Excavation

Date 2007

Event ID 557681

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NS 971 764 Excavation to the N and E of the surviving 12th century gable of the nunnery church at Manuel found two N/S robber trenches 5m apart, which are believed to represent the W cloistral range. Further N a 1.2m wide wall foundation ran W/E for at least 38m, forming a terrace with extensive areas of cobbling to its N. Beyond that extensive plough damage had removed such surfaces. The wall and cobbling may be the remains of the N range, giving a cloister c26m square to the N of the church. Antiquarians believed that the cloister lay to

the S of the church, as is more usual, and that it had been washed away when the River Avon changed its course in the 18th century.

Area ground resistance and magnetometry surveys of a larger area, 100m square, showed the W/E wall and high magnetic anomalies at the W end of the field. W/E rig and furrow lines appear on the resistance plot.

Archive deposited with Falkirk Museum.

Funder: Falkirk Local History Society, Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society, Peter Morris, Historic Scotland.