Watching Brief
Date 15 May 2017 - 6 September 2017
Event ID 1047998
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1047998
GUARD Archaeology Ltd were commissioned by Crosbie Stonecraft to undertake an archaeological watching brief during the down taking of part of an existing graveyard wall and excavation of a foundation trench to facilitate the construction of a new wall at Prestongrange church, Prestonpans, East Lothian. Seven dressed stones, re-used building stones, and a seventeenth century gravestone dated 1646, were recovered from the fabric of the wall during down taking. Below the wall evidence of an earlier clay bonded wall was discovered. Large fragments of animal long bone were recovered, but not retained, from topsoil during excavation of the foundation trench for the new wall, no human bone was encountered during the course of the work.
Information from OASIS ID: guardarc1-295198 (A Hunter Blair) 2017