Field Visit

Date 23 May 2017

Event ID 1022465

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022465

This boundary stone, one of a series of sixteen, marked the SW corner of an area of military land that contained, among other buildings, the old town jail (NS79SE 177.01). The stone is a grey sandstone quoin measuring 0.6m from NW to SE by 0.3m in height and at least 0.23m in thickness, standing about 1.5m above the adjacent pavement. On its SW face it bears the incised legend 'WD' above an upward pointing arrow, above 'No. 13'. The stone is depicted on the OS 25-inch map (Stirlingshire 1947, Sheet n017.03), but it almost certainly dates to the latter part of the 19th century when the military took over the civilian jail. There is an OS benchmark carved into the quoin two below the boundary stone.

Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (JRS) 23 May 2017.