Dunfermline, St Margaret's Street, Dunfermline Abbey
No Class (Event)
Site Name Dunfermline, St Margaret's Street, Dunfermline Abbey
Classification No Class (Event)
Canmore ID 81275
Site Number NT08NE 1.13
NGR NT 089 872
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81275
- Council Fife
- Parish Dunfermline
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT08NE 1.13 089 872
A watching brief was undertaken by Scotia Archaeology Limited during the excavation of narrow trenches to accommodate the cables of an external lighting system at the abbey. To the N of the church several recumbent post-Reformation grave slabs were uncovered, as were two possible walls and what appeared to be a paved area comprising mainly fire-reddened, snadstone flags. Trenching on the S side of the church, along Maonastry Street and just inside Pittencrieff park was all through recently disturbed ground and nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered in those areas.
Sponsors: Lighting Design Partnership, Dunfermline District Council.
A Barlow 1993.
Watching Brief (1993)
A watching brief was undertaken by Scotia Archaeology Limited during the excavation of narrow trenches to accommodate the cables of an external lighting system at the abbey. To the N of the church several recumbent post-Reformation grave slabs were uncovered, as were two possible walls and what appeared to be a paved area comprising mainly fire-reddened, snadstone flags. Trenching on the S side of the church, along Maonastry Street and just inside Pittencrieff park was all through recently disturbed ground and nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered in those areas.
Sponsors: Lighting Design Partnership, Dunfermline District Council.
A Barlow 1993.
