Document record MAB63105 - GALLOWHILL

A watching brief and 7 percent evaluation was conducted across this area in May 2009 by Murray Archaeological Services after a planning application was made to change use of the land from agricultural to form part of an industrial waste treatment and recycling centre.

A watching brief and 7 percent evaluation was conducted across this area in May 2009 by Murray Archaeological Services after a planning application was made to change use of the land from agricultural to form part of an industrial waste treatment and recycling centre. The watching brief was carried out on the soil strip of a mound, the Gallowhill, at the south side of this industrial site. The area had been farmed and, in the more recent past, cultivated for market gardening. At the time of excavation it was covered with gorse, broom and scrub trees. No archaeological finds or features were evident in the soil strip of the top and slope of the mound. However, at the base of the mound, on the lower ground, preserved timbers in peat were uncovered. These almost certainly represent an extension of the Mesolithic, non-anthropogenic, woodland extending South from Moss-Side, Aberdeen, an area which was investigated in 2008 (NO99NW0075).

MURRAY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES, 2009, GALLOWHILL, NIGG - WATCHING BRIEF (Bibliographic reference). SAB4640.

ARCHAEOLOGY SCOTLAND, 2010, DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND: VOL 10, 2009, p.15 (Bibliographic reference). SAB3514.

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