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Archaeological Evaluation

Date September 2004

Event ID 547046

Category Recording

Type Archaeological Evaluation

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/547046

Archaeological evaluation and engineering investigations along the W side of the Abbey Church Hall in September 2004 demonstrated that the substantial remains of a rubble and mortar structure exist within the northern part of the site, a building that appears on the 1832 town plan. Upstanding walls of this structure were found 0.25-0.5m below the surface, although the associated internal mortar floor and cobbling to the exterior (S) lay considerably deeper at 1.1m below the present surface. In the mid-19th century the structure was known as the 'burnt house', and was thus presumably ruined by that stage. Evidence for a conflagration was indeed found upon the floor surfaces.

The W wall of the structure formed part of a property boundary running at an angle to the existing (aligned NNW-SSE); this runs parallel to earlier property boundaries still existing immediately to the E - evidently part of the system of medieval/early post-medieval rigs within this part of the burgh.

These structural remains overlay deep stratified deposits, including levels of windblown sand.

Archive to be deposited in East Lothian SMR and the NMRS.

Sponsor: Abbey Church, North Berwick.

K Macfadyen 2004

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