Archaeology Notes

Event ID 861525

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ81NW 20 8345 1516

(NJ 8345 1516) Gouk Stone (NAT)

OS 6" map (1928)

The Gouk Stone is a standing stone 8 feet high and 2 feet square at the base, of which little is known. The Statistical Account (OSA) describe it as a stone 9 feet high, and the New Statistical Account (NSA) calls it 'a large shapeless block of granite'. Both agree that it commemorates a general who was slain near it. The NSA states also that the tradition about this stone is now forgotten, and its original site is unknown. It is now incorporated in a wall.

OSA 1792; NSA 1845; Name Book 1864.

The Gouk Stone now forms part of a field dyke, but stands upright to a height of 3.2m; it is 1.3m broad and 0.9m thick. The stone is unmarked.

Visited by OS (EGC) 25 October 1961.

This standing stone is situated on a NW-facing slope 240m SE of Kinaldie Home Farm steading (NJ81NW 49.02). Measuring 1.3m by 1m at ground level, it stands about 2.9m in height.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 20 November 1996.

Scheduled as 'Gouk Stone... a large single standing stone... [which] survives as an upstanding monolith incorporated into a broadly E to W running stone dyke that separates two cultivated fields... SSW of Hatton of Fintray, at 75m above sea level on N-facing, gently sloping ground above the southern river terrace of the River Don. The earthfast granite boulder measures 3m high by 1.3m wide and 1m broad. It tapers inwards from its base towards its top where it is roughly conical shaped.'

Information from from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 26 September 2008.