SOME FURTHER NOTES ON BURTON ABBEY PLAN, 36 
Abbey being incorrect, the excavations lately made go to prove you 
have in the Vol. III, part 3, of your Transactions, a ground 
plan that can be relied upon, so far as it goes; and that any future 
light that can be thrown upon the plan will be in the grounds of the 
house known as the Abbey, now occupied by Mr, Blackhall. For 
here could be settled the length of the Chapter House, and, may 
be, the burial places of the early Abbots; Nicholas, 12th Abbot, 
1188-1197, being the first buried in the Church. Also the Under- 
croft of the Dorter, the situation of the Rere Dorter, and the plan 
of the Farmery. All of them, especially the latter, most interesting. 
But to return to the excavations: the first trial was such a very wet 
day that the work had to be abandoned. On the second occasion, an 
attempt was made to find again the foundations that were first seen, 
and this will show how very important it is in work of this sort that 
measurements should be taken and results plotted at once, and 
nothing left to memory, for a lot of time was spent in trying to find 
these which were said to be somewhere at the East end of the Parish 
Church ; but they could not be recovered. We next moved to the 
South-West end of the Churchyard wall, where it abuts against the 
‘Market place. This point is marked with the figure 4 on the general 
Plan of the Abbey, and illustrated on Plate II, Fig. 1, in Vol. III, 
part 3. This photograph was taken at the time of the original 
excavations, and with figures 5 and 6 on the General Plan gave me 
the three points upon which I ventured to base my plan, with, as it 
proves, correct results. 
_ On the General Plan at Fig. 4 is a line in front of the thick line, 
de noting the main wall of the Church. Had I drawn my West front 
on that, instead of keeping it on that wall at the N.W. corner, I 
Should have been perfectly right. This would have thrown the 
N.w. angle of the N. Transept outside the line of the North wall 
of the present Church, where we find traces of it, again showing 
_ how very important each little point is, 
