Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• REES, THOMAS

Titel

Excavation of a post-medieval chapel and graveyard at Cille Bhrea, Lemlair, Highland

Ist Teil von

• Post-medieval archaeology, 2004-01, Vol.38 (1), p.181-209

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In response to the coastal erosion of the eastern end of Cille Bhrea chapel and graveyard, which had exposed human skeletal material, AOC Archaeology were commissioned by Historic Scotland to excavate the elements of this medieval and post-medieval church and graveyard at risk from erosion over the next couple of decades. The 1998 excavations at Cille Bhrea recovered information on a sequence of 50 graves along the eroding edge of the Cromarty Firth. The fabric of the chapel was also exposed, recorded and the very eastern limit of the chapel excavated. Pottery recovered from the site indicated activity during the 12th to 15th centuries, while metalwork from the graves demonstrates activity from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Seven radiometric dates from skeletal material support 17th- to 19th-century dates for burials. The surviving chapel fabric relates principally to the renewal of the structure in the 17th century as a mausoleum for the Munros of Foulis.