All photos used in the text and linked from the database were taken by Richard White, Helen McPherson, Eleanor Hutcheon, Lynn Duncan, Eleanor Barton and Ilya de Vries and are published courtesy of Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Collections. All the plans and sections and database illustrations are by Jan Dunbar, Clare Yarrington and Tracey Caldwell.
3D fly-through model of the Carmelite Friary, Aberdeen
The model was commissioned by the authors and created in 2002 by PinkZeppelin. The model is based on excavation and historical research and is dated to the period c.1450. The video has no sound.
Figure 1: Carmelite houses in Scotland and Northern England
Figure 2: Westward expansion of Carmelite houses up to 1265
Figure 3: Carmelite houses in north-east Scotland
Figure 4: Old and New Aberdeen, with location of selected places mentioned in the text
Figure 5: Location of Carmelite friary, other friaries and principal features of medieval burgh of Aberdeen
Figure 6: Old Aberdeen
Figure 7: Detailed location plan of Carmelite friary
Figure 8: Annotated version of Parson Gordon's map of Aberdeen, 1661
Figure 9: Extract from Parson Gordon's map of Aberdeen, 1661, showing site of Trinitarian friary, with its garden
Figure 10: Extract from 1867 Ordnance Survey map of Aberdeen, showing the Green, with former location of Carmelite friary to south
Figure 11: Extract from Parson Gordon's map of Aberdeen, 1661, showing former site of Carmelite friary, centre
Figure 12: Land ownership in the Green in the mid-15th century
Figure 13: Aberdeen's four quarters
Figure 14: Extract from Parson Gordon's map of Aberdeen, 1661, showing St Nicholas Church, with the Green to south of it
Figure 15: Aedie's House (Taken from Miscellany of the Third Spalding Club, Volume II, 1940)
Figure 16: Pottery group. Image: Jan Dunbar
Phase 1: Phase 1
Phase 1a: Trench plan: Phase 1a, Phase 1a north, Phase 1a central
Phase 2: Trench plan: Phase 2, Phase 2 central, Phase 2 north
Phase 3: Trench plan: Phase 3, Phase 3 central, Phase 3 north
Phase 4: Trench plan: Phase 4, Phase 4
Phase 5a: Trench plan: Phase 5a, Phase 5a north, Phase 5a south, Phase 5a graveyard, Phase 5s lead pipe
Phase 5b: Trench plan: Phase 5b, Phase 5b north, Phase 5b central, Phase 5b south, Phase 5b graveyard
Phase 5c: Trench plan: Phase 5c, Phase 5c north, Phase 5c central, Phase 5c graveyard
Phase 5d: Trench plan: Phase 5d, Phase 5d north, Phase 5d graveyard
Phase 5e: Trench plan: Phase 5e, Phase 5e north
Phase 6: Trench plan: Phase 6, Phase 6 north, Phase 6 central, Phase 6 south
Phase 7: Trench plan: Phase 7, Phase 7
Phase 8: Trench plan: Phase 8, Phase 8 north, Phase 8 south
Phase 9: Trench plan: Phase 9, Phase 9 north, Phase 9 south, Phase 9 graveyard
Section 1: Feature ALU
Section 2: Church wall AJB, foundation ANC and Phase 1 ditch ATB
Section 3: Ditch API
Section 4: Post-hole APL and watercourse APG
Section 5: Pits AGE and AHD
Section 6: Ditch ACT and pit ABI
Section 7: Post-hole AMX
Section 8: Post-hole ABV
Section 9: Post-hole ADD with post-pipe ABU and pit ABT
Section 9a: Post-holes AAR and AAS
Section 9b: Post-hole ACS
Section 10: Post-hole ACS and post-pipe ACR
Section 11: Post-hole and post-pipe AEW
Section 12: Post-holes AAS and AAR
Section 13: Clay bedding for lead pipe AMG
Section 14: Elevation of north west buttresses and W wall of church
Section 15: Elevation of interior face of north church wall
Section 16: Elevation of west church wall AJY and north west buttress AJT
Section 17: Elevation of external face of north church wall through north west buttress
Section 18: Elevation of external face of north church wall through doorway AMJ
Section 19: Elevation of doorway AMJ showing respective heights of door stones
Section 20: Elevation of foundation of north church wall, pit AND and grave ANU
Section 21: Pit AND under phase 9 wall ARP
Section 22: West range wall AAF and foundation AAP
Section 23: West range wall AAP
Section 24: West range wall AES with footing/foundation AFF
Section 25: West range walls AGU, AGV, AGL and phase 5 lead pipe AGO
Section 26: West range wall AGL with conduit for phase 5 lead pipe AGO
Section 27: Lead-working pit AHF
Section 28: Water channels ABK and ADZ associated with JEC
Section 29: North trench edge
Section 30: North trench edge showing drain AKV
Section 31: JEC and JEK facing east
Section 32: JEC and JEK facing west
Section 33: Section of wall AES and AEQ
Section 34: South wall of south range structure 5A (JAB and JAJ) and cobbles JAA
Section 35: Section across portion of south range structure 5A
Section 36: South range structure 5A and cobbles JAA
Section 37: West wall of west range, JDX and pit JEK
Section 38: East trench edge showing pit JDH, wall foundation JEL and robbed wall JEF
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