Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670394

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ81NE 14 86925 15198

(NJ 8692 1519) Liddell's Monument (NR)

OS 6" map (1928)

In 1614 the magistrates erected a pillar (Liddell's Monument) to the memory of Dr Duncan Liddell, Professor of Mathematics and of Medicine in the University of Helmstadt (1591-1607).

Chalmers and Sibbald 1790

The monument is a stone pillar 5.5m high bearing the dates 1614 and 1637.

Visited by OS (EGC) 23 October 1961.

Air photographs: AAS/94/03/G7/8-10, flown 10 February 1994.

NMRS, MS/712/21.

(Newspaper reference cited).

NMRS, MS/712/78.

Liddell's Monument (NAT)

OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2010.