Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Foreword from the Lord Provost of Aberdeen
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Presentation of results and evidence
• 1.2 Previous archaeological work
• 1.3 Further information and archive
• 2 The Sites
• 2.1 Excavation methods
• 2.2 Castle Street: 13th to 15th century buildings adjacent to the medieval market. Alison Cameron & Judith Stones
• 2.2.1 Introduction
• 2.2.2 The excavations
• 2.2.3 Interpretation
• 2.3 16-18 Netherkirkgate: 13th to 20th century buildings and rich organic deposits. Alison Cameron
• 2.3.1 Introduction
• 2.3.2 The excavations
• 2.3.3 Interpretation
• 2.4 St Nicholas Triangle: a site adjacent to St Nicholas Parish Church. Alison Cameron
• 2.4.1 Introduction
• 2.4.2 The excavations
• 2.4.3 Interpretation
• 2.5 43-57 Upperkirkgate: early medieval backland occupation near the site of the Upper Mill. Judith Stones
• 2.5.1 Introduction
• 2.5.2 The excavations
• 2.5.3 Interpretation
• 2.6 30-46 Upperkirkgate: medieval backland activities from the 12th century. Alison Cameron & Judith Stones
• 2.6.1 Introduction
• 2.6.2 The excavations
• 2.6.3 Interpretation
• 2.7 Gallowgate Middle School: 12th century and later leatherworking. Alison Cameron
• 2.7.1 Introduction
• 2.7.2 The excavations
• 2.7.3 Interpretation
• 2.8 45-75 Gallowgate: medieval and post-medieval occupation beside the Town Loch. DH Evans
• 2.8.1 Introduction
• 2.8.2 The excavations
• 2.8.3 Interpretation
• 3. The Documentary Research. Anne Johnston and Douglas Speirs
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 The nature of the sources: types, locations and contents
• 3.2.1. Printed source material
• 3.2.2 MS source material
• 3.2.3 Cartographic source material
• 3.2.4 Secondary sources
• 3.3 The documentary picture of medieval Aberdeen
• 3.3.1 Urban growth and property holding in Aberdeen
• 3.3.2 Landowners and tenants
• 3.3.3 Reconstructing urban plots
• 3.3.4 Urban buildings
• 3.3.5 The composite picture
• 3.4 Historical development of individual areas
• 3.4.1 Castle Street
• 3.4.2 16-18 Netherkirkgate
• 3.4.3 St Nicholas Triangle
• 3.4.4 43-57 Upperkirkgate and 30-46 Upperkirkgate
• 3.4.5 20-52 (Middle School) and 45-75 Gallowgate
• 4. Pottery. Alison Cameron & DH Evans
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.1.1 Vessel forms
• 4.1.2 Pottery manufacture
• 4.1.3 Implications of Pottery study: cooking practices, survival, status and trade
• 4.1.4 The future
• 4.2 Summary of products
• 4.2.1 Local products
• 4.2.2 Imported wares
• 4.3 Catalogue of material by site and phase
• 4.3.1 Notes to catalogue
• 4.3.2 Castle Street
• 4.3.3 16-18 Netherkirkgate
• 4.3.4 St Nicholas triangle
• 4.3.5 43-57 Upperkirkgate
• 4.3.6 30-46 Upperkirkgate
• 4.3.7 Gallowgate Middle School
• 4.3.8 45-75 Gallowgate
• 5. Small finds of metal, glass, stone, bone and organics. Alison Cameron, Judith Stones, DH Evans and others
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Coins: Stewart Thain
• 5.3 Copper-alloy artefacts: with a contribution by Alison Goodall
• 5.3.1 Discussion: use and manufacture
• 5.3.2 Description and catalogue of the pieces by type: brooches/buckles, finger rings, discs, vessels, pins, lace chapes, buttons, needles, strips and sheets and miscellaneous fragments
• 5.4 Ironwork
• 5.4.1 Discussion: survival and use of iron objects
• 5.4.2 Description and catalogue of pieces by type, nails and clench bolts, hooks, vessel fragments and sheets, knives, building ironwork, horse equipment, buckles, bars and miscellaneous pieces
• 5.5 Miscellaneous metal and metal working debris
• 5.5.1 Lead objects
• 5.5.2 Gold ring
• 5.5.3 Slags
• 5.6 Glass
• 5.6.1 Discussion: dating, distribution and survival
• 5.6.2 Description and catalogue of pieces by type: vessel, window glass and miscellaneous
• 5.8 Stone artefacts
• 5.8.1 Discussion: Stone types and sources
• 5.8.2 Description and catalogue of pieces by type: worked sandstone, roofing slate and miscellanous
• 5.9 Worked bone objects
• 5.9.1 Bone types and survival
• 5.9.2w Description and catalogue of pieces by type: pin-beaters, points, toggles/buzzbones, combes and miscellaneous
• 5.10 Wood including dendrochronological analysis of the barrel staves. Anne Crone with DH Evans and a contribution by Charles Tracy
• 5.10.1 Introduction: object types, manufacture and survival
• 5.10.2 Description and catalogue of pieces by type: pegs, dowels and nails, bale pins, bowls, furniture, lids, casks/barrels, planks and miscellaneous
• 5.10.3 Dendrochronological analysis of the barrel staves
• 5.11 Textiles, textile fibres and animal hairs, dyes and ropes
• 5.11.1 Textiles. Thea Gabra-Sanders
• 5.11.2 Textile fibres and animal hairs. Michael L Ryder
• 5.11.3 Dyes. Penelope Walton Rogers
• 5.11.4 Ropes. Penelope Walton Rogers and Allan Hall
• 5.12 Leather. Clare Thomas
• 5.12.1 Shoe and shoemaking fragments: description and discussion
• 5.12.2 Straps, bindings, belts and other fragments: description and discussion
• 5.12.3 Interpretation
• 5.12.4 Catalogue
• 5.13 Flint artefacts. Alan Saville
• 5.13.1 Description and discussion of pieces
• 5.13.2 Catalogue of pieces (16-18 Netherkirkgate only)
• 5.13.3 Conclusion
• 5.14 The Clay tobacco pipes. Susanne Atkin
• 5.14.1 Introduction:dating, typology and origins
• 5.14.2 Discussion by site
• 5.14.3 Catalogue by date and origin
• 6 The Environmental remains
• 6.1 The mammal bone. Catherine Smith & Finbar McCormick
• 6.1.1 Methodology
• 6.1.2 Details of bones by site
• 6.1.3 Discussion
• 6.2 Bird and Fish Bones. Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Catherine Smith, Andrea E Bullock & Andrew KG Jones
• 6.2.1 Methods and analysis
• 6.2.2 Fish bones
• 6.2.3 Bird bones
• 6.3 Plants, intestinal parasites and insects. Harry Kenward and Allan Hall with Enid Allison, John Carrott, Andrew KG Jones, Frances Large, Brian Leddington, Colin Nicholson & the late John Phipps
• 6.3.1 Introduction
• 6.3.2 Methods
• 6.3.3 Detail of material by site
• 6.3.4 Interpretation
• 6.4 Residues from a ceramic vessel and stone mortar. Brian Moffat with Michael Penny
• 6.4.1 Details of the analysis
• 6.4.2 Interpretation
• 7. In Conclusion: presenting medieval Aberdeen in context. Judith Stones
• 7.1 Before the burgh
• 7.2 Early medieval settlement
• 7.3 Burgh waterfront and harbour
• 7.4 Castle and castlegate
• 7.5 Town defences and ports
• 7.6 Construction and manufacturing industries
• 7.6.1 Buildings and house types
• 7.6.2 Manufacturing industries
• 7.7 National and international contacts
• 7.8 People and their lives
• 7.9 Research and interpretation
• References
• Glossary
• Index