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Watching Brief
Date April 2006
Event ID 546992
Category Recording
Type Watching Brief
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/546992
NJ 939 081 Previous watching briefs (Stones and Cameron, DES 1989, and Murray, DES 2004) in the area uncovered the foundations of the 1832 frontage and associated drainage channel and also walls and an area of flooring thought to be related to a 19th-century professorial manse. An archaeological watching brief was carried out in April 2006 on the ground-breaking works associated with the installation of floodlighting in front of King's College, Aberdeen. Excavation of a small service trench revealed the remains of an earlier N/S running wall extending from beneath a buttress of the present wall. Also traces of a parallel stone-built culvert were observed. No dating evidence was observed but these features appear to correspond to those identified in an earlier watching brief undertaken in 1989, which identified the wall as being part of the 1832 frontage.
Archive to be deposited in NMRS.
Sponsor: Aberdeen University
V Clements 2006
