Archaeology Notes

Event ID 690559

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO51NW 38 515 166

See also NO51NW 7.

(Area centred NO 5156 1666) Long cist cemetery found at Kirkheugh of St Andrews; 4 plus graves, 'in and about the ruined chapel'.

A S Henshall 1958

No further information found during field investigation.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 28 May 1964

150 skeletons were recovered during excavation.

J Wordsworth 1980.

Over 300 skeletons of both sexes were uncovered. Apart from one wood coffin and 3 stone long-cists, all the bodies were simple inhumations. Radiocarbon dating indicates that the cemetery was first used in the 9th century AD, through to the Reformation.

J Wordsworth 1981.