Aberdeen, 31 St Andrew Street
No Class (Event)
Site Name Aberdeen, 31 St Andrew Street
Classification No Class (Event)
Alternative Name(s) Megabowl; Hilton Hotel
Canmore ID 306553
Site Number NJ90NW 2677
NGR NJ 93887 06604
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/306553
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Archaeological Evaluation (October 2006)
NJ 939 065 An archaeological evaluation was undertaken in October 2006 at the Old Megabowl Site in advance of a proposed housing development. The evaluation comprised 31.5m of linear trial trenching covering an area of 54.5m2, equating to nearly a 5% sample of the proposed development area to be investigated in Phase 1. The evaluation was undertaken in order to assess the presence and survival of possible loch deposits at the site, on the basis of earlier work at Gallowgate in Aberdeen.
The sequence found consisted of loch deposits, probably dating to the late Pleistocene, either cut into by 19th-century cellars or overlain by two successive buried soils, the lower probably reflecting the development of the infilled loch into an area of open land, the upper reflecting the formation of rapidly accumulating urban soil. The cellars of the 19th-century tenement buildings along St Andrews Street had been backfilled with rubble from their demolition. All deposits were covered by a considerable depth of modern hardcore and tarmac.
Archive to be deposited with the NMRS. Report to be lodged in the Aberdeen City SMR and NMRS.
Sponsor: Bancon Developments Ltd
S Lancaster 2006
Archaeological Evaluation (12 July 2007)
NJ 939 065 A second phase of archaeological evaluation was undertaken in advance of a proposed housing development. The work undertaken on 12 July 2007 consisted of four geoarchaeological exposures created by the demolition of the former bowling alley building. The evaluation was undertaken in order to assess the presence and survival of possible loch deposits at the site, on the basis of earlier work at Gallowgate in Aberdeen. A single sequence of late 18th- to 19th-century dump/ levelling deposits was noted. Elsewhere the construction of a bowling alley in the 1960s had removed all preceding deposits down to mineral loch deposits, probably dating to the late Pleistocene.
Archive to be deposited with RCAHMS. Report to be deposited with the Aberdeen City SMR and RCAHMS.
Funder: Bancon Developments Ltd.
Stephen Lancaster, 2007.