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Whitehouse
Cannon Ball (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Whitehouse
Classification Cannon Ball (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 18073
Site Number NJ61SW 2
NGR NJ 6283 1461
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18073
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Tough
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ61SW 2 6283 1461.
(NJ 6283 1461) Cannon Ball found AD 1862 (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1959)
A cannonball found in 1862 while workmen were making the road.
Name Book 1865.
Unimportant antiquity.
Visited by OS (NKB) 7 February 1968.
The present whereabouts of this cannonball, which was found in 1862, is not known.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 18 November 1999.
