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Archaeological Evaluation
Date November 2004
Event ID 547038
Category Recording
Type Archaeological Evaluation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/547038
NT 5541 8562 An evaluation was undertaken in November 2004 in advance of excavation for a new tunnel access between the Scottish Seabird Centre and the administration building on its W side.
The tunnel route cuts across the northernmost point of Anchor Green, the burial ground for St Andrew's Old Kirk, former parish church of North Berwick, now ruined.
In situ archaeological remains were found to exist in the western part of the evaluation area, within three of the trenches. Deposits consisted of redeposited graveyard material containing some charnel, mort-cloth pins and a fragment of white gritty pottery. This overlay a hard clay-earth surface formed over a bed of rough flags; no diagnostic finds, though possibly of medieval date. This in turn overlay an earlier cultural horizon of close similarity to one seen in previous excavations on the site (DES 2000, 27-8), and clearly pre-dating the graveyard deposition. This overlay buried topsoil horizons above bedrock, encountered at 1.2m below the surface.
Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.
Sponsor: Scottish Seabird Centre.
K Macfadyen 2004.
