Watching Brief

Date 13 November 2012 - 22 January 2013

Event ID 1176805

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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HY 44903 10884 A watching brief involved the monitoring of 10 trenches located to position new lightning conductors at places around the Cathedral on the 13th and 14th of November 2012 and the 22nd January 2013, all less than 2m long and located in the at the west front of St Magnus Cathedral and in the cemetery. Trenches revealed the face of the foundations courses on St Magnus Cathedral’s West Front. Otherwise trenches within the cemetery mainly contained unsorted deposits. Within these layers were fragments of mortar, sandstone and infrequent oyster shell fragments, possibly originating from the Cathedral fabric.

P. Edwards

(Source: OASIS ID: orkneyre1-136228)