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A watching brief was carried out by Cameron Archaeology during ground-breaking works for new drainage and paths between the 14th and 30th March 2022 and 13th and 15th November 2023. The ground around St Vigean's Parish Hall and the Church Session House had been heavily disturbed by previous drainage works and rubble had been used to level areas around the buildings. A stone-lined culvert aligned north-south was located in Trench 1 on open ground south-southeast of St Vigean's Parish Hall. A silt filled feature alongside Brothock Water proved to be a natural channel. Fragments of disarticulated bone were recovered from all of the trenches cut within St Vigean's graveyard (NO64SW0134). This was not unexpected given the prolonged usage of the site and the number of phases of alteration to the structure of the church which changed the footprint of the building and resulted in disturbance of burials. All bone was reinterred within the trenches. Several pieces of worked masonry were recovered from Trench 5 (east of the Session House) and Trench 5 (within the churchyard), including from the latter a fragment of a red sandstone stoop which was probably removed from the structure during one of the periods of modification. Other finds comprised clay pipe fragments (including one moulded to resemble a twig, a clay pipe partial bowl with fish mark, and a complete clay pipe bowl) and 19th century pottery sherds from trenched north and east of the Session House.
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NO64SW0629 - ST VIGEAN'S PARISH CHURCH