Archaeology Notes

Event ID 711461

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT18SE 7.01 1892 8266

(NT 1892 8266) Cell (NR)

OS 6" map, Fife (1967)

This cell is said to have been the home of a hermit in 1123. It appears to have been restored or rebuilt by the Canons of the Abbey in the 14th or 15th c. (J W Paterson 1950). Lying E-W, it is not quite rectangular, measuring on average 16' x 5 1/2' within freestone rubble walls which vary from 2' to 3 1/2' thick. It is approached from the S by a lintelled passage. In the 17thc, it is referred to as the "Deid House" or mortuary.

RCAHMS 1933, visited 1925.

The cell, as described, is in an excellent state of preservation; it has probably been restored.

Visited by OS (AC), 11 March 1959.