Test Pit Survey

Date 29 July 2015

Event ID 1028149

Category Recording

Type Test Pit Survey

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The test pit evaluation established that the floor had been removed leaving a layer mortar and stone rubble. This had subsequently been covered by dumped deposits possibly excess soil from the digging of graves in the graveyard to the west of the church. A flush wall face exposed below the floor level in test pits at the east end of the church may indicate that there might have been a burial crypt at this end that later has been infilled. The crypt below the floor in the burial aisle to the south, has a barrel vault. It contains a lead coffin inside an outer wooden coffin set into a sub-rectangular shaft built into the crypt floor.

Information from Magnar Dalland (Headland Archaeology) August 2015. OASIS ID: headland1-220039