Watching Brief

Date 18 March 2019 - 20 March 2019

Event ID 1084731

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084731

NO 11387 26527 Monitoring of the excavation of a cable trench, 18-20 March 2019, as part of the installation of a new solar panel array at Scone Palace (Canmore ID: 28190) resulted in the recovery of fragmentary, disarticulated human remains from a lawn between the NE side of the Palace and the Moot Hill. Remains included facial and cranial fragments of a disarticulated skull. No traces of grave cuts or coffin remains were apparent. C14 dating of the skull fragments is under consideration.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: Private individual

C Fyles ̶ Alder Archaeology Ltd

(Source: DES Vol 20)

OASIS ID alderarc1-348230