Watching Brief

Date 15 July 2011

Event ID 934413

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

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NT 5914 3172 A watching brief was carried out on 15 June 2011 during the excavation of a small trench for a gravestone in the church of Dryburgh Abbey. An earlier excavation at this location in 2009 (Event ID: 609231) had recorded a sequence of human burials, as well as a mass of disarticulated bone, much of it human. The 2011 excavation revealed the presence of considerable quantities of bone, much of it doubtless human, although there was no indication that any of it was from an in situ articulated burial. This confirmed the findings of the earlier work, which indicated that the site contains a complicated sequence of inhumations, with later burials disturbing earlier ones. The fragments of reddish sandstone recorded were probably derived from the demolished Abbey Church.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Historic Scotland

Kirkdale Archaeology, 2011

Information also reported in Oasis (kirkdale1-123634) 20 August 2012