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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 792737
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/792737
NT26NE 134.00 27512 69526
NT26NE 134.01 27529 69497 Session House
NT26NE 134.02 27546 69520 Churchyard
NT 2751 69526 A programme of archaeological work was carried out in June-July 2006 prior to and during the excavation of a trench to allow an electrical supply to be taken from Liberton Kirk (NT26NE 134.00) across the cemetery to the Counting House. Four test-pits (0.5 x 0.5-1.0 x 0.4m) were excavated on the proposed line of the cable trench to determine the depth of articulated skeletal remains. The soil profile consisted of a deposit of thin topsoil, containing the occasional fragment of disarticulated human bone, overlying a mixed subsoil containing a slightly higher concentration of disarticulated human bone. Disarticulated human bone was found in three test pits and pottery of 14th/15th- and 19th-century date was recovered from disturbed silty soil in TP1. No articulated human remains were identified within the first 0.4m of the graveyard soils. All the disarticulated remains that were recovered were reburied, with a short ceremony, in TP2 to the side of the cable track.
The archive will be deposited with NMRS and CECAS.
Sponsor: the Kirk Session of Liberton Kirk
B Glendinning, 2006.
