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Cowhill
Font (Medieval)(Possible), Knocking Stone (Post Medieval)
Site Name Cowhill
Classification Font (Medieval)(Possible), Knocking Stone (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Clach Mhuillin; Fairview Place
Canmore ID 106982
Site Number NJ92SE 20
NGR NJ 9616 2092
NGR Description Removed to NJ 9170 1036
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/106982
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Belhelvie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ92SE 19 9616 2092 removed to 9608 2090
A stone font with four 'lugs' was found in a garden-wall in 1994. It is retained by the finder (Mr McRae, Black-Mhuilinn, Cowhill), and may be that fom Belhelvie, Old Parish Church (NJ91NE 1).
NMRS, MS/712/9.
NJ 961 209. Stone font with four 'lugs'; found built into wall of garden. May be missing holy stoup, from Petten's Church, which once stood in the garden of Belhelvie Manse but disappeared a number of years ago.
Reported to Grampian Region Archaeology Service by Mr McRae, Black-Mhuilinn, Cowhill, Balmedie. Full information is held in Grampian Regional Council SMR.
M Greig 1995.
This alleged font may be nothing more than a mortar or small knocking stone, and it is presently situated immediately to the S of the bungalow known as Clach Mhuillin (NJ 9608 2090). It measures 0.32m in overall diameter and 0.18m in depth and it has four external vertical lugs which rise from a flat base to the rim. The internal hollow measures 0.24m in diameter and 0.16m in depth.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 15 June 1998.
Note (5 August 2019)
The finder has informed HES that this stone is now located at 11 Fairview Place, Danestone, Aberdeen (NJ 9170 1036).
Information from HES (GFG) 5 August 2019.
