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Abbot House is a former heritage centre located on the Maygate in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It lies in the shadow of Dunfermline's great abbey church. Located in a building with a 16th-century core,〔(Site Record for Dunfermline Abbey, 21 Maygate, Abbot's House Abbot Street; Dunfermline Heritage Centre; Abbot House Details )〕 Abbot House offers a view of Scotland's history from early beginnings through the 19th century, provided to visitors by guided tour. The heritage centre closed in August 2015 after attempts, by Abbot House Heritage Centre Trust, to find alternative funding for the centre failed. ==History== As the oldest surviving building within Dunfermline town, and a survivor of the Great Fire of Dunfermline in 1624,〔Russel Coleman, 'Excavations at the Abbot's House, Maygate, Dunfermline', Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal (vol 2: 1996), p.70〕 the building is indicative of the changing styles of Scottish architecture from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The earliest phase of the house was a two-story rectangular block of at least two storeys, built into the existing precinct wall. This house incorporated a small Z-plan tower house. The tour of the house reveals many early features of the changing form of the house, including crow-stepped gabling from an early exterior wall within the 'Industrial Room', and a number of excavated fireplaces and ranges now within the cafe area. Highlights include a frescoed wall painting, dated to 1571, which may depict scenes from a middle-Scots translation of Virgil, in the principal room of the first floor of the house, as well as a 14th-century tracery window. Trial excavations were begun in the garden of the house in 1988, followed by further work in 1992, and again in 1993 and 1994, excavating eleven separate areas in total.〔Russel Coleman, 'Excavations at the Abbot's House, Maygate, Dunfermline', Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal (vol 2: 1996), p.75〕 Excavations within the garden in the 1990s revealed various finds, including a very large dog, likely a deer or wolfhound, that measured approximately 86 cm at the shoulder.〔Russel Coleman, 'Excavations at the Abbot's House, Maygate, Dunfermline', Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal (vol 2: 1996), p.87〕 Other finds included a selection of medieval glazed and unglazed pottery sherds, costume fittings and personal accessories, and ironwork. Two ceramic 'counters', associated with medieval and early modern games and gambling, and a selection of clay pipes, were found on site. Early coinage, from the 14th to the 17th century, was also discovered.〔Nicholas M McQ Holmes, 'Excavations at the Abbot's House, Maygate, Dunfermline: Coins and a Jeton', Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal (vol 2: 1996), p.102〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abbot House, Dunfermline」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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