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Watching Brief

Date 17 July 2007 - 11 October 2007

Event ID 557445

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/557445

NT 2564 7326 A watching brief was undertaken between July and October 2007 during the upgrading of paths in Greyfriars Kirkyard. A small and very mixed human bone assemblage was recovered from redeposited contexts, most of it from adult males and females. An assemblage of artefacts dating from the medieval period to the 20th century was also recovered. Many of these were funerary, including coffin fittings, a shroud pin and a terracotta shield which presumably once adorned a family tomb, but there were also objects which would normally be interpreted as domestic refuse, such as pottery, bottle glass and animal bone. A photographic record of individual graves and family grave plots was also made.

Archive to be deposited with RCAHMS.

Funder: City of Edinburgh Council.

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