Watching Brief

Date 23 September 2019 - 19 March 2020

Event ID 1112753

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1112753

NO 80150 74653 A watching brief and subsequent excavations of human skeletal remains took place, September 2019 to March 2020, in advance of a small building extension for a disabled toilet and associated drainage works. The articulated burials (SK1–4) were Christian burials placed in an E–W extended supine orientation. They are the remains of two ‘lairs’; it is possible that there were other burials above and adjacent to these which were removed when the extension was built onto the church in the late 19th or early 20th century. The ‘lairs’ excavated align with current gravestones dated to the late 19th century and it is thought that burials SK1–4 also date to that period. Disarticulated bone recovered is usual for a busy medieval and post-medieval graveyard.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: The Church of Scotland

Alison Cameron and Robert Lenfert – Cameron Archaeology

(Source: DES Vol 21)

OASIS ID: camerona1-390190 (A Cameron and R Lenfert) 2020