Excavation

Date 29 June 1998 - 3 July 1998

Event ID 1028666

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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Monitoring and Excavation during and after the removal of the cross & socket base stone. The project involved the preparation for, and the lifting of the cross and basal socket stone, and the excavation of the remaining material to subsoil horizons. Following this, extension trenches were excavated northwards from the NE corner, and westwards from the centre of the W baulk. The trench and sections were graphically and photographically recorded.

It was not possible to ascertain whether the cross had been moved from an original position in the 18th century, but it was clear that the 1925 work had in all likelihood involved the removal of the stone from its basal socket, and the clearing and re-grouting and pinning of the latter. The only dating evidence recovered comprised late 20th-century bottle glass, and later 18th- 19th-century stoneware (3 sherds) in the W sondage

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

A Radley & A Dunn 1998

Kirkdale Archaeology