Aberdeen, Greenwelltree, Boundary Marker 34
Boundary Cairn (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Boundary Stone (18th Century) - (19th Century), Boundary Stone (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Aberdeen, Greenwelltree, Boundary Marker 34
Classification Boundary Cairn (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Boundary Stone (18th Century) - (19th Century), Boundary Stone (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen, March Stone 34; Carlet Burn; Chapman Road
Canmore ID 19529
Site Number NJ81SE 26
NGR NJ 85557 10572
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19529
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Newhills
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ81SE 26 85557 10572
See also NJ90NW 135.
Situated on the farm of Greenwelltree near the Garlet Burn at the point where the march reaches the Chapman Road. Marked 34 ABD. A boundary stone in this vicinity is noted in 1525, and in 1698 the boundary was marked by a cairn and a cup-marked stone.
D B Gunn 1929; HBD 1967.
This roughly-hewn granite boundary stone is situated adjacent to the W side of a stone wall about 200m NW of Greenwelltree farmsteading. Rectangular in section, the stone measures 0.31m in breadth by 0.2m in thickness and 0.5m in height. The top of the W face is bevelled and the angled facet bears the incised letters ABD below the number 34.
The cursive style and large size of the letters and the numbers on this stone suggest that it is likely to be of late 18th- or early 19th-century date, and therefore one of the original numbered stones marking the march of the Freedom Lands.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 26 June 1996.
