Ayr, South Harbour Street
No Class (Event)
Site Name Ayr, South Harbour Street
Classification No Class (Event)
Canmore ID 41748
Site Number NS32SW 112
NGR NS 333 222
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Ayr
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NS32SW 112 333 222.
The discovery, by R Gourlay, of a quantity of medieval potsherds from the surface and within dark soil in rear of the most northerly bastion of the Cromwellian Citadel (see NS32SW 15) in South Harbour Street, led to the excavation of the site by members of the Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society under the direction of Dr Waite. This was carried out over the winter of 1976-77. Large quantities of pottery
were recoverd, some of it apparently early, perhaps 12th-13th century
in date, although the context from which it came suggests that the material had been redeposited from elsewhere. Associated with this pottery was a stone wall, retaining the sand slope beneath the back gardens of Montgomerie Terrace, and apparently that indicated on Tessin's Plan as part of the Cromwellian defences.
R Gourlay and A Turner 1977.