Watching Brief

Date 2005

Event ID 1000765

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1000765

NX 7489 4750 A watching brief was undertaken during the excavation of a drainage trench along the W frontage of the abbey church and the W range of the cloister. The machine-cut N-S aligned trench would stretch from the main entrance to the abbey church southwards for 50.5m before tying into the local main drain near the E entrance to the Maitland House gardens.

The extensive robbing of the abbey appears to have removed peripheral structures almost entirely. The site of the narthex in particular, half of which was trenched by these works, appears to have been almost entirely robbed away, with internal levels removed down to natural deposits by stone salvage and modern drain insertions. No structures or original features other than those already visible were exposed by this extensive operation. Archive to be deposited in NMRS.

Sponsors: HS , Kilmadock Development Trust.

G Ewart 2005