EDO6555 - Stapehill Abbey, Ferndown Town; excavation 2016

Terrain Archaeology undertook the identification and removal of all human remains beneath the floor of the former Refectory, originally the old Chapel of Holy Cross Abbey, Stapehill. Two graves were discovered and excavated. In the centre of the room was the grave of Sir Thomas Moore, 6th Baronet of Fawley, Berkshire, who died in 1807, aged 81 years old. His body appears to have been reburied in this location in the 1850s. The other grave contained the body of a young adult female, most likely one of the religious community. Her identity has not been determined. Both graves were cut through a robber trench, which may represent the line of the original old chapel west wall before the rebuilding and conversion into the refectory sometime between 1851 and 1861. Information from OASIS Online Form.Terrain Archaeology undertook the identification and removal of all human remains beneath the floor of the former Refectory, originally the old Chapel of Holy Cross Abbey, Stapehill. Two graves were discovered and excavated. In the centre of the room was the grave of Sir Thomas Moore, 6th Baronet of Fawley, Berkshire, who died in 1807, aged 81 years old. His body appears to have been reburied in this location in the 1850s. The other grave contained the body of a young adult female, most likely one of the religious community. Her identity has not been determined. Both graves were cut through a robber trench, which may represent the line of the original old chapel west wall before the rebuilding and conversion into the refectory sometime between 1851 and 1861.