Watching Brief

Date 21 March 2000

Event ID 1028674

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1028674

A watching brief was carried out at Dundrennan Abbey while Historic Scotland personnel cut a series of post holes for a new fence line situated around the E end of the main monastic drain. The drain exits into the field above the Abbey Burn at a point between the steadings and the burial ground.

The fence line made up three sides of a rectangle with a total length of 32m. The line began with a 4m stretch running E-W from a point 8m from the N end of the steadings wall; the line then turned N for a further 20m before turning W for a final 8m at which point it joined the monastic wall 5m N of the medieval drain. The fence required 7 deep post holes and 26 shallow post holes, these last being set at 1m intervals between the larger holes.