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A watching brief was carried out by Aberdeen City Council Archaeological Unit August and September 2005 during works for floodlighting of various University of Aberdeen buildings including King's College Chapel (c 1500, NJ90NW0917), New King's and Elphinstone Hall. The foundations of the chapel were recorded, including an X-shaped mason's mark on a sandstone block in the foundation of a buttress in the northeast corner of the chapel. The foundations of the north wall of the chapel were 0.5-0.6m wide, whereas there was no foundation on the west side: the sandstone blocks were laid immediately onto the stone and gravel subsoil. A stone culvert was recorded adjacent to the west wall of the chapel; this was also recorded in 1989 during a previous floodlighting scheme. One wall foundation was recorded in a trench in front of New King's; it was probably one of the walls of the brewery seen on the 1867 OS map. A watching brief carried out by AOC in April 2006 on a small service trench related to the floodlighting in front of King's College recorded the remains of an earlier north-south wall extending from beneath a buttress of the present wall, and traces of a parallel stone-built culvert. No dating evidence was recovered but these features appear correspond to those identified in a watching brief in 1989, which identified the wall as part of the 1832 frontage.
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Aberdeen City
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NJ90NW0929 - KING'S COLLEGE