Aberdeen, 45-59 Green
No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Aberdeen, 45-59 Green
Classification No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) E1; Messrs F W Woolworth And Co; 49-59 The Green
Canmore ID 20012
Site Number NJ90NW 112
NGR NJ 9410 0611
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20012
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90NW 112 9410 0611
(Location cited as NJ 9409 0611). Excavation of a car park site between 50 and 60m E of the Denburn revealed 12th century cobbling, three sherds of 13th century pottery, and Mesolithic flints.
Mesolithic flint-working floor excavated in trench 2, December 1976; semi-circular on plan and measuring about 0.8 by 0.9m with debitage. The area slopes to the S and more steeply to the W.
[Newspaper reference cited; present location of finds not specified].
NMRS, MS/712/83.
The archive from 45-59 Green has been catalogued. It consists of manuscripts, drawings and colour photographs (prints only).
Historic Scotland Archive Project (FO) 1997
In 1976 revealed part of a roughly oval scatter of flints was revealed by excavation of 45-59 Green. The excavated portion contained 297 pieces, including cores, flakes, bladelets, microburins, a burin spall, microliths, scrapers, burins and awls. The finds from the excavation are now in Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 28 May 1997.
