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Peebles, Innerleithen Road, The White Stone

Boundary Marker (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Peebles, Innerleithen Road, The White Stone

Classification Boundary Marker (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Whitestone Park

Canmore ID 51445

Site Number NT24SE 10

NGR NT 25728 40354

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Peebles
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Tweeddale
  • Former County Peebles-shire

Archaeology Notes

NT24SE 10 25728 40354

The White Stone [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, May 2010.

This stone was an ancient boundary-mark of the burgh of Peebles, and in 1462 it is referred to as "the Quhyt Stane on the northt half of the gat rekand to the Wenlaw". It is a glacial erratic of white quartz measuring about 1.0m by 0.7m and having a girth of about 2.5m. The stone has been set up on a pedestal, immediately opposite the entrance to Peebles Hydropathic, in an alcove formed in the boundary-wall on the S side of the road to Innerleithen.

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1958.

As described.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS 5 March 1962.

Activities

Sbc Note (15 April 2016)

Visibility: Standing structure or monument.

Information from Scottish Borders Council

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