期刊名称：Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports. SAIR
电子版ISSN：1473-3803
出版年度：2001
卷号：1
页码：9-9
出版社：Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
摘要：The extensive ruins of Dundrennan Abbey lie to the
east of Dundrennan village, east of the A711, the
road between Dalbeattie and Kirkcudbright (illus 1).
The abbey buildings occupy an artificially enhanced
terrace to the north and west of a sharp bend in the
course of the Abbey Burn (illus2& illus 3). The selection
of this site exploited the naturally rising profile
of the west side of the valley, as well as the lowest
lying area of well drained ground within the valley.
The A711 road and the present village of
Dundrennan occupy a further terrace upslope from
the abbey site, and define the likely maximum extent
of the entire abbey precinct. The building in 1874 of
the present manse, now a private house with
gardens to the north and formerly an orchard to the
west, saw the clearance of abbey structures towards
the south-west of the complex. These post-medieval
buildings towards the southern end of the abbey
terrace appear to confirm the viable extent of ground
suitable for building, and probably closely echo the
