Aberdeen, Littlejohn Street
No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Aberdeen, Littlejohn Street
Classification No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 20232
Site Number NJ90NW 98
NGR NJ 9419 0652
NGR Description NJ 9419 0652 to NJ 9425 0657
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20232
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90NW 98 9419 0652 to 9425 0657.
Observation of service trenches when laying a new telephone cable showed that in Littlejohn Street there were thick organic midden layers at the W end, from the top of the hill to approximately halfway down the hill where they ceased abruptly. This confirms the estimate extent of the medieval town in this direction. There was no surviving evidence of a ditch or any boundary, but it is unlikely that a fence would have been identifiable in the very narrow trenches. No evidence of earlier street surfaces was seen as the ground was totally disturbed by existing service trenches. Medieval pottery, leather, slag and bone were recovered.
H Murray 1979; H Murray 1982.
NMRS REFERENCE
Architect: William Littlejohn 1759-64
(Undated) information in NMRS.
