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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 666589
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/666589
NJ26SW 1.03 2221 6367
(NJ 2221 6307) Chapter House (NR)
OS 25"map (1871).
The Chapter House reconstructed in the 15th century, is the finest thing of its kind in Scotland. In the surviving ruins, and in the detached fragments assembled on the site, there is a wealth of moulded work, heraldic decoration, and figure sculpture, forming a notable conspectus of the medieval craftsman's art.
V G Childe and W D Simpson 1961.
As described and illustrated by V G Childe and W D Simpson 1961.
Visited by OS (R D L) 13 December 1962.
NJ 2211 6307 A watching brief was conducted in December 1999 in the cathedral chapter house (NMRS NJ26SW 1.03) while a cable trench was dug below the flagged floor, from the E side of the inner entrance to the chapter house, N to the central pillar and around to its W side. The flags appear to date to the late 15th-century remodelling of the chapter house, and were laid on a bedding of sand, gravel and crushed sandstone. No deposits below this were disturbed.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
P Sharman 2000
