Watching Brief

Date 1993

Event ID 550375

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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A watching brief was undertaken by Scotia Archaeology Limited during the excavation of narrow trenches to accommodate the cables of an external lighting system at the abbey. To the N of the church several recumbent post-Reformation grave slabs were uncovered, as were two possible walls and what appeared to be a paved area comprising mainly fire-reddened, snadstone flags. Trenching on the S side of the church, along Maonastry Street and just inside Pittencrieff park was all through recently disturbed ground and nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered in those areas.

Sponsors: Lighting Design Partnership, Dunfermline District Council.

A Barlow 1993.