Falkirk, High Street, Falkirk Old Parish Church, Churchyard
Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Churchyard (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Falkirk, High Street, Falkirk Old Parish Church, Churchyard
Classification Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Churchyard (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 221658
Site Number NS87NE 147
NGR NS 88739 79985
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/221658
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Falkirk
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS87NE 147.00 88739 89985
NS87NE 147.01 88700 79989 Gate
NS88SE 18.00 88729 80025 Falkirk Old Parish Church
Watching Brief (9 December 2009)
NS 8875 8000 (centred on) A watching brief was carried out, 9 December 2009, during the excavation of two small test pits in the churchyard of Falkirk Old Parish Church, in advance of town centre regeneration work. A previous cobble road surface and burial ground soil were recorded, but the excavations were not deep enough to reach the base of the burial ground soil or to disturb any in situ burials. Some small fragments of bone were reburied on site. Nothing else of archaeological significance was found.
Archive: RCAHMS
Funder: Ironside Farrar on behalf of Falkirk Council
Ray Cachart – Alder Archaeology Ltd
Watching Brief (9 June 2010 - 21 February 2011)
Due to the potential for groundworks within the Old Parish Churchyard in Falkirk to encounter graves, human remains, grave-slabs and headstones dating from as early as the medieval period, an archaeological watching brief was undertaken by GUARD Archaeology Ltd for the Falkirk Town Regeneration works. The watching brief encountered a number of walls, some fragments of early modern gravestones and a substantial amount of disarticulated human bones. The human bones were re-interred at NS 887800 within the graveyard at the completion of the groundworks.
Information from Oasis (guardarc1-95588) 5 September 2013
