Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick . of the vaultremains at the north end, but, judging by the fragmentary details ofthe wall-shafts and central pillars, it appears to be of the ThirdPointed Period dating from the 15th century. A round-headed door-way situated at the north-west angle of this apartment appears to 142 HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. Parish of given access by a staircase from the cloister-walk to thedormitory on the first-floor level. It would no doubt be used bythe monks in the daytime, while the staircase
Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick . of the vaultremains at the north end, but, judging by the fragmentary details ofthe wall-shafts and central pillars, it appears to be of the ThirdPointed Period dating from the 15th century. A round-headed door-way situated at the north-west angle of this apartment appears to 142 HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. Parish of given access by a staircase from the cloister-walk to thedormitory on the first-floor level. It would no doubt be used bythe monks in the daytime, while the staircase leading to the southtransept would be used during the night in connection with theservices. In the west wall there is a large fireplace measuring 7 feetbetween the jambs, which is also a late addition; at the south-westangle two doorways have given access to this apartment, one from thecloister-garth, and the other from the slype. A narrow staircaseformed in the thickness of the walls at the south-east angle, nowin a very ruinous state, appears to have given additional access to. Fio. 137. ?Boss recently unearthed in southmost apartment of conventualbuildings, Dryburgh Abbey (No. 258). the dormitory above. There has also been a doorway formed inthe buttress at the south-eastern angle; it is now built up, butoriginally it appears to have communicated with this staircase fromthe exterior on the eastern side. The slype consists of a plain barrel-vaulted passage measuring 10 feet in width with a semicirculararchway to the east and west. To the south of the slype is a largerectangular apartment, recently excavated, but its purpose is nowuncertain. It measures 43 feet by 23 feet 2 inches within wallsaveraging 3 feet 9 inches in thickness, and has been vaulted in sixcompartments, the moulded vaulting ribs springing from two centralpillars and corbelled wall shafts, as in the case of the northmost pillar is destroyed, but a portion of the other withthe moulded base rema
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