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Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county, OS Name Books - Aberdeen county - Volume 68 - Parish of Old Deer, OS1/1/68

Continued entries/extra info

[Page] 228
Parish of Old Deer -- Aberdeenshire

[Diagram/drawing of Sculptured Stone AT OLD DEER No. 1 & 2. included on page]

The sculptured stone shown opposite
is no longer in existence: it was unfortunately
broken up for materials, and built into
the wall of a Farm-house on The Estate
of Pitfour: had not the active Secretary
of the Scotch Antiquarian Society, Mr. John
Stuart, discovered it, and had the attached
Sketch taken at the time, (see Vol: [Volume] I
of his magnificient work on the Sculptured
Stones of Scotland) no record of this
very fine Stone would have been preserved
at all.
In his notice on it, Mr. Stuart says
"nothing is known as to the precise original
locality of the Stone at Deer, although it
is very likely to have been near it's present
site. When I saw it a few years ago,
it was placed at the end of a range
of building which formed part of the
[continued on page 229]

Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county, OS Name Books - Aberdeen county - Volume 68 - Parish of Old Deer, OS1/1/68

This volume contains information on Aberdeenshire place names found in the parish of Old Deer.

Ordnance Survey - Aberdeen county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Aberdeen, which is in the north east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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