GOLF COURSE and RESORT DEVELOPMENT, MENIE ESTATE, ABERDEENSHIRE. Report on a walkover survey of known sites affected the construction of the international links golf course

Archaeological fieldwork was carried out at Trumps International Golf Gourse at Menie Estate, Aberdeenshire before and during the construction phase. The fieldwork took place between June 2009 and July 2011 and comprised field walking, survey and excavation. The field walking identified the location and extent of two large and several minor flint scatters within the dune slack. The fieldwork also identified a former storm-beach, largely buried in wind-blown sand, some 150m inland from the current shoreline. It comprised a deposit of beach pebbles at the foot of a low eroded cliff. Several of the pebbles were flint nodules eroding out of the basal till. A program of flint collection was carried out on two areas measuring 10m by 20m and 2m by 20m in the vicinity of the storm-beach. There was a clear concentration of struck flints within both areas but none of these were associated with any features. A few retouched blades from the assemblage were identified as microliths indicating a Mesolithic date for the flint scatters.