Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 561203
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/561203
Accession notes held at the Wilton Lodge Museum, Hawick, recorded that nine oyster shells were recovered from a pit dug on the site of an alleged medieval monastic settlement at Nenthorn.
No monastic remains have been identified at Nenthorn, but since the church itself was in the possession of monks attached to Kelso Abbey, it is quite possible that the oyster shells were in fact recovered during digging operations at Nenthorn Old Church.
The oyster shells probably mark the site of a midden, where the resident clergy of Nenthorn dumped their domestic refuse.
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