Watching Brief
Date 6 October 1999 - 20 October 1999
Event ID 1000762
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1000762
NX 7492 4750 A watching brief was carried out at Dundrennan Abbey in October 1999 during the excavation of drain trenches. The first trench measured 82m long and was cut through the field separating the abbey burn and the abbey outbuildings at their SE corner. A second phase of pipe trenching was carried out 22m to the S of the earlier works, in order to remedy an incorrect alignment in the initial trench.
The excavations revealed the E extension of the monastic drain. The newly excavated section was 5m from the centre of the last surviving capstone partly uncovered in a previous excavation. The maximum visible width measured 1.6m N-S, and the whole was buried under 1.3m of debris at the W end and 0.25m of field topsoil at the E end.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
D Stewart 1999
Kirkdale Archaeology