Aberdeen, Beans Hill, Boundary Marker 23
Boundary Stone (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Boundary Stone (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Site Name Aberdeen, Beans Hill, Boundary Marker 23
Classification Boundary Stone (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Boundary Stone (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen, March Stone 23
Canmore ID 19439
Site Number NJ80SW 6
NGR NJ 84674 03544
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19439
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Peterculter
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ80SW 6 84674 03544
See also NJ90NW 135.
On the top of Beans Hill there is an earth-fast stone with a cup-mark. It is one of the original boundary stones of the Freedom Lands of Aberdeen (NJ80NE 3) established by 1698, and is near the post-1790 stone which bears the legend 'ABD 23'.
D B Gunn 1929
NJ 8467 0354. To the east of the top of Beans Hill is a large rock outcrop on the flat top of which is a solitary cup-mark c. 40m from the cup-mark,at the edge of the outcrop, is the post 1790 boundary stone inscribed 23 ABD.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 20 November 1961.
This boundary stone is situated at the junction of five fence-lines about 130m E of the summit of Beans Hill. Rectangular in section, the stone is of dressed granite and measures 0.32m by 0.18m at ground level and 1.04m in height. The upper part of the ESE face is bevelled, reducing the thickness of the stone to 0.08m at the top. On this bevelled face there are the incised letters ABD below the number 23.
A cup-shaped depression has been carved into a near horizontal sheet of bedrock 2.7m to the S of the boundary stone; it measures about 140mm in diameter and 60mm in depth.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW). 11 February 1996.
