Archaeology Notes

Event ID 744015

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/744015

NO50SE 57 57 04.

Kilrenny: a burgh of regality chartered in 1578; enrolled (apparently in error) as a royal burgh in 1592, and continued to possess that status.

G S Pryde 1965.

NO 575 048 A programme of topographic survey, geophysical survey and fieldwalking took place in October to examine the possibility that a monastic precinct outer ditch or vallum survived around the village of Kilrenny, as previously proposed (PSAS 1998, 495-514).

The geophysical results have still to be fully analysed, but while there is clearly rig and furrow, old field boundaries and structures which may be of medieval date, there seems to be no unequivocal evidence for a ditch. The fieldwalking produced an assemblage of medieval pottery and later material from a field to the N of the village, at NO 575 050.

A report will be lodged with the NMRS.

Sponsors: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Russell Trust.

H F James 2000