Excavation

Date 4 March 1996 - 8 March 1996

Event ID 1000760

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NX 7492 4750 Six trenches were excavated by Kirkdale Archaeology in the field lying to the E of the abbey after the completion of a resistivity survey. Only a small number of anomalies were located which could not be accounted for as rig and furrow remains. The remaining anomalies were tested by trial trenching, and proved to be ambiguous, due to the stony nature of the subsoil. At the same time, a survey was made of a bridge over the Abbey Burn, to the NE of the survey area. The bridge proved to be post-monastic, and probably post-medieval in date.

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

G Ewart 1996