Excavation

Date 2011

Event ID 962057

Category Recording

Type Excavation

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962057

NJ 97910 47685 (church) and NJ 9777 4769 (centre of village) As part of the Book of Deer Project a community excavation opened 14 evaluation trenches in the village of Old Deer to assess the possible survival of remains associated with the early medieval monastery of Deer. The results indicate that a bank regarded as a possible enclosure associated with the early monastery is of probable 19th-century date. Finds of 14th- and 15th-century pottery in test pits in gardens suggest the presence of a settlement associated with the 13th- to 15th-century Old Parish Church. A 2 x 1m excavation within the chancel of the Old Parish Church identified an anomaly, recorded during a previous geophysical survey, as a wall that appeared to predate a floor level associated with the 15th-century chancel arch.

Reports: Aberdeenshire Council SMR, Historic Scotland and RCAHMS

Funder: Book of Deer Project

Murray Archaeological Services Ltd, 2011