Stirling, Argyll's Lodging

This boundary stone is one of a series of at least fourteen (numbered from 25 to 38) that demarcated the area containing the military hospital housed in Argyll’s Lodging from 1799 into the early 20th century. Stone 30 is incorporated into a gate pier on the E side and at the S end of an ally that runs between No. 26 Broad Street and Mar Place House. It is a dressed block of sandstone (with a rounded outer corner) measuring 0.46m in breadth by 0.21m in thickness and 0.21m in height, and it is situated 1.46m above the adjacent pavement. On its S face it bears the incised legend 'W’ and ‘D' to either side of an upward pointing arrow, above '30'. The stone is depicted on the OS 25-inch map (Stirlingshire 1947, Sheet n017.03), but it probably dates to the early or mid 19th century.

Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (JRS) 23 May 2017.