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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670091

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/670091

NJ72SE 17 77656 21065

(NJ 7765 2109) Old Town Hall (NR)

OS 25" map, Aberdeenshire, (1867)

The house used for the earliest tolbooth now traceable was bought as late as 1643, and stood where No. 81 High Street now is.

J Davidson 1878.

The owner of the present house, dated 1660, verified that the old Town Hall stood where his house, No. 81 High St, now stands at NJ 7765 2106. He showed the investigator a cellar which he believes pre-dates the present structure.

Visited by OS (NKB) 11 October 1964.

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