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Evaluation in 1987 and excavation in 1988 was carried out by SUAT ahead of development of a shopping centre within the core of the Medieval burgh and market. A trial excavation in December 1987 identified two sites for the 1988 excavation, at 115 and at 121 High Street. Excavation at 115 High Street (20m north of the frontage) revealed an interesting sequence of occupation comprising pits and the posthole of an early structure containing 12th century pottery. This structure had been overlaid in the 14th century by a building consisting of a clay-bonded stone wall. This building had gone out of use and was succeeded in the 17th century by a stone building with a floor of clay bricks. This building had been demolished and the area used for a large cess pit on the 19th century. At 121 High Street (40m north of the frontage) pits were found cut into the natural sand. One was square and lined with clay-bonded walls: it contained 12th century pottery. Another series of pits and post holes related to activities in the back and of this High Street property dating from the 17th century. A sequence of property boundaries in both stone and timber was also discovered as well as a well on the west side of the area. This work indicates that in some places archaeological deposits of considerable importance do survive much closer to the High Street frontage than had previously been supposed. Finds of pottery, wood fragments, leather offcuts and other objects were recovered during the excavation.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
Moray
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NJ26SW0060 - 107-147 HIGH STREET, ELGIN