EHG6225 - Watching brief - new house plot, Doocot View, Wick

An archaeological watching brief was undertaken by Avon Archaeology (Highland) in 2024 during the preliminary stage of topsoil stripping for the development of a new dwelling on land located at Doocot View, Wick, Caithness. The study site (House Plot No. 29) was located approximately 30m south of The Pap Broch (SM578), a Scheduled Monument, and represented one of five plots (House Plots 29 to 31) with consent for a new dwelling on the site, the remaining four of which had already been constructed and completed. The project was designed to ensure that all significant buried archaeological deposits, features and finds revealed during the course of preliminary topsoil stripping for the development were identified, fully recorded and reported. No significant archaeological deposits, features or finds of any kind were revealed by topsoil stripping of the house footprint which was archaeologically sterile. In view of the entirely negative results of the watching brief project no further archaeological mitigation was recommended. <1>