Archaeologists have spent the summer excavating Paisley abbey’s drain, uncovering a wellpreserved medieval archway where the drain flowed into the River Cart
It was already known where Scotland’s finest and bestpreserved medieval tunnel lies buried beneath Paisley town centre – but the centuries-old mystery of where it ended had never been solved until now.
A team of volunteers led by GUARD archaeologists spent the summer excavating Paisley abbey’s drain and found a wellpreserved 14th-century stone archway marking the exact point where the drain and its contents once flowed into the River Cart. They established that the tunnel, believed to be around 100m long, ends around 3m from the banks of the present-day river, which would have been wider and shallower at the time the drain was built.