Abbeymill Farm, Burial Ground
Burial Ground (Post Medieval), Gravestone (17th Century)
Site Name Abbeymill Farm, Burial Ground
Classification Burial Ground (Post Medieval), Gravestone (17th Century)
Canmore ID 56585
Site Number NT57SW 9
NGR NT 5348 7469
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/56585
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Haddington
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT57SW 9 5348 7469.
(NT 5348 7469) Burial Ground (NR)
OS 6" map (1969)
This burial ground lies within an oblong wooded enclosure; at its E end are two greatly weathered table stones, with illegible inscriptions, and on the S is a 17th century headstone.
The Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] states that this burial ground was associated with the nearby St Mary's Nunnery (NT57SW 10).
RCAHMS 1924, visited 1913; Name Book 1853
The enclosing wall of the burial ground has been demolished, leaving a long, mutilated, low mound rising above the surrounding ground level. The burial ground is wooded; the stones mentioned above are still in evidence.
Visited by OS (BS) 7 Julu 1975.
Field Visit (1 July 1913)
Some 70 yards east of the Abbey Farm (RCAHMS 1924, No. 79) in an oblong wooded enclosure is a graveyard in a state of desolation. At the eastern end are two table stones greatly weathered, with illegible inscriptions. On the south is a 17th century headstone bearing the funereal insignia of the period.
RCAHMS 1924, 1 July 1913.
Geophysical Survey (6 February 2022)
NT 5348 7468 On 6 February 2022 a further six 20 x 20m grids (2400m2) were surveyed to the N and E of the previous survey of 2013 on an arable field S of the burial ground of St Mary’s Convent. A rectangular high resistance anomaly to the N of the 2013 survey area may represent part of another possible structure associated with an early Christian abbey or convent. A rectangular anomaly to the SE may be the location of a doocot.
Archive: NRHE and East Lothian Council HER
Funder: Haddington’s History Society, Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society, Private individual
Ian Hawkins – Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society
(Source: DES Volume 23)
