Aberdeen City HER - NJ90NW0003 - 45-59 GREEN, ABERDEEN

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Primary ReferenceNJ90NW0003
Name45-59 GREEN, ABERDEEN
NRHE Card No.NJ90NW112
NRHE Numlink 20012
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. NULL
Site Form Documentary Record Only
Site Condition Destroyed
Details Excavation in 1976 recorded Mesolithic flints, 12th century cobbling and Medieval pottery. A Mesolithic flint working floor was semi-circular in plan measuring circa 0.8m by 0.9m with debitage. A total of 297 flints were found in the excavation, including cores, flakes, bladelets, microburins, microliths, scrapers, burins and awls. Although flints have since been commonly found on sites in Aberdeen city centre, this was the first discovery of a location where they had actually been made into implements. From a later date, the earliest signs of activity on this site were a patch of cobbles and some burnt material dating from the late 12th or early 13th century, succeeded by some slightly later post-holes. These features were overlain by garden soil which had accumulated between the 14th and 18th centuries. Later features included an 18th-century drain, but 19th-century cellarage had destroyed many deposits. It was concluded that this area lay within the confines of the Carmelite Friary until the Reformation, and had little development through much of the medieval period. The finds from this site are in the collections of Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums.
Last Update25/01/2023
Updated Bycpalmer
CompilerACU
Date of Compilation13/09/2017

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Event Details

Event DateEvent TypeOASIS ID
1976 Excavation

Excavations and Surveys


Artefact and Ecofact

Ecofact

Samples
Palynology
Ecofact Notes

Monument Types

Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
FLINTS WORKEDA100
POTTERY  B100
CORESFLINT C100
MICRO-BURINSFLINT D100
MICROLITHSFLINTS E100
SCRAPERSFLINT F100
AWLSFLINT G100
COBBLES  H100
POST-HOLES  I100