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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 675745
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/675745
NJ90NW 201 centred 9300 0800
For town gates, see NJ90NW 24.00.
For boundary markers, see NJ80NE 3, NJ90NW 135 and under individual boundary markers:
NJ80NW 13-17
NJ80NE 1 and NJ80NE 23 -7, 32, 35-6
NJ80SW 3, NJ80SW 6, NJ80SW 8, NJ80SW 19 -20
NJ80SE 7 and NJ80SE 13 -15, 19, 46-52
NJ81SE 18-19, 26-8
NJ90NW 61 and NJ90NW 137 -61
NJ90SW 17, NJ90SW 21, NJ90SW 32 -5.
See also Aberdeen, Torry Burgh (NJ90NE 17).
Aberdeen. A papal bull of 1157 confirmed to the bishop of Aberdeen 'totam decimam regis de burgo de Abbirdon', but the town's status as one of David's burghs is established by William the Lion's charter (1171x1185) granting his burgesses of Aberdeen (and others) their 'liberum ansum' (perhaps their merchant guild) as freely as their predecessors had it in the time of David I. The burgh's other early charters culminate in the feu-ferme grant (the first of its kind in Scotland) of 1319. It was in parliament from the years 1357-67.
Old Aberdeen was erected a burgh of barony (Bishop of Aberdeen), 26 December 1489.
G S Pryde 1965.
Air photographs: AAS/00/08/CT and AAS/00/12/CT.
NMRS, MS/712/100.
