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Watching Brief
Date 3 April 2000
Event ID 1029987
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1029987
A brief excavation with archaeological monitoring was carried out on 3rd April 2000 at Lincluden Collegiate Church, Dumfriesshire. The purpose of the excavation was to create the settings for two metal gate posts set within the length of an already existing perimeter fence.
The site of the gate post excavations consisted of a small flat platform area on the E side of the hill which dominates the area just to the E of the Collegiate Church. The gate was to be positioned along the N-S aligned section of the existing metal perimeter fence at a point approximately 11m N of the SE corner of the fence.
The new gate posts required two identical holes measuring 1m E-W by 350mm N-S with a depth of 800mm. One hole was 10.6m from the SE corner of the fence line and the other at 12.2m, a separation of 1.6m.
Both holes were hand dug by MCU to the required depth without hitting masonry. The horizons exposed in the excavations consisted of 300mm of medium brown topsoil lying directly on 500mm of pink silty clay. There were no visible features or finds in either of the holes.
The area of the post excavations seems to have been landscaped at some period which may explain the way the topsoil lies directly on the natural clay without the presence of an intervening subsoil.
