Nenthorn Old Church
Midden (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Nenthorn Old Church
Classification Midden (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 57156
Site Number NT63NE 4.01
NGR NT 678 368
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/57156
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Nenthorn
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Berwickshire
Accession notes held at the Wilton Lodge Museum, Hawick, recorded that nine oyster shells were recovered from a pit dug on the site of an alleged medieval monastic settlement at Nenthorn.
No monastic remains have been identified at Nenthorn, but since the church itself was in the possession of monks attached to Kelso Abbey, it is quite possible that the oyster shells were in fact recovered during digging operations at Nenthorn Old Church.
The oyster shells probably mark the site of a midden, where the resident clergy of Nenthorn dumped their domestic refuse.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
NT63NE 4.01 678 368
'Nine oyster shells dug from a pit on the site of the medieval monastic house at Nenthorn' are in Wilton Lodge Museum, Hawick (HAKMG 4145). (There was no monastic house at Nenthorn; presumably the church, which belonged to Kelso Abbey, is the site intended.)
Museum Catalogue (typescript, compiled 1981).
