Document record MAB56060 - GOVAL FARM

Pits recorded during evaluation and excavation by Headland Archaeology ahead of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (see NJ81SE0076).

Pits recorded during evaluation and excavation by Headland Archaeology ahead of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (see NJ81SE0076). A single pit was recorded during trial trenching in 2013. It measured 0.28m by 0.28m by 0.08m, with rare amounts of charcoal but no evidence to indicate date or function. Further excavation was carried out by Headland Archaeology in 2014. Features recorded included a truncated ring gully in the northern part of the site dated to the early medieval period (radiocarbon dated to 640-770 AD), three undated possible pits, a system of medieval or post-medieval rig and furrow, and 20th century drainage. The basal fill of the gully may represent in situ burning of longitudinal timbers, perhaps of structural origin. It also contained oat and barley grains, weed seeds and nutshells. Monitored topsoil stripping was carried out by Headland Archaeology in November 2015 but no archaeological features or artefacts were recorded.

Period Notes
Radiocarbon date: SUERC-57931, gully, calibrated to 640-770 AD.

HEADLAND ARCHAEOLOGY, 2014, ABERDEEN WESTERN PERIPHERAL ROUTE/BALMEDIE-TIPPERTY LOT 2 - NORTHERN LEG: REPORT -TRIAL TRENCHING AND SAMPLE EXCAV. (VOLS 1-3), V1, p.32; V2 Ill 26 (Bibliographic reference). SAB4452.

HEADLAND ARCHAEOLOGY, 2015, AWPR/BALMEDIE-TIPPERTY LOT 2 NORTHERN LEG POST-EXCAVATION AND MITIGATION EXCAVATION ASSESSMENT REPORT (Bibliographic reference). SAB5841.

HEADLAND ARCHAEOLOGY, 2015, 2015, WRITTEN SCHEME OF INVESTIGATION FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL WATCHING BRIEF, ABERDEEN WESTERN PERIPHERAL ROUTE (Bibliographic reference). SAB5859.

HEADLAND ARCHAEOLOGY, 2017, AWPR: CONSTRUCTION PHASE AREAS - RESULTS OF ARCH MONITORING AND MITIGATION DURING POST-EX ASSESSMENT AND ASSESSMENT REPT (Bibliographic reference). SAB5858.

DINGWALL, K, 2019, THE LAND WAS FOREVER: 15,000 YEARS IN NORTH-EAST SCOTLAND. EXCAVATIONS ON THE AWPR/BALMEDIE-TIPPERTY (Bibliographic reference). SAB4064.

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