Document record MAB54719 - MIDMILL, KINTORE

An archaeological evaluation was carried out by MAS in April 2012 in advance of a proposed housing development.

An archaeological evaluation was carried out by MAS in April 2012 in advance of a proposed housing development. Twelve trenches were excavated in Field 1 (the northernmost) focused on the areas below the break of slope where survival of prehistoric activity had been recorded in 2007-9 (NJ71SE0104) and 10 in Field 2. In Field 1 there was evidence of rig and furrow cultivation, of medieval or post-medieval date, at the lower north end of the site. The small number of medieval pottery sherds recovered are likely to be the result of midden manuring during cultivation but there is no evidence of associated settlement. The only evidence for prehistoric activity in this area was three unstratified flints in the top of the ploughsoil. Field 2 had been extensively infilled, drained and levelled in circa 2007 when the ruins of the last surviving buildings of the Mains of Kintore were demolished. Apart from a small patch of unstructured rubble in one trench there was no surviving structural evidence of the croft. There was a scatter of late 19th and early 20th century domestic ceramic and glass around the area of the former croft.

MURRAY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES, 2012, MIDMILL 2012, KINTORE, ABERDEENSHIRE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATION, Eval report (Bibliographic reference). SAB5042.

ARCHAEOLOGY SCOTLAND, 2013, DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 13, 2012, p.23 (Bibliographic reference). SAB5487.

MURRAY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES, 2013, MIDMILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, KINTORE, ABERDEENSHIRE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS AND EXCAVATIONS CARRIED OUT 2007-2012. PART 1 (Bibliographic reference). SAB5049.

MURRAY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES, 2013, MIDMILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, KINTORE, ABERDEENSHIRE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS AND EXCAVATIONS CARRIED OUT 2007-2012. PART 2 (Bibliographic reference). SAB5050.

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