Aberdeenshire HER - NO88NE0003 - STONEHAVEN

Main Details

Primary Reference	NO88NE0003
Name	STONEHAVEN
NMRS Card No.	NO88NE3
NMRS Numlink	36909
Site Form	Documentary Record Only
Site Condition	Unlocated
Details	Supposed site of plague burial-ground, now occupied by modern buildings and gardens. Two gravestones were found about 1842 and are now set into the east wall of a public footpath at NO8741 8552 ( NO88NE0274). One bore the inscription '...Magnus Tailiour ... depairit in November..of Pest... Memento Mori 1608'. The other commemorated two children who died in 1648, also of the plague.
Last Update	30/04/2021

National Grid Reference: NO 8740 8551

Easting: 0, Northing: 0

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Event Details

Excavations and Surveys

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Palynology
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Monument Types

Monument Type 1	Monument Type 2	Monument Type 3	Order	Probability
CEMETERIES	PLAGUE	SITE OF	A	100
STONES	GRAVE		B	100

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Photo Details

Bibliographic Detail

Bib Ref No	Title	Author	Date	Others	Editor	Published	Details	Date M	Date Y
01656	Ordnance Name Book					EDINBURGH	No19(1864) 29		1866
01557	New Statistical Account					EDINBURGH	(1843) 222
00513	STONEHAVEN, HISTORICAL & DESCRIPTIVE	F. C. EELES	1897			ABERDEEN	20		1897
03317	Scottish Burgh Survey: Historic Stonehaven	R Gourlay	1978	y					1978

Location

Historic Administrative Area Name	Fetteresso
Positional Accuracy	Centred at
Buffer Zone	15-20m
Buffer Type	Automated
Capture Scale	Unknown
Spatial Feature Type	Polygon: Unknown Extent

Environment

Constraints	No access.
Altitude	15
Geology
Topography	Moderate Slope
Aspect 1	S
Aspect 2	Closed
Current Land Use	Urban
Vegetation
Soil Type
Hydrology

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Historic Land Use

Period Details

Period	Order	Probability	Radiocarbon Dates	Date Built	Date of Destruction	Date of Loss
Post-Medieval (from 1560 AD)	A	100

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