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Aberdeen, King's College, Elphinstone Hall
No Class (Event)
Site Name Aberdeen, King's College, Elphinstone Hall
Classification No Class (Event)
Alternative Name(s) University Of Aberdeen
Canmore ID 174072
Site Number NJ90NW 7.07
NGR NJ 9403 0819
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/174072
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Watching Brief (August 2005 - September 2005)
NJ90NW 7.07 9403 0819
See also NJ90NW 7.11.
Location also cited as NJ 939 081.
Monitoring of trenches took place in August and September 2005 for the floodlighting of various University of
Aberdeen buildings including King's College Chapel (NJ90NW 7 ; c 1500), New King's and Elphinstone Hall.
The foundations of the chapel were recorded, including an X-shaped mason's mark on a sandstone block in the foundation of a buttress in the NE corner of the chapel. The foundations of the N wall of the chapel were 0.5-0.6m wide, whereas there was no foundation on the W side: the sandstone blocks were laid immediately onto the stone and gravel subsoil. A stone culvert was recorded adjacent to the W wall of the chapel; this was recorded in 1989 (DES 1989, 18)
during a previous floodlighting scheme. One wall foundation was recorded in a trench in front of New King's; it was probably one of the walls of the brewery seen on the 1867 OS map.
Archive to be deposited in NMRS.
Sponsor: City of Aberdeen.
