Linlithgow, St Michael's Church
Human Remains (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Linlithgow, St Michael's Church
Classification Human Remains (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 134366
Site Number NT07NW 14.02
NGR NT 002 772
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/134366
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Linlithgow
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
NT07NW 14.02 002 772
NT 002 772 Archaeological assessment by AOC (Scotland) Ltd of a site at the Kirkgate, Linlithgow was conducted when small quantities of human skeletal remains were exposed at two locations in the course of road resurfacing works. These proved to be disturbed, redeposited remains lying (a) within the foundation trench of the cemetary wall which borders the Kirkgate on the E side and (b) in redeposited soil layers, c0.5m beneath the present road surface, near the doorway of a cottage at No. 3, Kirkgate. No in situ burials were found and there is no evidence that the parish cemetery formerly extended beyond the present churchyard wall.
Elsewhere on the site, a group of assorted fills is tentatively interpreted as evidence for a back-filled enclosing ditch, outwith the late medieval gate-house to the Palace yard.
Sponsor: West Lothian District Council
J O'Sullivan 1995.
Excavation (1995)
NT 002 772 Archaeological assessment by AOC (Scotland) Ltd of a site at the Kirkgate, Linlithgow was conducted when small quantities of human skeletal remains were exposed at two locations in the course of road resurfacing works. These proved to be disturbed, redeposited remains lying (a) within the foundation trench of the cemetary wall which borders the Kirkgate on the E side and (b) in redeposited soil layers, c0.5m beneath the present road surface, near the doorway of a cottage at No. 3, Kirkgate. No in situ burials were found and there is no evidence that the parish cemetery formerly extended beyond the present churchyard wall.
Elsewhere on the site, a group of assorted fills is tentatively interpreted as evidence for a back-filled enclosing ditch, outwith the late medieval gate-house to the Palace yard.
Sponsor: West Lothian District Council
J O'Sullivan 1995.
