Cover
Title Page
Copyright page
Contents Page
List of figures
1 Preface
Figure 1.1: view of the east range from the south in the Spring of 1998.
Figure 1.2: plan of Rushen Abbey to show the nomenclature adopted for this monograph.
2 The history of Rushen Abbey and archaeological excavation
Figure 2.1: Cistercian and Savignac foundation dates before 1135.
Figure 2.2: the opening page of the Malew section of the Limites.
Figure 2.3: extract from the Court of Augmentations accounts 24 June to 29 September 1540.

Figure 2.4: ""The prospect of Balisaly Abby, on the South West side"" by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677).
Figure 2.5: Rushen Abbey from the south-west in 1774, by Moses Griffiths.
Figure 2.6: lithograph by Samuel Hooper (c1726-1793) dated 1774.
Figure 2.7: Robertson's view of the abbey of around 1791.
Figure 2.8: plan of Rushen Abbey by Sir Henry Dryden drawn in July 1853.
Figure 2.9: view of the transeptal tower from the north-east by Sir Henry Dryden, 25 July 1853.
Figure 2.10: view of western elevation of the chapter house by Sir Henry Dryden, 1853.

Figure 2.11: drawing of a small medieval window in the west face of the transeptal tower (Cumming 1868, 40).
Figure 2.12: Cochrane's suggested plan of Rushen Abbey, 1910.
Figure 2.13: plan of part of William Cubbon's excavation in the east range, dated March 1914.
Figure 2.14: plan to show location of the Gill, Cubbon, Butler and Garrad excavations.
Figure 2.15: plan to show the main geophysical anomalies identified in 1997.
Figure 2.16: the state of the site when MNH took possession in 1998.
Figure 2.17: cleaning and recording the foundations of the dancing floor in 1998.

Figure 2.18: the cloister area exposed in 1999 before the excavations began.
Figure 2.19: the southern part of area M, on completion of the excavation in 2008.
3 Excavations from 1998 to 2008: the results
Figure 3.1: Rushen Abbey in its geomorphological setting.
Figure 3.2: two views of the rostro-carinate found by Cubbon in area S.
Figure 3.3: three flint cores of early Mesolithic type
Figure 3.4: fragments of three Neolithic concave saws.
Figure 3.5: broken and damaged Neolithic polished axe.
Figure 3.6: the broken quartz or quartzite axe hammer.

Figure 3.7: the upstanding remains of Rushen Abbey church from the south-west.
Figure 3.8: the Bruce plan of the church showing his Cistercian and pre-Cistercian interpretation.
Figure 3.9: axonometric drawing by Bruce illustrating the two-church interpretation.
Figure 3.10: plan of the church derived from all excavations.
Figure 3.11: the surviving Romanesque arch in the north transept.
Figure 3.12: matrix of stratigraphic relationships in the church.
Figure 3.13: the east cloister walk under excavation.