ABSTRACT
Burials were found surrounding the church on all sides (Figures 6.1 and 6.2) and although only a small area was examined to the east, a cutting running east from the cemetery platform through the terracing towards the river revealed a terminus for burial at that point. In the area to the north of the church there was a well defined terminus for the burials, which was first marked with a shallow ditch and then with a drystone wall (see Chapter 7). To the north-west of the church, burial did not extend further than the scarped slope of the natural gravel, but this had been apparently reshaped several times, and since the burial of Sk294 had been truncated by the late enclosure (C946), others may have been lost between it and Sk183 and Sk271 when the scoop filled with rubble and the enclosure were constructed (see Chapter 8). In that case, the curving line of burials to the north-west may be illusory and the line of the scarp as shown on the resistance survey (Figures 3.2 and 3.3) could have been the north-western perimeter. Directly to the west of the church the burials extended down the slope and no terminus was found. Only a small area was examined to the south of the church (between north-south gridlines 185 and 210), but here burials were closely packed with many super-impositions and intercuttings. One area between grid-lines 195 and 200 was left unexcavated after the surface was taken off (because of time constraints), and it is likely also, in the most densely packed area to the south of the church, that not all the burials in the area opened were retrieved. There is indeed every possibility that the burial ground continued for some distance to the south (see perimeter survey, Chapter 3).
