Excavation

Date 7 June 2010

Event ID 609946

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NS 81521 96977 (centred on)

A series of four test pits were excavated against the N, E and S walls of the church on 7 June 2010. The current church which dates from 1684 is undergoing structural repairs and the test pits were dug to allow a structural assessment of the foundations. The walls, of dressed rubble, were founded on fragmented and rounded small to large rubble of up to 0.7m in depth. Finds included a few sherds of late/post medieval pottery and some disarticulated human bone (reburied on site). The first record of a church on this site is in the charter of 1178, but no remains of walls pre-dating the 1684 church were identified.

Archive: RCAHMS

Funder: Brownriggs

Ray Cachart, Alder Archaeology Ltd.