Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of an area to the South East of the Abbey Church of Dunfermline Abbey For Dr Michael Penman University of Stirling (19th September 2019)

Abstract

These are the results of a ground-penetrating radar pilot survey in search of the remains of the over-built monastic choir of the medieval Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland. This third stage surveyed the Abbey Church south transept exteriors, identifying possible architectural features at the medieval depths. This work was undertaken on 21st-22nd August 2019 by Erica Carrick Utsi of EMC Radar Consulting assisted by Mr Alex Birtwistle of Atlas Geophysical and Dr Michael Penman of the University of Stirling. The work was commissioned by Dr Penman as part of his research into the medieval royal mausoleum of Dunfermline, with the kind permission of the Abbey Church of Dunfermline Kirk Session, Fife Council and Historic Environment Scotland, and funded by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities of the University of Stirling. Erica Utsi is the GPR data report's sole author and retains copyright of its underlying IP and scan data. These results, and those reporting two further pilot stage surveys of 2016 and 2017 (also written by Erica Utsi, available through this repository and the websites of Dunfermline Abbey Church and Historic Environment Scotland [CANMORE database]), are in turn interpreted in our project-end report (also available through these repositories): M. Penman and E.C. Utsi, In Search of the Royal Mausoleum at the Benedictine Abbey of Dunfermline, Fife: Medieval Liturgy, Antiquarianism and a Ground-Penetrating Radar Pilot Survey, 2016- 19 (2020).