ENN112824 - Sewardsley Priory, 2007 (GPR Survey)

The responses of the GPR survey largely mirror those obtained from the resistance survey, albeit with an increase in detail. Reflections associated with the chapel are relatively clear and were confirmed through excavation, which revealed that the two east-end walls relate to different phases of construction. A potential wall to the north may indicate a further section of the northern side chapel. Less defined responses may be of interest and could relate to a smaller annexed chapel structure as they lie in close proximity to in situ contemporary stone graves. However the lack of defining form and the limits of the survey area have precluded a more confident interpretation. Further south, a rectilinear anomaly was suggested to be a facet of the cloister area and, again, excavation over the corners confirmed this to be the case. Another anomaly corresponded with a north-south aligned wall identified through excavation which appeared to form part of an eastern range of buildings and which may imply that anomaly relates to that range of buildings and not the carriageway in to the property.