Alternative Names Fey Field
Site type NO CLASS (EVENT)
Canmore ID 182406
Site Number NX44SW 79
NGR NX 4441 4027
Council DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Parish WHITHORN
Former Region DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Former District WIGTOWN
Former County WIGTOWNSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NX44SW 79 4441 4027

NX 4441 4027 A small-scale evaluation was undertaken in the SE corner of the Fey Field, to the SW of the medieval priory church, within the Scheduled area. The principal aim of the evaluation was to excavate a redundant utility trench and thereby investigate the nature of a large rectilinear resistance anomaly which had been identified during the course of earlier geophysical surveys. The service trench, however, was not present. Topsoil stripping revealed the outline of a robbed building, coincident with the geophysical anomaly, and several cut features, probably graves. Intrusive excavation of these features lay outwith the brief and the trenches were backfilled upon completion.
A full report has been lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsors: Whithorn Trust, Friends of Whithorn Trust, Mouswald Trust, Russell Trust.
C Lowe 2000.

Lowe, C (2000a) 'Fey Field, Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway (Whithorn parish), evaluation', Discovery Excav Scot, vol.1
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