Geophysical Survey

Date 22 July 2013 - 23 October 2013

Event ID 994203

Category Recording

Type Geophysical Survey

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/994203

NT 587 340 A community archaeological investigation, supervised by GUARD, was undertaken 22 July – 23 October 2013. The geophysical survey examined the area of the early medieval monastic settlement of Old Melrose and St Cuthbert's Chapel. The survey located a possible structure and associated track/road, three linear features that may be old walls or field boundaries, an old track and the remains of a 20th-century enclosure. This adds significantly to the results of previous geophysical surveys, which had located a road, an oval or elliptical enclosure and at least four old walls or field boundaries. There are now a number of archaeological features, largely of unknown date, located at Old Melrose, which may relate to the Early Christian monastery that once stood here.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: Melrose Historical and Archaeological Association

Christine Rennie, GUARD Archaeology Ltd, 2013

(Source: DES)