Site type HOUSE
Canmore ID 20227
Site Number NJ90NW 93
NGR NJ 9417 0657
Council ABERDEEN, CITY OF
Parish ABERDEEN
Former Region GRAMPIAN
Former District CITY OF ABERDEEN
Former County ABERDEENSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

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.

Murray, H (1982c) '56 Gallowgate 1979', in Murray, J C Excavations in the medieval burgh of Aberdeen 1973-81, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series No.2 Edinburgh
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