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Aboyne Castle

Cross Slab (Early Medieval)

Site Name Aboyne Castle

Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)

Canmore ID 35299

Site Number NO59NW 3

NGR NO 5240 9899

NGR Description Removed to NO 5250 9898

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Glenmuick, Tullich And Glengairn
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Kincardine And Deeside
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NO59NW 3 5240 9899 removed to 5250 9898.

(NO 5240 9899) Sculptured Cross (NAT) (sic)

(Cross on Face) (NAT)

Removed from Loch Kinord (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1959)

Intermediate site of the upright cross-slab from NO49NW 14. It was moved to this site in the 19th century, but by 1955 it had been removed to NO 5250 9898. It was restored to approximately its original position in September 1959 by Sir M Barclay Harvey of Dinnet, where it now stands within a railed enclosure at NO 4400 9988.

Name Book 1865; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; HBD list No. 5.

Information from OS revisor (D A) 14 July 1955.

Activities

Field Visit (17 July 1971)

Still at NO 4400 9988.

Visited by OS (I S S) 17 July 1971.

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