The Auld Toon

The estuaries of the Dee and Don teemed with fish, birds and eggs. They were naturally defensive areas and they offered rich food sources for hunters and gatherers. They later supported primitive farming on the sand and gravel laid by the last Ice Age. A couple of dozen settlements of extended families grew up around the estuaries of Dee, Don and Denburn. You could find them from as early as the second century A.D. at Donmouth, Seaton, Tillydrone, Torry, Fittie, Dee Village and the Green. They were eventfully to expand, amalgamate and merge with their inland cousins, to create Aberdeen. ​

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