Watching Brief

Date 16 May 2012 - 24 May 2012

Event ID 992982

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/992982

NT 2694 7404 A watching brief was carried out 16–24 May 2012 on a small excavation for a tree in the N garden. The area mostly contained deposits of dumped material, which had been used for levelling and landscaping. A substantial amount of bone, some of it human, was recorded, along with a large amount of mortar and some sandstone rubble. Late medieval pottery and 19th-century finds were also recorded. It is possible that material was dumped in this area during landscaping of the ruinous E end of the abbey in the early 19th century, and probable that the source of the bone was the abbey cemetery, which lies to the N of the abbey.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Historic Scotland

Information from David Murray (Kirkdale Archaeology) July 2012. OASIS ID - kirkdale1-310844

2012