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Excavation
Date 13 March 1987 - 24 April 1987
Event ID 1034183
Category Recording
Type Excavation
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In advance of proposed private house construction, a total of six trenches were excavated over four weeks in April in order to establish the general limits of the main abbey buildings and to clear the site of the new building of archaeological remains. The latter saw the excavation of the SW corner of the claustral ranges which were found to be almost completely robbed out, although there was evidence of substantial rebuilding during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Excavation to the N of the site revealed parts of the abbey church as well as evidence of a crude but extensive industrial platform, probably for iron working, lying to the N and W of the main abbey buildings.
Sponsor: Historic Buildings and Mouments
G Ewart 1987
Kirkdale Archaeology
