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Aberdeen, 8-16 Marchburn Drive, Boundary Marker 48
Boundary Stone (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Boundary Stone (20th Century), Boundary Stone (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Site Name Aberdeen, 8-16 Marchburn Drive, Boundary Marker 48
Classification Boundary Stone (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Boundary Stone (20th Century), Boundary Stone (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen, March Stone 48; Boundary Stone No. 48; Oldtown Place
Canmore ID 20185
Site Number NJ90NW 61
NGR NJ 90516 08716
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20185
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90NW 61 90516 08716
See also NJ90NW 135.
(Location cited as NJ c. 9053 0872). Situated on the N side of Marchburn Drive at its junction with Oldtow n Place. Marked 48 ABD. In 1929, the cup-marked boundary stone noted in 1698 lay beside this stone.
D B Gunn 1929; HBD List 1965.
(Location cited as NJ 9053 0872; additional bibliography cited).
NMRS, MS/712/83.
(Formerly classified as boundary marker at cite location NJ 9053 0872). This boundary stone is situated on a lawn at the SE corner of the garden of 8-16 Marchburn Drive, close to the junction with Oldtown Place. The style of the stone suggests that it is a relatively recent replacement of the late-18th-/early-19th-century stone which formerly stood here. Rectangular in section, the stone measures 0.31m in breadth by 0.13m in thickness and 0.55m in height. The top of the E face is bevelled and bears the incised letters ABD below the number 48. A previous account (Kennedy 1818) mentions a boulder bearing a single cupmark close to the stone, but Cruickshank and Gunn (1929, 32) make no mention of such a stone.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 27 February, 1997.
W Kennedy 1818.
