Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671297

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ90NW 113 9408 0608

(Location cited as NJ 9409 0609 and site-name as 67-71 Green). Excavation by the Aberdeen Urban Unit revealed a black layer (containing Mesolithic flints) sealed beneath about 30cm depth of water-deposited sand.

[Location of finds not specified].

NMRS, MS/712/83.

Excavation archive from 67-71 Green has been catalogued. It consists of colour photographs (prints only), drawings and manuscripts.

Historic Scotland Archive Project (FO) 1997

(Classified as Flints; Flint Arrowhead: Barbed-And-Tanged; Pottery; Urban Excavation). In 1977 about 40 pieces of flint were recovered by excavation of 67-71 Green. Most of them are probably of Mesolithic date, including a core, a notched flake flakes and waste material. In addition, however, there is a barbed-and-tanged arrowhead of yellow-brown flint with curved edges and asymmetrical barbs; it measures 19mm in length by 15mm in breadth across the barbs and 3mm in thickness. The finds from the excavation are now in Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum.

Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 28 May 1997.