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Comrie, Dunira Street, White Kirk

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Site Name Comrie, Dunira Street, White Kirk

Classification No Class (Event)

Canmore ID 185892

Site Number NN72SE 106

NGR NN 772 219

NGR Description NN c. 772 219

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Comrie (Perth And Kinross)
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NN72SE 106 c. 772 219

NN 772 219 During November 1999, a small excavation and a watching brief were carried out inside the Comrie Community Centre, the former White Church, which was constructed in 1805 on the site of an earlier church. The watching brief revealed some structural evidence for the White Church and recovered disarticulated human bone from the pre-White Church burial ground deposits. Four articulated burials were also recorded. A fragment of transom, probably from an earlier church, was found reused in a dwarf wall for the White Church floor. The human remains were later re-interred in the graveyard on the S side of the church.

Some of the artefacts recovered from the graveyard deposits represent coffin fittings and furnishings, while others provide clues to burial attire and burial practice. The coffins recorded during the investigation were of a flat-lidded, single break type, with grips placed at intervals around their sides. Ten coins were also recovered, mainly from the graveyard soil in close association with the coffined burials.

Sponsor: Comrie Community Centre Committee.

R Cachart and A Cox 2000.

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