SM4263 Lang Stane Standing Stone Hilton Drive Aberdeen
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FURTHER INFORMATION This publication was produced by: Masterplanning, Design and Conservation Team Planning and Sustainable Development Communities, Housing and Infrastructure Aberdeen City Council Business Hub 4 Ground Floor North Marischal College Broad Street Aberdeen SM8438 AB10 1AB Aberdeenshire Canal Milestone 9 Dyce Parish Church Telephone: 03000 200 292 Victoria Street E-mail: [email protected] Dyce
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SM Name Type Description Web X Y Ref. Coordinates Coordinates No. 22 Standingstones Prehistoric A circle of stones on Tyrebagger Hill, is in a very conspicuous http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 385950 813212 Stone Circle, ritual and position. The stones vary in height. The recumbent stone is designation/SM22 300m NNW of funerary: stone canted upon a bedding of small stones. farm, Dyce, circle or ring. Aberdeen 43 Rough's Cairn Secular: The monument comprises the remains of a consumption dyke at http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 387625 807849 Consumption consumption Kingswells, known as Rough's Cairn, after its creator Alexander designation/SM43 Dykes, dyke. Rough. The dyke is visible as two drystone structures, the E Kingswells, section of monumental scale. Aberdeen 53 Cairnside Prehistoric The monument comprises a well-preserved long burial cairn of http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 385116 807057 (formerly West ritual and the Neolithic period, which survives as an upstanding monument designation/SM53 Hatton Croft) funerary: long within the farmed landscape. Long Cairn cairn 155m WNW of 108 Kingswells Secular: The monument comprises two separate clearance or consumption http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 386192 806969 Consumption consumption dykes dating to the mid-19th century AD. The dykes are visible designation/SM108 Dykes, 415m N dyke as six upstanding, deliberately truncated drystone wall sections. and 685m NNE of Home Farm 1907 Mote Hill Prehistoric The monument comprises a prominent conical mound situated http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 393664 808866 Palisaded domestic and within Seaton Park in Aberdeen. The mound stands on the edge designation/SM1907 Settlement defensive: of a steep, NE-facing slope running down to the River Dee, while and Cairn, palisaded the remaining approaches to the mound are open and relatively Tillydrone Road, settlement, flat. Aberdeen Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn. 2478 Normandykes Roman: camp The Roman Marching Camp of Normandykes was proved by http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 382980 799399 Roman Camp, excavation in 1935. It encloses an area of 120 acres and is designation/SM2478 Peterculter, probably Antonine or Severan in date. It has six gates defended Aberdeen by tutuli. 3283 Dubford Prehistoric Only one stone remains of the former stone circle. It stands erect http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 394005 813098 Standing Stone ritual and on fairly level ground in the pasture field. designation/SM3283 400m N of funerary: The Bungalow, standing stone Sheilhill Road 3744 Pitfoddels Secular: motte The monument comprises the remains of a medieval motte and http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 391035 802973 Castle Motte bailey castle which controlled a nearby ford across the River Dee. designation/SM3744 - east of The motte comprises an irregular oval mound. Norwood Hall Hotel, Garthdee Road
l Page 3 Scheduled Monuments in Aberdeen City l www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/masterplanning 3956 Bieldside Cairn, Prehistoric The monument is a substantial prehistoric burial cairn. The http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 388341 802803 Cairn Crescent, ritual and monument is a substantial mound of loose stones. designation/SM3956 Cults, Aberdeen funerary: cairn 4055 Loirston Prehistoric The monument comprises the remains of a massive stone- http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 395902 804103 Country Park - ritual and built burial cairn, situated on the N facing slope of Tullos Hill designation/SM4055 Tullos Cairn funerary: cairn overlooking Nigg Bay. 4060 Loirston Prehistoric The monument comprises a stone-built, roughly circular burial http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 396325 803750 Country Park - ritual and cairn situated on Tullos Hill, towards the end of an elevated ridge designation/SM4060 Crab's Cairn funerary: cairn with a view over Nigg Bay. 4125 Loirston Prehistoric The monument comprises the remains of a massive burial cairn http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 395190 803173 Country Park - ritual and of bare stones, situated on Tullos Hill, on a knoll at the SW end of designation/SM4125 Cat Cairn funerary: cairn an elevated ridge. 4126 Loirston Prehistoric The monument comprises a massive stone cairn, situated on a http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 395770 803692 Country Park - ritual and prominent knoll with a view over Nigg Bay. designation/SM4126 Baron's Cairn funerary: cairn 4263 Lang Stane Prehistoric The monument is a substantial standing stone, probably of http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 392236 808358 Standing Stone, ritual and Neolithic or Bronze Age date. It is believed to stand on its original designation/SM4263 Hilton Drive, funerary: site. Aberdeen standing stone 7583 Aberdeenshire Industrial: The section of the Aberdeenshire Canal that survives N and E of http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 387583 814569 Canal - inland water Tillybrig Cottage is represented by an earthwork, which traverses designation/SM7583 Remains the southern part of a field lying immediately N of the railway of, N and E line. of Tillybrig Cottage, Dyce 8420 Aberdeenshire Industrial: The monument comprises of milestone 7 and half, of the http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 388874 813399 Canal - inland water; Aberdeenshire Canal. A granite column some 0.5m high and 0.3m designation/SM8420 Milestone 7 1/2, milestone, in diameter, with a rounded top, inscribed on a round sloping 17 Fetach Walk, guide plate, panel. Dyce direction post 8421 Aberdeenshire Industrial: The section of the Aberdeenshire canal that survives between http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 385091 815452 Canal - inland water Woodland's Wood and Beidleston farm is represented by a curving designation/SM8421 Remains of, earthwork, partly water-filled, running approximately E-W. At two Beidleston to points it is cut and overlain by the railway embankment. Woodland's Wood 8428 Aberdeenshire Industrial: The monument comprises of milestone 10, of the Aberdeenshire http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 385700 815080 Canal - inland water; Canal. A granite column some 0.6m high and 0.3m in diameter, designation/SM8428 Milestone 10, milestone, with a rounded top, inscribed on a round sloping panel. Shady Neuk, guide plate, Beidleston, direction post Dyce 8434 Aberdeenshire Industrial: The monument comprises of milestone 5 and half, of the http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 389350 811142 Canal - inland water; Aberdeenshire Canal. A granite column some 0.5m high and 0.3m designation/SM8434 Milestone 5 1/2, milestone, in diameter, with a rounded top, inscribed on a round sloping off Stoneywood guide plate, panel. Terrace, Dyce direction post
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8435 Aberdeenshire Industrial: The monument comprises of milestone 4 and half, of the http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 389726 809924 Canal - inland water; Aberdeenshire Canal. A granite column some 0.45m high and designation/SM8435 Milestone 4 1/2, milestone, 0.3m in diameter, with a rounded top, inscribed on a round 15 Mugiemoss guide plate, sloping panel. Road, direction post Bucksburn 8438 Aberdeenshire Industrial: The monument comprises of milestone 9, of the Aberdeenshire http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 388705 813027 Canal - inland water; Canal. A granite column some 0.5m high and 0.3m in diameter, designation/SM8438 Milestone 9, milestone, with a rounded top, inscribed on a round sloping panel. Dyce Parish guide plate, Church, Victoria direction post Street 8843 St Fergus's Crosses and The monument consists of the remains of St Fergus's Church (the http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 387523 815408 Church Old carved stones: old parish church of Dyce) and its burial ground. Two large Pictish designation/SM8843 Parish Church symbol stone, symbol stones and four smaller cross-inscribed stones from the and graveyard, Ecclesiastical: site are in the care of the Scottish Ministers. Pitmedden burial ground, Road, Dyce cemetery, graveyard; church 9215 Torry Battery, 20th Century The monument comprises the remains of a military battery, http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 396543 805631 Greyhope Road, Military and constructed over the period 1857-1861. Staffed on a permanent designation/SM9215 Torry, Aberdeen Related: basis throughout WW I and WW II. The extant remains comprise Battery, the perimeter wall, the gateway and the guardhouse, gun mounts Secular: battery and the footings of some of the interior buildings. 9245 The Slacks, Prehistoric The monument comprises a circular burial cairn, three certain http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 384231 814314 Kirkhill Forest domestic and hut circles, a further four possible hut circles and a cairnfield, designation/SM9245 Burial Cairn, defensive: field all surviving within woodland as upstanding monuments. The Hut Circles and clearance cairn, substantial burial cairn, comprised entirely of stones. Cairnfield cairnfield; hut circle, roundhouse, Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn 10374 Aberdeenshire Industrial: The monument comprises an early nineteenth-century canal http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 383251 815287 Canal - Bridge, bridge, viaduct, bridge, built to take the Aberdeenshire Canal. The bridge, visible designation/SM10374 Pitmedden aqueduct; as an upstanding structure, lies some 160m SSW of Kinaldie Road, Dyce inland water Home Farm. Today the bridge carries a minor road over the Black Burn. 10378 Aberdeenshire Industrial: The monument comprises an early nineteenth-century canal http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 389787 809714 Canal - Bridge, bridge, viaduct, bridge, built to take the Aberdeenshire Canal. The bridge, visible designation/SM10378 Station Road, aqueduct; as an upstanding structure, now lies in the built-up area of Bucksburn inland water Bucksburn, some 60m SSE of St Machar's Church.
l Page 5 Scheduled Monuments in Aberdeen City l www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/masterplanning 10400 St Fittick's Ecclesiastical: The monument comprises the remains of St Fittick's Church and http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 396274 804964 Church, St. burial ground, its graveyard, visible as an upstanding monument. St Fittick's designation/SM10400 Fittick's Road, cemetery, Church lies on open ground, adjacent to Balnagask golf course, Torry, Aberdeen graveyard; overlooking Nigg Bay. church 10403 Balnagask Secular: motte The monument comprises a motte of medieval date, visible as http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 395743 805110 Motte, Baxter a substantial grass-covered mound. The motte lies within the designation/SM10403 Place, Torry, grounds of Balnagask House. The motte would have occupied a Aberdeen prominent position overlooking the Dee Estuary and Nigg Bay. 10424 Aberdeenshire Industrial: The monument comprises the remains of a section of the http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 392249 809025 Canal - bridge, viaduct, Aberdeenshire Canal and a bridge, visible as an earthwork and designation/SM10424 Remains of, aqueduct; an upstanding structure respectively. This well-preserved section Station Road, inland water of the lies in a grass-covered playing field on the N side of Great Woodside, Northern Road, Woodside. Aberdeen 10446 St Mary's Ecclesiastical: The monument comprises the remains of a 14th-century chapel http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 386634 811173 Chapel and burial ground, and graveyard, visible as upstanding remains. The monument designation/SM10446 graveyard, cemetery, is situated on a moderate S-facing slope, enclosed by a 19th- Chapel of graveyard; century stone wall. It lies near the Inverurie road at Chapel Farm. Stoneywood, chapel; well Aberdeen 11175 Contlaw Mains Prehistoric The monument comprises the remains of a hut circle of late http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 384138 803096 Hut Circle 355m domestic and Bronze-Age or Iron-Age date. It is visible as a low, grass-covered designation/SM11175 ENE of farm, defensive: penannular stony bank. The monument lies on the NE face of Contlaw Road, hut circle, Beans Hill. Aberdeen roundhouse 11177 Binghill House Prehistoric The monument comprises a recumbent stone circle surrounding a http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 385550 802381 Stone Circle ritual and ring-cairn, and a burial cairn to the east. The monuments lies on designation/SM11177 & Cairn 200m funerary: cairn; a slight slope, within the wooded policies of Binghill, the surviving WSW of, stone circle or portion of a small surviving prehistoric landscape on this ridge N Binghill Road ring of the River Dee. 12314 Easterhill Hut Prehistoric The monument comprises the remains of seven hut circles and a http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 379029 803431 Circles 290m domestic and field system likely to be Late Bronze Age or Iron Age in date. The designation/SM12314 ENE of, Milton defensive: field field system includes rig-and-furrow, cairns, stony banks and at of Drum Road, clearance cairn, least one lynchet. The hut circles are visible as three interrupted Aberdeen cairnfield; field and four apparently uninterrupted sub-circular rings of turf- or field system; covered stone and earth. At least two of the cairns may represent hut circle, the remains of prehistoric burial mounds, similar to the one roundhouse, immediately to the east. Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn 12342 Loirston Prehistoric The monument comprises a burial cairn of probable Bronze-Age http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 395357 803314 Country Park - ritual and date and part of a consumption dyke of post-medieval date. It designation/SM12342 Cairn and Dyke funerary: survives as a prominent circular mound of turf-and gorse-covered 220m NE of Cat cairn. Secular: loose stones and two sections of adjoining low dyke, each with Cairn consumption rubble infill. The cairn and dyke are located on open ground on a dyke low ridge, running NE-SW and overlooking Nigg bay.
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12345 Gouk Stone Prehistoric The monument comprises a large single standing stone likely http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 383450 815168 Standing Stone, ritual and to date to the late Neolithic or Bronze Age. It survives as an designation/SM12345 Pitmedden funerary: upstanding monolith incorporated into a broadly E- to W-running Road, Dyce, standing stone stone dyke that separates two cultivated fields. Aberdeen 12351 Benthoull Croft Prehistoric The monument comprises the remains of a cairn of probable http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 379503 803591 Cairn 140m W ritual and neolithic or Bronze-Age date. It survives as a stony mound in a designation/SM12351 of Benthoull funerary: cairn forestry plantation. Croft, Anguston Road 12363 Woodlands Prehistoric The monument comprises three hut circles, a type of stone- http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 384893 815130 Croft Hut domestic and walled house dating to the later prehistoric period. Associated designation/SM12363 Circle and defensive: field stone linear banks adjoin two of the hut circles and may form an Field System or field system; enclosure or other boundary feature. The group is located on the 275m SSE of hut circle, NW end of the long, flat top of an unnamed hill. Woodlands roundhouse 12364 Woodlands Prehistoric The monument comprises the remains of a hut circle, a stone- http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 384654 814424 Farm Hut Circle domestic and walled house dating to the later prehistoric period, visible as designation/SM12364 665m WSW defensive: upstanding stony banks. It is located on a gently sloping terrace of Woodlands hut circle, on the E side of Blue Hill. Farm, Dyce roundhouse 12429 Little Clinterty Prehistoric The monument comprises a single standing stone likely to date http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 383123 812078 Standing Stone ritual and to the late neolithic or Bronze Age. It survives as an upstanding designation/SM12429 20m E of Little funerary: monolith at the NE corner of a private garden that lies south of Clinterty Farm standing stone Blackburn and the River Don. 12439 Hillhead of Prehistoric The monument comprises the remains of a hut circle of late http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 384641 810458 Clinterty Hut domestic and Bronze-Age or Iron-Age date, visible as a low heather and gorse- designation/SM12439 Circle 135m defensive: covered annular bank. It lies on the NW flank of Elrick Hill. SSW of Hillhead hut circle, of Clinterty roundhouse 12442 Little Eddieston Prehistoric The monument comprises the remains of a hut circle of late http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 379009 802234 Cottage Hut domestic and Bronze-Age or Iron-Age date, visible as a low, grass-covered designation/SM12442 Circle 155m defensive: annular stony bank. The monument lies on a small plateau NE of Little hut circle, halfway up the SW-facing flank of a hill. Eddieston roundhouse 12452 Foucausie Prehistoric The monument comprises the remains of a hut circle of late http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 390778 811903 Hut Circle domestic and Bronze-Age or Iron-Age date. It is visible a low, scrub- and tree- designation/SM12452 250m SSE defensive: covered penannular stony bank. The monument lies in woodland of Foucausie hut circle, on the NW face of a hill east of the River Don. House, Upper roundhouse Persley Road 12549 Little Eddieston Secular: The monument comprises the remains of at least three structures http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 379147 802073 Cottage farmstead forming a pre-Improvement farmstead. The farmstead is located designation/SM12549 Farmstead on a S-facing slope north of the Gormack Burn. 235m E of Little Eddieston
l Page 7 Scheduled Monuments in Aberdeen City l www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/masterplanning 90001 St Machar's Ecclesiastical: The monument comprises those elements of St Machar's http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/ 393915 808761 Cathedral and cathedral Cathedral that are not in ecclesiastical use as the parish church designation/SM90001 graveyard, The of Old Machar, the ground underlying the whole of the Cathedral Chanonry, Old (both parish church and elements not in ecclesiastical use) and Aberdeen the surrounding graveyard, excluding lairs for which burial rights survive at the date of scheduling. SM Name Type Description Web X Y Ref. Coordinates Coordinates No.
SM8843 St Fergus’s Church Old Parish Church and graveyard, Pitmedden Road, Dyce
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