If anyone is interested, the heart was dug up at the probable site of
the chapter house at Melrose. It was sealed in its original lead
casket, which was further encased by another box, made for it by the
archaeologists who dug it up in the 1920s.
As far as I know its been sent for tests at Edinburgh University,
though I'm not sure whether they have open the lead casket to peer at
the contents.
Rather bizarrely, the present chaps who dug it up found it in a
landscaped section, next to the church, rather than in it. I presume the
intention is to rebury inside the church itself.
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