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The Tow Stone
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name The Tow Stone
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Knowley; Tow Standing Stone
Canmore ID 19129
Site Number NJ73SW 13
NGR NJ 7010 3352
NGR Description Removed to NJ 6993 3334
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19129
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fyvie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ73SW 13 7010 3352 removed to NJ 6993 3334
(Formerly recorded as NJ63SE 26).
According to the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB 1867) this is a large undressed boulder, 3 feet (0.91m) high and 2 feet (0.61m) square, but Coles (1903) describes it as over 6 feet (1.83m) high and about 6 feet (1.83m) in girth.
Name Book 1867; F R Coles 1903.
Tow Standing Stone, as described by Coles, now lies prone, but intact, behind the farmbuildings of Knowley, at NJ 6993 3334.
Visited by OS (NKB) 18 February 1969.
Noted by GRC/AAS as their site NJ63SE 18 at cited location NJ 6993 3334.
NMRS, MS/712/73.
This standing stone, which was moved some years ago from its original position about 280m W of Baldyquash farmsteading (NJ73SW 62), now lies at the edge of a small field of pasture behind Knowley farmsteading (NJ 6993 3334). The granite pillar measures up to 0.62m in breadth by 0.55m in thickness and 2.5m in length.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 10 September 2002.
