East Kirk of St Nicholas dig May 2008
Alison Cameron writes:
May has been very busy for the Archaeological Unit. As some of you know Carmen Cuenca-Garcia completed a Ground Penetrating radar survey of Drum’s Aisle and the crossing beneath the tower. Carmen worked on the excavation in 2006 and is currently studying for a MSc in Archaeological Prospection at the University of Bradford. She is carrying out the radar survey and interpreting the results for her thesis. She hopes to find evidence of the 12th-century church that we found on the dig and add to the information we have about the earliest church, the apsidal east end of a church that may date to the late 11th or early 12th century.
Over 150 people visited over the two days and we talked to many visitors about the whole project and the radar survey. Her report will be available by September and we hope that she will do a talk about this work. Watch this space for details.
Margot Wright, Conservator at Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen will be writing the June web blog. Margot is conserving the thousands of fragile metal, wood, textile, leather and glass finds from the dig and will be updating us on what she has discovered.
She is contacting a textile conservator who will conserve and report on the fabric, including the two complete hats, we excavated. We hope to feature this work in a web blog later in the summer.
For further details, please contact judiths@aberdeencity.gov.uk
East Kirk of St Nicholas March 2008
