Aberdeen, 42 St Paul Street
Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Aberdeen, 42 St Paul Street
Classification Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) E6; St Paul's Street, Farquhar And Gill's; Boys' Hospital (Former); Anderson's Mansion; Drum's Lane
Canmore ID 20212
Site Number NJ90NW 86
NGR NJ 9412 0649
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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Unidentified features.
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Area B: Trial trench
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Area C: layer 11
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Area B: brick wall?
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Area C: Weaving sword, layer 23, Cat.No.696
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Area C: layer 77
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Area C: layer 23
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Lifting weaving sword.
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Lifting weaving sword.
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Area B: Stone circle JL
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Area B: VD/VC
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Area B: layer 49, underground chambers - details and general views
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Area B: layer 49, underground chambers - details and general views
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Area B: layer 49, underground chambers - details and general views
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Area A: Wattle, layer 74/94/30/25
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Area B: layer 61/65
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Area C: Lifting spoon
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Area C: General view N & S
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General view of site.
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Area D: Unidentified features.
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Area D: Unidentified features.
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Area D: Unidentified features.
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Area B: JO, JA, JG/Site
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Area B: Stairway
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Area A: SAK, TAF?
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Area A: TAF, layer 237
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Area D: layer 39, 40, 25
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Area A: TAN, TAO, natural
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Area D: WN, layer 49, 50
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Area C: DY, EA, layer 287
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Studio: site map.
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Area F: General view
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Area F: General view
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Area F: General view
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Area F: General view
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Studio: Drawing
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Areas D, F, H, A: General view
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Area B: Trench B JE, layer 9
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Area A: Rubble & mortar, layer 3
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Area B: layer 4-10
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Bronze sword from Tillydrone
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Area A: layer 2O
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Areas D, F, H, A: General view
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Areas D, F, H, A: General view
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Area G, D: General view
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Area G, D: General view
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Area G, D: General view
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Area G, D: General view
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Area G, D: General view
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Area D: Natural, layer 56, 71
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Area C: Sections W
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Area B: KK, KL
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Area E: Section N
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Area A: Section E
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Area A: Section E
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Area A: Section E
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Area A: Section S
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Unidentified feature.
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Area D: WN, layer 46
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View of unidentifed people in flooded area
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1977
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View of unidentifed people in flooded area
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1977
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View of unidentifed people at coffee break
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1977
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View of unidentifed people at coffee break
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1977
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View of unidentifed people at coffee break
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1977
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Area D: layer 39, 40, 25
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1977
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Area G, D: General view
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1977
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Area C: Sections W
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1977
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Area B: Trial trench
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1977
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Area B: Trial trench
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1977
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Area B: Trench B, cutting JC E
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1977
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Area C: layer 6, 8, 9
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1977
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Area A: layer 2O
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1977
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Area C: AK E
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1977
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Weaving sword - preparation to lifting
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1977
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Area B: VB
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1977
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Lifting weaving sword.
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1977
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Lifting weaving sword.
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1977
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Lifting weaving sword.
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1977
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Trench 2: pot shard, layer 16
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1977
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Area B: layer 61/65
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1977
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Area A: SE
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1977
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Area C: BP layer 62-143
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1977
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Pot rim, Scarborough ware.
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1977
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Beast's head spout.
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1977
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Unidentified excavation feature.
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1977
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- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90NW 86 9412 0649
(Location cited as NJ 9412 0648 and site-name as St Paul's Street, Farquhar and Gill's). Large-scale excavation by C M Brooks (as a Job Creation Project) over the winter of 1977-8 examined an area formerly occupied by warehouses and revealed undisturbed medieval deposits which were rich in organic debris, and also traces of an early wattle structure. There were also identified: rigs of 12th century date, pits; middens, a bread oven and traces of five houses of the 13th century and a 14th century house. There is extensive documentary evidence for work- and craft-shops on the site since the 16th century.
(Newspaper, magazine and other references listed; location of finds not specified].
NMRS, MS/712/83.
Of the 141 pieces of flint recovered from the excavation of 42 St Paul Street in the 1970's, a total of 93 appear to be of Mesolithic date, including cores, microburins, a burin spall, scrapers, a wedge and a number of flakes. The finds from the excavation are now in Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 28 May 1997.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Aberdeen, 42 St. Paul Street.
Built c. 1741. Demolished 1977.
Re-used as Boys' Hospital.
Later incorporated into Farquar & Gill Warehouse.
