Aberdeen, 56 Gallowgate, Greyfriars House
House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Aberdeen, 56 Gallowgate, Greyfriars House
Classification House (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 20227
Site Number NJ90NW 93
NGR NJ 9417 0657
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20227
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90NW 93 9417 0657
The pavement in front of Greyfriars House, Gallowgate was excavated to a depth of 1.50m to provide foundations for a new entrance and ramp. Observation showed the site to be within the 19th-century cellars and to have been disturbed to a level just above natural. A humic soil above natural, which may have been medieval, yielded bone but no datable finds. The original E frontage of Gallowgate is now below the street due to road widening earlier in the century.
H Murray 1982.
