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Nigg Bay
Shell Midden (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Nigg Bay
Classification Shell Midden (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 20244
Site Number NJ90SE 8
NGR NJ 95 04
NGR Description NJ c. 95 04
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20244
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90SE 8 c. 95 04.
A mesolithic kitchen midden on the '25' raised beach' at Bay of Nigg was excavated and was found to contain periwinkle, limpet and mussel shells as well as fish and mammal bones.
R W Reid 1912; W D Simpson 1943.
The exact location of this shell midden is not recorded and nothing is now visible of it.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 15 April 2002.