Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670640

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ80NE 36 86836 09885

See also NJ90NW 135.

Situated on the N side of the road from Ashtown some 85m E of stone 38 (NJ80NE 35). Marked 39 ABD. The boundary between the Freedom Lands and Craibstone in this vicinity was marked by two cup-marked stones in 1698.

D B Gunn 1929; HBD 1967.

This granite boundary stone is situated on the N side of the public road some 400m NW of Kirkhill Cottage (NJ80NE 89.01), and stands about 85m E of another marker (NJ80NE 35). Rectangular in section, it measures 0.25m in breadth by 0.17m in thickness and 0.78m in height. The top of the S face is bevelled and bears the letters ABD below the number 39. Nothing is now visible of two cup-marked stones that were noted here in 1698.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 19 December 2002.