Earth Resistance Survey

Date 27 April 2013

Event ID 993840

Category Recording

Type Earth Resistance Survey

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/993840

NT 53613 74731 A geophysical survey was undertaken on 27 April 2013, at the request of Haddington’s History Society, of a 2400m2 area of arable land at Abbeyhill Farm on the site of St Mary’s Nunnery. This was one of the largest Scottish nunneries, founded by Ada, Countess of Northumberland and Huntingdon, for Cistercian nuns, before 1159 and closed in 1621. The survey identified an L-shaped higher resistance anomaly located to the S of the graveyard measuring 28m E–W and 13m N–S at its widest point. Traces of possible outlying structures were also noted.

Archive: East Lothian HER and RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Russell Trust, Haddington’s History Society and Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society

Ian Hawkins, Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society, 2013

(Source: DES)