Archaeology Notes

Event ID 853135

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ62NE 12.00 6623 2972

NJ62NE 12.01 NJ 6623 2972 Pictish Symbol Stone

NJ62NE 12.02 NJ 6623 2972 Stone: ogam-inscribed

(NJ 6623 2972) Sculptured Stones (NAT)

OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1901)

Two sculptured stones, one an Ogham-inscribed stone, known as the Newton stone, the other a Class I symbol stone, as enclosed within an iron railing close to the E side of Newton House.

The former, 6'8" high, originally stood in a plantation near Shevock toll-bar (NJ 6676 2883), on the slope of a hill above Shevock Burn, 3/4 mile S of Newton House. Graves were discovered nearby but their connection with the stone is not proven (Simpson 1943).

The Class I symbol stone, 6' 9" high, with double-disc, Z-rod, and serpent symbols, is said to have been placed on the march between Newton and Rothney, 1/2 mile W of the toll-gate of Shevock about 1 mile S of Newton House. (NJ 66 28.)

J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; W D Simpson 1943.