Archaeology Notes

Event ID 692716

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO88NE 3 8740 8551 to 8741 8552.

(NO 8740 8551) Burial Ground (NR) (Plague of 1608-1648)

OS 1/500 plan, (1864)

About 1842 two gravestones which had lain on a piece of waste ground were erected against a bank on the left of the path opposite the Bog Well.

One bore the inscription ".. Magnus Tailiour Seyman ... depairtit in November - ... of Pest ... Memento Mori 1608". The other commemorated two children who died in 1648, also of plague.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; Name Book 1864; F C Eeles 1897.

The gravestones are now set in, and form part of, the east wall of a public footpath at NO 8741 8552.

The site of the burial ground on the OS plan is now occupied by modern buildings and gardens.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (R D) 23 July 1965.