Edinburgh, 32 Calton Road
No Class (Event)
Site Name Edinburgh, 32 Calton Road
Classification No Class (Event)
Canmore ID 273413
Site Number NT27SE 5904
NGR NT 26476 73930
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/273413
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 5904 264 739
An archaeological evaluation was carried out in November 2004 in advance of a proposed housing development, comprising 37m of linear trial trenching equating to a 5% sample of the development area. A similar sequence of deposits was encountered within each trench, with the walls of a 19th-century building truncating a series of 'garden soil' deposits containing domestic waste, including pottery dating from the medieval and post-medieval periods.
Report lodged with Edinburgh SMR.
Sponsor: Sundial Properties Ltd.
C Hatherley 2004
NT 264 739 We carried out an archaeological watching brief in June-July 2006 during ground investigation works on both the N and S sides of Calton Road, within the former burgh of Canongate. The watching brief revealed four fragments of disarticulated human bone within the area to the S of Calton Road, in an area previously evaluated (DES 1999, 35) and probably associated with the former graveyard surrounding the Canongate Kirk in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. One fragment of post-medieval pottery was also found in association with the disarticulated bone.
Archive to be deposited in NMRS.
Sponsor: Mountgrange (Calton Gate) Ltd
Victoria Clements and Laura Scott, 2006.
Watching Brief (September 2006 - October 2006)
NT 2648 7392 An archaeological watching brief was undertaken during September and October 2006 on main
contract groundworks in response to a planning condition. The work followed an evaluation in 2004 that encountered the foundations of a 19th-century building truncating a series of 'topsoil' deposits. These contained domestic waste including pottery dating from the medieval and post-medieval periods. The
groundworks associated with the development did not extend deeper than the upper of these deposits, and recovered artefacts of post-medieval to modern date.
Archive to be deposited with RCAHMS. Report deposited with Edinburgh SMR and RCAHMS.
Funder: UNITE.