure dating.

Data Structure Report deposited in the NMRS.

Sponsor: Cockburn Building Company Ltd.

M Johnson (CFA) 2002

Standing Building Recording (31 May 2002 - 30 June 2002)

NT37SW 969 341 729

NT 341 729 An evaluation and historic building survey were undertaken at 93 North High Street in July 2002 in advance of a housing development. The site is within the core of the medieval settlement of Fisherrow, a suburb of the medieval burgh of Musselburgh, and occupies a plot of land running N-S between the North High Street and Gracefield Court. The linear layout may reflect that of a medieval burgage plot.

The site contained a wall which constitutes the present western boundary of Gracefield car park, this incorporated features of archaeological interest and was considered to be of sufficient interest to warrant recording prior to demolition. The wall measured 28m long by 2.6m high and 0.6m thick and was built of uncoursed rubble. Two vertical scars of partition walls, and three blocked windows between them, were present. The 1853 OS map depicts two properties with external stairs adjacent to a close that is now a public car park. The 1893 2nd edition OS map shows that the stairs had been removed and a new property boundary built. At least part of the standing boundary wall may relate to the mapped property boundary. The return wall scars exposed on the wall showed that a building pre-dated the close and part of its main supporting wall may have been incorporated into the new boundary wall depicted on the 1893 map.

Data Structure Report deposited in the NMRS.

Sponsor: Cockburn Building Company Ltd.

M Johnson (CFA) 2002

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