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Large granite boulder, previously identified as a recumbent stone with cup-marks, forming a boundary marker. A boulder is depicted at this location on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps. It lies to the north of another marker stone site of the 'Great Stone' and the 'Bishop's Cross' (NJ81SW0307). The lands belonging to the Bishop of Aberdeen in the Newhills parish included the Crown land of Bishopston and the southern part of Tyrebagger Hill. These lands were specifically excluded from a charter of 1316, in which the boundary marks of the Bishop's Lands included the 'Bishop's Cross', a large rock (the 'Great Stone') circa 36m to the north, a recumbent stone at another point and certain boundary walls. In the charter the sites are described as lying in 'via regia', the king's highway, the ancient north road between Aberdeen and Inverness. The stone forms part of the boundary of the Lands, which is followed by the line of division between the parishes of Newhills and Dyce. Cruickshank described these sites in 1926, with the recumbent stone as marking the northwestern boundary and surviving intact. He described the ancient road, via regia, surviving in this section as an old track that had continued in use to access the woods and the crofts further to the northwest. It was less than 1.8 m (6 feet) wide, with a solid, well preserved base, almost level the whole way, being formed as a shelf in the brow of the hillside. The OS visited the sites in 1961 and recorded that the recumbent stone measured 5.5 m in length, 2.5 m in width, with three cup-marks and a more recent letter 'M'. A site visit by RCAHMS in September 2001, recorded the 'recumbent' stone identified by Cruikshank, as an erratic granite boulder, measuring circa 5.8 m from north northeast to south southwest, by 3.2 m transversely and up to 1.6 m in height, with an incised letter 'M' circa 260 mm in height, and several natural cup-marks. Situated immediately east of the corner of an improved field 120 m south of Gueval Croft (NJ81SW0225), on the steeply sloping east southeast face, which is heavily moss covered.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
Aberdeen City
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NJ81SW0017 - BISHOP'S LANDS, TYREBAGGER HILL