Document record MAB57421 - MEALMARKET STREET, ABERDEEN

A trial trenching evaluation was carried out by Aberdeen City Council Archaeological Unit between September 2001 and October 2002 ahead of development.

A trial trenching evaluation was carried out by Aberdeen City Council Archaeological Unit between September 2001 and October 2002 ahead of development. A total of 10 trenches were excavated. In all areas an organic garden soil and peat were encountered. A maximum depth of 5m was reached during this work, although this did not reveal the complete depth of the peat in one area. All trenches contained 19th-century walls, cellars and associated demolition material. The natural sloped down from east to west and from north to south, the deepest area being the south-west of the area. No structures were found which pre-date 1800. Remains of 19th-and 20th-century brick and stone buildings were photographically recorded. Provisional results from the assessment suggests that the area was a low-lying area of marshland which dried out to become fields in a later period. This site lies on the fringes of the medieval burgh of Aberdeen. The earliest map of Aberdeen, produced in 1661 by Parson James Gordon of Rothiemay, appears to show garden areas in the broad general location of the site, with some buildings in a 'ribbon development' on the opposite (west) side of what may be an embryonic West North Street. See also NJ90NW0231.

ABERDEEN CITY COUNCIL ARCHAEOLOGICAL UNIT, 2001, REPORT ON THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, MEALMARKET STREET, ABERDEEN (Bibliographic reference). SAB6378.

CAMERON, A, 2016, FIVE SITES IN THE ENVIRONS OF MEDIEVAL ABERDEEN (Bibliographic reference). SAB7012.

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