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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- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- 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.
