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Aberdeen, Golf Road, Boundary Marker 63

Boundary Stone (20th Century), Boundary Stone (18th Century) - (19th Century), Boundary Stone (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Site Name Aberdeen, Golf Road, Boundary Marker 63

Classification Boundary Stone (20th Century), Boundary Stone (18th Century) - (19th Century), Boundary Stone (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen, March Stone 63; Pittodrie Football Ground.

Canmore ID 20061

Site Number NJ90NW 157

NGR NJ 94885 07577

NGR Description Removed from NJ 9484 0758

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Aberdeen, City Of
  • Parish Aberdeen
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District City Of Aberdeen
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ90NW 157 94885 07577 Removed from NJ 9484 0758

See also NJ90NW 135.

Situated in Golf Road at the rear entrance to Pittodrie football ground. Marked 63 ABD CR. In 1698, the boundary here was indicated by an earhtfast stone, 'marked with ane sauser and an key'.

D B Gunn (ed.) 1929; HBD List 1965.

(Location formerly cited as NJ 948 076: amended to NJ 9484 0758 removed to NJ 94885 07577). This granite boundary stone is situated immediately E of Pittodrie Football Stadium and is a modern replacement of the original late 18th/early 19th-century marker, which is now lost. Rectangular in section, the stone measures 0.3m in breadth by 0.15m in thickness and 0.51m in height. The top of the E face is bevelled and bears the incised letters ABD below the number 63; the initials CR, standing for 'City Royalty', are incised on the vertical face below. There is now no trace of the boulder that was marked with a 'sauser and an key' and mentioned in 1698.

The present location of the boundary stone (NJ 94885 07577) lies some 40m ESE from its position (NJ 9484 0758) depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1869, sheet lxxv).

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 24 March 1997.

J Cruickshank and D B Gunn 1929.

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Field Visit (24 March 1997)

This granite boundary stone is situated immediately E of Pittodrie Football Stadium and is a modern replacement of the original late 18th/early 19th-century marker, which is now lost. Rectangular in section, the stone measures 0.3m in breadth by 0.15m in thickness and 0.51m in height. The top of the E face is bevelled and bears the incised letters ABD below the number 63; the initials CR, standing for 'City Royalty', are incised on the vertical face below. There is now no trace of the boulder that was marked with a 'sauser and an key' and mentioned in 1698.

The present location of the boundary stone (NJ 94885 07577) lies some 40m ESE from its position (NJ 9484 0758) depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1869, sheet lxxv).

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 24 March 1997.

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