Excavations at Maybury Park, Edinburgh (1990–2)

Moloney, Colm; Lawson, John A.

doi:10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2006.23.1-39

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“…Structures 7 and 8 provided no datable material, although Structure 8 has been indirectly dated through association with the stone hollow and the Iron Age fire-pit. Elsewhere in the Lothians these types of structures have yielded dates from the Middle Bronze Age (Lamb's Nursery, Dalkeith (Cook 2000) and Maybury Park (Moloney & Lawson 2007)) to the Later Iron Age (Monktonhall, Inveresk (Hanson 2002), Fishers Road, Port Seton (Haselgrove & McCullagh 2000) and Melville Nurseries (Raisen & Rees 1995)). Structure 4 is Iron Age in date and it seems likely that Structures 5 and 6, which are similar in morphology and size and form a cluster with Structure 4, are of similar date.…”

Section: Prehistoric Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Excavations in advance of a phased commercial development at Newbridge, Edinburgh (NGR: NT 121 733) have revealed a palimpsest of activity spanning the Middle Bronze Age to the medieval period. There was a scatter of domestic settlement in the Middle Bronze Age and pre-Roman Iron Age, together with small ring-groove features which may be the remnants of a barrow cemetery forming part of a later prehistoric ritual landscape centred on Huly Hill. Perhaps the most significant discovery of these excavations is the identification of a section of Roman road which probably represents the westward extension of Dere Street linking Inveresk and Carriden. Its discovery provides solid evidence for the routeway that the milestone at Ingliston and the temporary camps at Gogar have always intimated. Finally, the area was farmed in the medieval period, the associated settlement probably lying to the north of the excavated area. The dating evidence suggests two distinct phases of activity, in the 11th to 12th centuries and in the 13th to 14th centuries, a pattern reflected in other medieval settlement in the Lothians.

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Section: Prehistoric Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%