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Field Visit
Date 1998
Event ID 546293
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/546293
NT 5486 3417 A trench already excavated by the Historic Scotland squad, to the SW of the abbey, was recorded. A number of architectural fragments and hand-made floor tiles had been reported from this trench.
A surprisingly long sequence was observed in this trench, including a cobbled surface, a wall footing and the wall construction cut. Other deposits, all apparently post-dating the wall, may represent dumps of levelling material.
The architectural fragments are evidently from the abbey, the large number of hand-made floor tiles are likely to be from the same source.
