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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| SCULPTURED STONES [Newton House] | Sculptured Stones Sculptured Stones Sculptured Stones Newton Stone Newton Stone |
Alexander Gordon Esq. Newton House. Mr Duncan Gordon, Newton House. Mr John Jesseman North Ledkin The Spalding Club. Aberdeen. Ancient Pillar stones of Scotland by George Moore, M.D. [Doctor of Medicine] |
044 | Two large stones standing in front of the Laundry at Newton, One has a lot of *Hebrew Letters on it, and the other the figure of a snake cut on it. The one with the letters on it is called the Newton Stone and the other is called the Stone with the Newton Stone. This inscribed Pillar, as well as the Monument in Plate XXXVII [37], is now erected near to the House of Newton, the residence of Alexander Gordon Esq. in the parish of Culsalmond, in the District of Garioch, Aberdeenshire; but they were both removed from earlier, and, probably, original sites. The former stood on a spot surrounded by wood, close to the present tollgate of Shevak, about a mile south of the house of Newton, and has been removed from this site within the last twenty years. From Its proximity to the Inn and the Farm of Pitmachie it has occasionally been called the Pitmachie Stone. When the ground on which it stood was in the course of being trenched, several graves were described to me as having been made in the hard gravel, without any appearance of flagstones at the sides or elsewhere. The other stone is said to have been placed on the march between the Lands of Rothney and Newton, about half a mile westward from the inscribed pillar, but was removed to the House of Newton upwards of sixty years ago. Extract from (The Spalding Club) Sculptured Stones of Scotand page 1. |
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[Page] 64Aberdeenshire Parish of Culsamond
*The letters are very much like Greek characters to my eye, & in this respect they should be ascribed to the Druids viz [Cresars's] account. [See Pages 8 & 9 Sir H. James's notes relating to the Druids 1867] E.H.Courtney Capt. R.E. [Captain Royal Engineers]
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