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A trial trenching evaluation was carried out by MAS in November 2007 - January 2008 ahead of industrial development (Aberdeen Gateway). It is an area where archaeological evidence for agricultural improvement can be matched with detailed contemporary descriptions in estate records. Parts of the site were waterlogged with timber surviving, although excavation showed this to be part of natural woodland with no apparent human activity. Samples taken for radiocarbon dating for information on woodland development, gave dates ranging from 7590 and 5530 BC indicating a Mesolithic date. On the higher ground a number of ploughed-out features were associated with early Neolithic carinated pottery. The evaluation also recorded evidence of the process of land Improvement (for which there is contemporary documentary record) including a number of field dykes across the site, some of which appear to be consumption dykes. The site is in part in Aberdeenshire - recorded on Aberdeenshire HER as NO99NW0075.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
Aberdeen City
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NJ90SW0947 - MOSS-SIDE