Standing Building Recording

Date 4 February 2011 - 3 March 2011

Event ID 993053

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/993053

NO 5200 0522 A programme of building recording and analysis was carried out 4 February – 3 March 2011 during structural repairs on a doorway within Kellie Castle. The work exposed a disused fireplace, with its hearth slab, lintel, relieving arch and flue, two plaster-lined presses back-to-back in the thickness of the wall, and different schemes of painted wooden panelling on either side of the wall, with details of joinery, reuse of timbers, and successive paint schemes including simulated woodgrain and marble, and trompe l’oeuil effects. The panelling was generally of softwood, rough sawn behind and planed on the front, fixed with handmade iron nails. There were also oak dooks set in the wall, perhaps surviving from an earlier scheme now lost.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: The National Trust for Scotland

David Bowler, Alder Archaeology Ltd

2012