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Old Deer, Deer Parish Church
Church (18th Century) (1788)
Site Name Old Deer, Deer Parish Church
Classification Church (18th Century) (1788)
Canmore ID 20558
Site Number NJ94NE 3
NGR NJ 97880 47679
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20558
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Old Deer
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ94NE 3.00 97880 47679
NJ94NE 3.01 97910 47685
NMRS REFERENCE:
Old Deer Parish Church.
NMRS F.A.M. MacDonald Collection. c. 1926 - 2 sheets of plans.
Ground Penetrating Radar (2012)
A GPR survey was undertaken by Rose Geophysical Consultants within the Old Parish Church in an attempt to trace any continuation of a wall excavated in the chancel in 2011. Tentative interpretation of the results suggests the possibility of a continuation of the wall to the E with a return wall to the N, but this is far from conclusive.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended). Report and photographs: Aberdeenshire Council SMR
Funder: Book of Deer Project
HK Murray, Murray Archaeological Services Ltd
JC Murray,
2012
Excavation (3 September 2016 - 16 September 2016)
NJ 978 476 Twenty-six archaeologists, students and local volunteers took part in this community excavation, 3–16 September 2016, which was funded by Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service. Sixteen trenches were located in Old Deer village, the Episcopal Church and the Parish Church graveyard.
The trenches in the village revealed the remains of cottages at 14 Abbey Street including a cobbled area, and a cobbled yard or roadway between 8–10 Abbey Street and the Kemp Hall, an area which appears to have been a track or road between the buildings. Nothing earlier than the post-medieval
structures was recorded in these trenches. In the garden of 8–10 Abbey Street 19th- to 20th-century deposits were recorded to a depth of 1m, although a 17th-century coin was recovered.
At the rear of the Episcopalian Church the ground had been prone to flooding and the area had been raised in height using stony rubble sealed with clay, but no other deposits were found and no finds earlier than the 19th century were recovered.
Eleven trenches were excavated in the Parish Church graveyard to determine the make-up of the ground. Trenches next to the medieval ruin contained large amounts of human bone (all reburied), suggesting that they were within the medieval graveyard. Other trenches contained domestic and building rubble. The robber trench of the 12th-century church was excavated, but no evidence of a deep geophysical anomaly was identified. No finds or other evidence that this is the site of the early monastery of Deer have been recovered during the three seasons of archaeological work within the graveyard.
Archive: NRHE
Funder: Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service
Alison Cameron – Cameron Archaeology
(Source: DES)
OASIS ID: camerona1-266642
