Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671803

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ90NW 168 93768 05973

(Location cited as NJ c. 938 060). Wyness shows the Lang Stane (which he suggests was part of a stone circle) on a sketch plan of Aberdeen, on the north side of Windmill Brae. His photograph shows it 'on its original site before being built into the niche at the rear of Messrs. Watt and Grant's building'. It is marked on Paterson's plan of Aberdeen (1746).

F Wyness 1966.

Situated within wall of 10 Langstane Place; 5ft 10ins rough granite slab.

HBD List 1965.

NJ 9376 0597 Stone, 'Langstane'.

D I Harding 1997.

This granite boulder is set into an alcove at the SE corner of 10 Langstane Place. It measures 1.8m in height by 0.68m in breadth and at least 0.3m in thickness; on the front face of the stone is the incised legend 'LANGSTANE'

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 26 February 1997.