Archaeology Notes

Event ID 679437

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN90NW 3 9243 0980 and 9211 0962

'A' (NN 9211 0962) Standing Stone (NAT)

'B' (NN 9243 0980) Standing Stone (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1959)

('A') Standing stone, somewhat cylindrical in form and tilted towards the west, 3ft 10ins high. Similar to 'B' but has no artificial markings.

('B') Two symbols have been incised on the north side of what was very probably a pre-existing standing stone.

Assigned to Allen and Anderson (1903) Class I of Symbol Stones - the earliest type and presumably pre-Christian.

C S T Calder 1949.

These stones are generally as described by Calder.

Visited by OS (W D J) 21 June 1967.

The western of the two stones at Peterhead, which for many years had leaned to the SW, fell over in 1990. The stone was re-erected by the farmer and the HBM (HS) Area Inspector, the socket having been examined and found to be ill-defined and empty of artefacts or bone.

Sponsor: Historic Buildings and Monuments (HS).

G J Barclay 1990.

Class I symbol stone.On the NNE face are a goose over a rectangle.

A Mack 1997

(Index no. 4061; location cited as NN 921 096). Scheduled as 'Peterhead, standing stone 350m NNW of...'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 30 March 2009.