Aberdeen, Castle Lane, Virginia Street Steps
Midden (Period Unassigned), Road (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Aberdeen, Castle Lane, Virginia Street Steps
Classification Midden (Period Unassigned), Road (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Futtie Wynd; Futty Wynd
Canmore ID 20021
Site Number NJ90NW 120
NGR NJ 9463 0633
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20021
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90NW 120 9463 0633.
An area 11.1m long, 1.5m wide and 1.2m deep was excavated. Below the disturbance caused by services lay a badly disturbed road surface consisting of well worn stones and large beach pebbles, with a few sherds of 14th-century pottery. Immediately underlying this road was a much cruder road surface. Research suggests that this was the original Futty Wynd which led from the Castlegate to Futty. Prior to the construction of the road, the area had been used as a midden. In places 0.73m of midden deposits were revealed, including a shell midden filled with mussel shells, animal bones, a large number of pottery sherds and a few oyster shells. The pottery from this horizon ranged in date from the late 13th to mid 14th-century. The area had been quarried for clay before the midden was created.
J C Greig 1975; C Greig 1982; J C Murray 1982.
(Location cited as NJ 946 063 and name as Virginia Street Steps).
[Newspaper account cited; location of finds not specified].
NMRS, MS/712/83.
