Haddo House, Deer Park, The Avenue, Pair Of Stags
Statue (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Haddo House, Deer Park, The Avenue, Pair Of Stags
Classification Statue (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Haddo House Policies; Deer Park
Canmore ID 146006
Site Number NJ83SE 42.19
NGR NJ 87988 34120
NGR Description NJ 87988 34120 and NJ 87981 34107
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/146006
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Tarves
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Fountain, mid-19th century; part of landscape furniture of park, which includes The Avenue, with the 'Golden Gates', c.1847, J & W Smith; delicate cast-iron work including an oversailing coat of arms; four rusticated gatepiers. Pair of Stags, (?)c.1847, J & W Smith, lightness of the rendering of the roe deer contrasts with the monumental granite plinths on which they appear to have momentarily alighted. Urn (terminates avenue and closes long vista from house), 1847, J & W Smith, truly massive granite urn on large square plinth, inscribed GEORGIUS MES ABREDON ENSIS. MDCCCXLVII HAUD
IMMEMOR: George, the fourth earl in sorrowful reflection?
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
Excavation (11 July 2017 - 30 August 2017)
A programme of Archaeological Survey Assessment was undertaken to consider the Historic Environment within the Haddo House Deer Park and a linked Community Excavation that was part of the Haddo Regeneration Project.
The project was to be publicised and promoted as an element of the Haddo Regeneration Project and as part of The Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology.
Both The Pheasantry and Deer Park Wall Trenches revealed evidence for the structures that had been depicted on the 1st and 2nd edition Ordnance Surveys (1871, 1900) and supported where their locations were.
Although no archaeological features were recorded in the Footbridge Trench to support the idea that the earthwork was associated with an early phase of Deer Pak Wall, the fact that nothing was recorded apart from natural deposits has enabled us to conclude that the earthwork is possibly linked to 19th century activity on the Burn of Kelly.
