Aberdeen City HER - NJ90NW1040 - OLD MEGABOWL, GEORGE ST, ABERDEEN

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NameOLD MEGABOWL, GEORGE ST, ABERDEEN
NRHE Card No.NJ90NW2677
NRHE Numlink 306553
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. NULL
Site Form Documentary Record Only
Site Condition Destroyed
Details A trial trenching evaluation was carried out by Headland Archaeology in October 2006 on the site of the old Megabowl in advance of housing development. This recorded a sequence of loch deposits probably of late Pleistocene date, which were cut into by 19th century cellars or overlain by two successive buried soils. The lower of these soil horizons probably reflects use of the infilled loch as open land, the upper soils the formation of rapidly accumulating urban soil. The cellars of the 19th century tenement buildings along St Andrews Street had been backfilled with rubble from their demolition. A second phase of work in July 2007 comprised four geoarchaeological exposures created by the demolition of the former bowling alley building. A single sequence of 18th to 19th century dump and levelling deposits was recorded. Elsewhere the construction of the bowling alley in the 1960s had removed all preceding deposits down to the mineral loch deposits.
Last Update09/04/2019
Updated Bycpalmer
CompilerACU
Date of Compilation13/09/2017

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2006 Evaluation

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