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Mona Gowan, Boundary Stone

Boundary Stone (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Mona Gowan, Boundary Stone

Classification Boundary Stone (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 139622

Site Number NJ30NW 57

NGR NJ 33613 05796

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Strathdon
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Gordon
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Accessing Scotland's Past Project

A granite boundary stone on the summit of Mona Gowan marked the march between Inverernan and Candacraig, or possibly Carvie, estates in the late nineteenth century. Rectangular in section, the stone stands to a height of 0.55m and bears the letter I on its west face and the letter C on the east. The number fourteen carved into the flat top of the stone indicates the number of this marker in a series of similar stones.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

Archaeology Notes

NJ30NW 57 3361 0580

Stone [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1972.

This boundary stone is situated on the summit of Mona Gowan at a height of about 749m OD. It is a flat-topped granite block of rectangular section, measuring about 0.25m in breadth by 0.15m in thickness and 0.55m in height. It bears an incised letter I (Inverernan) on the W face and the letter C (possibly Candacraig or Carvie) on the E. On the top of the stone there is the number 14.

The stone is first depicted on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1902, sheet lxix).

Visited by RCAHMS (SPH), 1 April 1998.

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