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Moloney, C. and Lawson, J. A. (2006).
Excavations at Maybury Park, Edinburgh (1990-2)
. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. https://doi.org/10.5284/1017938.
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Excavations at Maybury Park, Edinburgh (1990-2)
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Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports
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23
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45
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This paper presents the results of a series of excavations carried out by the City of Edinburgh Council Archaeology Service between 1990 and 1992 in advance of the Edinburgh Park development. Following a programme of test excavations, seven areas were opened up for excavation. Three of these contained significant archaeology dating to the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. The main findings included a Neolithic trackway, evidence for Bronze Age settlement and a large stone-built structure dating to the beginning of the first millennium AD.
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Colm Moloney
John A Lawson
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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Alison Sheridan (Author contributing)
Alan Saville (Author contributing)
Mhairi Hastie (Author contributing)
Valerie E Dean (Author contributing)
Catherine McGill (Author contributing)
Daniel Johnson (Author contributing)
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2006
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0 903903 92 X
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0 903903 92 X
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01 May 2011
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1 Summary
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This paper presents the results of a series of excavations carried out by the City of Edinburgh Council Archaeology Service between 1990 and 1992 in advance of the Edinburgh Park development. Following a programme of test excavations, seven areas were opened up for excavation. Three of these contained significant archaeology dating to the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. The main findings included a Neolithic trackway, evidence for Bronze Age settlement and a large stone-built structure dating to the beginning of the first millennium AD.
2 Introduction
2 - 5
This section presents information on circumstances behind excavation, site location and previous discoveries.
3 Results
6 - 21
A detailed archaeological description is organised by phase. Features in Area A were badly truncated and there was a lack of dating absence. They comprised linear features, pits, one of which was stone lined, a possible ring ditch and an 'avenue' of postholes. Features in Area B included a trackway and a large pit of Neolithic or early Bronze Age date. Other noteworthy features included a large stone structure in Area F which produced a radiocarbon date in the Iron Age.
Lithic artefacts
Alan Saville
22 - 26
4 Lithic artefacts
22 - 26
Specialist reports on lithics and worked stone. Evidence that actual knapping was taking place in the vicinity was recovered. The stone items included a quernstone.
Pottery of prehistoric and indeterminate date
Alison Sheridan
Catherine McGill
27 - 33
5 The pottery
27 - 33
Specialist reports on the pottery which includes material of Neolithic, Beaker, Bronze Age, Iron Age, post-Roman and post-medieval date.
Post-Roman pottery
John A Lawson
33
Post-medieval pottery
Valerie E Dean
John A Lawson
33
The carbonised remains
Mhairi Hastie
34 - 35
6 The carbonised plant remains
Mhairi Hastie
34 - 35
The assemblage comprised a mix of carbonised plant remains including cereal grains, seeds/fruits of wild taxa and one chaff fragment.
7 Conclusions
36
The results of the excavation appear to indicate that the areas investigated were located at the periphery of more intense foci of activity. It is recognised that, with hindsight, and in a modern development context, a more robust sampling strategy would have been pursued initially and that the entire development site would have been subjected to a more exhaustive programme of works including the stripping and excavation of much larger areas.
8 Acknowledgements
37
9 References
38 - 39
Excavations at Maybury Park, Edinburgh (1990'“2)
Colm Moloney
John A Lawson
This paper presents the results of a series of excavations carried out by the City of Edinburgh Council Archaeology Service between 1990 and 1992 in advance of the Edinburgh Park development. Following a programme of test excavations, seven areas were opened up for excavation. Three of these contained significant archaeology dating to the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. The main findings included a Neolithic trackway, evidence for Bronze Age settlement, and a large stone-built structure dating to the beginning of the first millennium AD.
