Watching Brief

Date August 2012

Event ID 993393

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/993393

NB 48469 32260 A programme of archaeological work was carried out in August 2012 during conservation work which required the lifting of two upstanding stone slabs and five recumbent stone slabs. No features, deposits or artefacts of archaeological significance were found in association with any of the stones, but a small quantity of disarticulated human bone was recovered and reinterred at or close to its original location. A piece of cranium visible in the section left by Stone 4 was left in situ and reburied. A trial trench excavated in the NW corner of the main chapel identified numerous rounded to sub-angular stones immediately below the surface. The purpose of these stones is unclear, but there was no indication that they served any structural function.

Archive: CNES SMR and RCAHMS

Funder: Nicolas Boyes Stone Conservation on behalf of Urras Eaglais na h-Aoidhe

Magnus Kirby, CFA Archaeology Ltd

2012