The archaeologists discovered a range of features and structures that date from the Neolithic to the Early Middle Ages.

Two Iron Age huts and two possible corn-drying kilns from the early Medieval period were also found, plus pillboxes from World War II were recorded hear the area.

[4] GUARD also excavated some of the remains of the medieval village of Nether Gogar as part of that same tram line project.

There was a break in occupation in that area of Gogar during the mid-14th century, which the archaeologists believe could have been the result of the Black Death reducing the population during that time.

The charter gifted an estate consisting of the land at Gogar, Cousland and Pentland to Ralph de Graham, a knight whose family had moved from England to Scotland during the reign of David I (1124–53).

[6] The parish of Gogar is first mentioned in 1247, when the church was re-consecrated by Bishop David de Bernham of St Andrews.

We, being ignorant of the place, drew up, hoping to have engaged: but found no way feasible, by reason of the bogs and other difficulties.

We drew up our cannon, and did that day discharge two or three hundred great shot upon them; a considerable number they likewise returned to us; and this was all that passed from each to the other.

Pottery shards, rubbish pits, and animal bones were unearthed north of the A8, opposite the bank's headquarters.

[6] In 2005, the new headquarters of the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency was opened at Gogarbank Farm in farmland bordering the M8.

The most notable historical building is probably Castle Gogar, an A-Listed Scottish Baronial L-plan mansion.

It was built in 1625 by the master architect William Ayton for John Cowper, whose father had bought the estate in 1601, and his wife, Helen Skene of Hallyards Castle.