SAIR 23:Excavations at Maybury Park, Edinburgh (1990–2)

by Colm Moloney* and John A Lawson†
with contributions by Daniel Johnson, Alan Saville, Alison Sheridan, Catherine McGill, Mhairi Hastie and Valerie Dean
illustrations by Louise Baker, Jonathan Miller and Marion O'Neil

*Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 4b, Europa Enterprise Park, Midelton, County Cork, Ireland
†City of Edinburgh Council Archaeology Service, Museum of Edinburgh, 142 Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DD

ISBN 0 903903 92 X

Published in July 2007 by The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, in association with The Council for British Archaeologyand Historic Scotland, in Adobe Acrobat format. Available free of charge (see Terms & Conditions of Use).

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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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	Title Page
	Table of Contents
	List of Illustrations
	List of Tables
1	Summary
2	Introduction
3	Results
	3.1 Evaluation
	3.2 Excavation
	3.2.1 Area A
	3.2.2 Area B
	3.2.3 Area C
	3.2.4 Areas D and E
	3.2.5 Area F
	3.2.6 Area U
4	Lithic Artefacts by Alan Saville
	4.1 Struck lithic artefacts
	4.2 Coarse stone artefacts
5	The Pottery
	5.1 Pottery of prehistoric and indeterminate date by Alison Sheridan & Catherine McGill
	5.1.1 Area B
	5.1.2 Area C
	5.1.3 Area F
	5.1.4 Discussion
	5.2 Post-Roman pottery by John A Lawson
	5.3 Post-medieval pottery by Valerie E Dean & John A Lawson
6	The Carbonized Remains by Mhairi Hastie
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Results
	6.2.1 Distribution
	6.2.2 Cereal remains
	6.2.3 Weed seeds
	6.2.4 Potential economic species
	6.3 Discussion
	6.3.1 Concentration and distribution
	6.3.2 Plant assemblages
	6.4 Summary
7	Conclusion
8	Acknowledgements
9	References