Excavation

Date 1999

Event ID 928146

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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Four human skulls, found during the reconstruction of the Overgate Centre on the north side of the City Churches in 1999, had been redeposited in a pit, and were not in situ burials.

The bones exposed were human and probably medieval. They are not cemetery burials. It is likely that they have been redeposited (ie they have been disturbed in the past and reburied) either in the Victorian period or earlier this century.

Information from Dundee SMR; Coleman, R. 1999. Medieval Burial