Watching Brief

Date 12 April 2010

Event ID 882870

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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NT 650 204 (centred on)

A watching brief was undertaken on 12 April 2010 during the excavation of four small holes for new signs. Three were located around the cloister, with the fourth towards the SW corner of the Abbey Church. At the three locations where existing signs were being replaced the excavations revealed disturbed ground. The fourth trench was dug in previously undisturbed ground in the NW corner of the cloister, just to the E of the W gravel path around the cloister. This trench contained topsoil overlying deposits that probably relate to recent landscaping. The trenches’

basal rubble rich deposit may represent immediate postreformation demolition or later clearance.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Historic Scotland

D Murray 2010

OASIS Id: kirkdale1-279394