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West Cults
Findspot (19th Century), Rotary Quern (Period Unassigned)
Site Name West Cults
Classification Findspot (19th Century), Rotary Quern (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 19382
Site Number NJ80SE 20
NGR NJ 889 023
NGR Description NJ c. 889 023
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19382
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Peterculter
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ80SE 20 c. 889 023.
The upper and lower stones of a rotary quern about 18 1/2 ins in diameter were found (possibly about 1870) in a piece of 'mossy ground' in the hollow below West Cults. They are now the property of the author, and are to be presented to the Aberdeen Public Museum.
J A Henderson 1890
There is an unrecorded rotary quern in the Aberdeen Public Museum which may be the one recorded above. No other information was discovered.
Visited by OS (JLD) 31 July 1952.
This quern has not been identified in the collection of either Marischal Museum or Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 5 September 2003.
