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Glasgow, George Street

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Site Name Glasgow, George Street

Classification No Class (Event)

Canmore ID 98877

Site Number NS56NE 201

NGR NS 597 652

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Glasgow, City Of
  • Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District City Of Glasgow
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NS56NE 201 597 652

See also NS56NE 30.

NS 597 652. Trial work was carried out in the George Street/ High Street/ College street/ Shuttle street area of Glasgow for one week in July 1992. The site was divided into seven areas of archaeological interest by the Strathclyde Regional archaeologist.

Area A: The supposed site of the Franciscan friary (NS56NE 30). Much of the area has been disturbed by 19th century and later activity, but in some places there is still a fairly deep deposit of darl loamy garden soil. The area is known to have been used as a garden in the post-reformation period, and the soil should seal earlier features. In the section of the trench A1 was a structure consisting of large pieces of sandstone roughly mortared together. This appears to have been a dyke.

Area B: Possibly the outer part of the friary. This all been heavily disturbed and no archaeological features were recovered.

Area C: The line of the medieval path to Deanside Well. The whole area was cut by 19th century cellars and no archaeological information remains.

Areas D and E: Shuttle Street frontage, originally dating from the 15th century. Area D was disturbed by cellerage, but some shallow deposits remained in E, including a narrow line of stones set into the natural which may be an early wall or boundary.

Area F: High Street frontage. The immediate frontage has been truncated, but some features remain in the backlands, including a N-S stone wall set into the natural.

Area G Burghal backlands. There has been some disturbance and cellerage along the High Street and College Street frontages, but further back a sequence of probaly early to late 19th century features was found, as well as a natural horizon of garden soil.

Sponsor: University of Strathclyde

A Bailey 1992.

Activities

Trial Trench (July 1992)

NS 597 652. Trial work was carried out in the George Street/ High Street/ College street/ Shuttle street area of Glasgow for one week in July 1992. The site was divided into seven areas of archaeological interest by the Strathclyde Regional archaeologist.

Area A: The supposed site of the Franciscan friary (NS56NE 30). Much of the area has been disturbed by 19th century and later activity, but in some places there is still a fairly deep deposit of darl loamy garden soil. The area is known to have been used as a garden in the post-reformation period, and the soil should seal earlier features. In the section of the trench A1 was a structure consisting of large pieces of sandstone roughly mortared together. This appears to have been a dyke.

Area B: Possibly the outer part of the friary. This all been heavily disturbed and no archaeological features were recovered.

Area C: The line of the medieval path to Deanside Well. The whole area was cut by 19th century cellars and no archaeological information remains.

Areas D and E: Shuttle Street frontage, originally dating from the 15th century. Area D was disturbed by cellerage, but some shallow deposits remained in E, including a narrow line of stones set into the natural which may be an early wall or boundary.

Area F: High Street frontage. The immediate frontage has been truncated, but some features remain in the backlands, including a N-S stone wall set into the natural.

Area G Burghal backlands. There has been some disturbance and cellerage along the High Street and College Street frontages, but further back a sequence of probaly early to late 19th century features was found, as well as a natural horizon of garden soil.

Sponsor: University of Strathclyde

A Bailey 1992.

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