Day 360 of 365 Photo Challenge. Rutherglen Town Hall was constructed in the mid-19th century in the Scottish Baronial style and was re-opened in 2005 following a £12.5million refurbishment. Following its successful renovation, the Town Hall is now a premier venue for arts and cultural activities and exhibitions. The Grand Hall - with its stained glass windows and barrel-vaulted ceiling - is a striking location for the majority of performances. There is a varied schedule of events throughout the year. The demolition of a 1967 office block extension at the rear of Rutherglen Town Hall required an archaeological watching brief. The excavation by JCB of four linking drainage trenches and associated doglegs was monitored between May and June 1999. No archaeological features of medieval date were encountered: the only features being of modern origin. An evaluation was undertaken of the archaeological potential of the site of Rutherglen Town Hall (NMRS NS66SW 73.00), ahead of redevelopment of the site which lies in the heart of Scotland's first royal burgh. Five trenches covering a total area of 74m sq were excavated to a maximum depth of 2.4m. The trenches were located both within the extant Victorian Town Hall building and externally, where a 1967 extension had been demolished in 1999. The excavations produced mostly 19th and 20th-century site levelling and construction evidence. A medieval garden soil, which produced a sherd of 14th-century Scottish White Gritty Ware and burnt daub, survives under the E wing of the Town Hall. A truncated pit also produced a sherd of the same fabric, and a further sherd was unstratified. Two sherds of post-medieval reduced ware were also recovered from a predominantly 19th-century levelling deposit. #glasgow #scotland #peoplemakeglasgow #visitglasgow #photooftheday #glasgow2019 #photography #365daychallenge #boxingday #rutherglen #rutherglentownhall #townhall #clocktower (at Rutherglen Town Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6jdvMQhS4z/?igshid=j19bh63klaeo
