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Trial excavation and site of discovery of cross-slab fragments. The proposal to replace the path leading to the west side of the church with a vehicular road was preceded by an archaeological investigation of the area by Scotia Archaeology Limited in 1995. Within a trench measuring 15.5m east-west by 3m wide and a northward extension measuring 3.5m by 2.5m were uncovered six courses of a 1.25m-wide, clay-bonded, rubble wall. That wall is thought to have formed the south boundary of the churchyard before the extant church was built in 1787. Eleven of the stones of this wall were carved fragments. The fragments all appear to have been deliberately broken. In addition one complete cross-slab was discovered. (See NO35SE0020 for further details of all of the sculptured stones discovered around the Old Parish Church). To the immediate north of the wall were the lower courses of three walls, forming a U-shaped arrangement. Within the space between these walls were the disarticulated skeletons of at least 15 individuals.
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NO35SE0089 - KIRRIEMUIR OLD PARISH CHURCH