Reconnaissance excavations on early historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84: 1, excavations near St Abb's Head, Berwickshire, 1980

Abstract

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)