TY - JOUR AU - Leslie Alcock AU - Elizabeth Alcock AU - Sally Foster PY - 1987/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Reconnaissance excavations on early historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84: 1, excavations near St Abb's Head, Berwickshire, 1980 JF - Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland JA - PSAS VL - 116 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.9750/PSAS.116.255.279 UR - http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/psas/article/view/9270 AB - The headland known as St Abb's Nunnery was shown to bear a late med secular hall and enclosing wall, identifiable as Rampart Hall. The preferred site for the 7th century Anglian monastery is Kirk Hall, where a massive turf bank may be identified as the monastic vallum. This had been preceded by two timber palisades, one of them 14C-dated to 7th-8th centuries AD. Au(adp) ER -