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Loirston Loch
No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Loirston Loch
Classification No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 320364
Site Number NJ90SW 288
NGR NJ 93950 01733
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/320364
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Nigg (City Of Aberdeen)
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Kincardineshire
Magnetometry (8 November 2011 - 10 November 2011)
The site has been the subject of a planning application for the construction of a proposed new stadium for Aberdeen Football Club, together with associated parking areas and access roads. The application has been approved subject to conditions which include a programme of archaeological investigations. The purpose of the survey is therefore to
test for evidence of buried archaeological features or remains, and so inform any further archaeological fieldwork at the site. Fieldwork for the survey was done on 8-10 November 2011.
The survey has detected a number of features which could provide targets for further investigation, although their archaeological relevance cannot necessarily be demonstrated on the basis of the survey evidence alone. The most conspicuous of these are the various disturbances in field 3. These may be partly natural, but cannot all be readily explained. The survey has detected possible silted hollows of uncertain significance in most parts of the site, together with more distinct pit-like features (as
shown in red), particularly in fields 4-6. There are no clear concentrations of these findings, but that does not wholly exclude the possibility that some could be of archaeological interest
Bartlett-Clark Consultancy and Headland Archaeology 2012
Archaeological Evaluation (16 January 2012 - 18 January 2012)
An archaeological evaluation was carried out by Archaeology Limited (GUARD), on behalf of Barr Construction, having been commissioned by AECOM, on an area proposed for development at Loirston Loch, Aberdeen. The 24 trial trenches were targeted on potentially archaeological anomolies highlighted by geophysical prospection carried out on the site and was therefore not based upon the total area proposed for development (15.9 ha). The boreholes were laid out in a grid across the central wet area of the site where access to both the geophysics and plant machinery was restricted. No significant archaeological features were encountered during the evaluation although selective samples of the cores taken were retained for further assessment and potential analysis of the environmental history of the site.
Information from Oasis (guardarc1-118496) 1 March 2012
