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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 691870
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/691870
NO64SW 10 6262 4000.
See also NO64SW 9.00.
In 1861 and again in 1889 during improvements on the Hospitalfield Estate a large number of human skeletons were discovered on a sandy hillock immediately E of Hospitalfield Lodge. Excavations revealed the burials to lie in rows, the skeletons fully extended, with the heads to the SW. Between 100 and 120 inhumations were recovered, but no trace of either coffin or shroud was identified. The foundations of a building to the SE of the burial ground were discovered during the same operation, and were thought to be the foundations of the Chapel of St John, which was associated with the hospital described on NO64SW 9, and appears in records in 1464 and 1485.
A Jervise 1864; J Brodie 1904; I B Cowan and D E Easson 1976; SBS Arbroath 1982.
