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Freedom Lands and Marches of Aberdeen: March Stone 14
2560 On the farm of Hillhead of Cults, on the east side of wall on the edge of a field north west of the farm buildings. CITIZENS OF POLAND WHO WERE FROM ABERDEEN
2877 There are many others who have traveled from Aberdeen to Poland and made successful careers. Some of these people being:
John Burnet (b. 1603)
John Burnet was from Aberdeen. Burnet was made citizen of Krakow in 1617. He had traded 10 Polish florins, a gun, and half a stone of gunpowder in return for citizenship.
Sir George Skene of Rubislaw (1619-1707)
Sir George was a former Danzig merchant who later became the Provost of Aberdeen 1676-1685. George Skene had arrived in Poland with his step-brother and apprenticed him to George Edie in Danzig.
William Forbes (1566-1627)
William Forbes was the founder of Craigevar Family and former merchant. With the riches he had acquired in Poland he bought many estates in Aberdeenshire. He was also known as "Danzig Willie" and "Willie the Merchant".
John Turner
Turner, also a former merchant in Poland, was a benefactor of the Marischal College. In 1688, he left 4 bursaries to Marischal College and his coat of arms can be seen in the historical window in Mitchell Hall.
John Craig (b. 1587)
John Craig was a trader in Krakow. He paid 10 Hungarian Florins to become a citizen of Poland.
George Crukshank (b. 1686)
Crukshank was a merchant in Krakow who paid 100 florins plus an additional 14 florins instead of the usually required gun and gunpowder.
The image on the left is a reproduction of a portrait of George Skene by George Jamieson. It is from Alexander Munro's Memorials of the Aldermen, Provosts, and Lord Provosts of Aberdeen, 1272-1895 (1897). March Stone 6 (plus intermediate stone)
3182 This stone is located in the back garden of No.11 Hammerfield Avenue. It is marked '6 ABD'. This photo also shows an intermediate marker located behind the more modern stone.
In 1698 the sixth stone is described as "ane great craige stone, wherein there is an sauser and four witter holes, and ane carne beside the same...".
A slide of this image was kindly lent to Aberdeen City Libraries by Colin Johnston so that we could create a digital copy for public use.
The image was taken in the early 1980s when Colin worked as a teacher at Bridge of Don Academy. He led several current and former pupils, and staff members in an investigation into the location, physical condition and public knowledge of Aberdeen's historic boundary markers. March Stone 6 (plus intermediate stone)
3183 This stone is located in the back garden of No.11 Hammerfield Avenue. It is marked '6 ABD'.
In 1698 described as "ane great craige stone, wherein there is an sauser and four witter holes, and ane carne beside the same...".
A slide of this image was kindly lent to Aberdeen City Libraries by Colin Johnston so that we could create a digital copy for public use.
The image was taken in the early 1980s when Colin worked as a teacher at Bridge of Don Academy. He led several current and former pupils, and staff members in an investigation into the location, physical condition and public knowledge of Aberdeen's historic boundary markers. March Stone 16 (plus cup stone)
3198 This stone is located in boggy ground adjacent to summer house of the large house called The Policies, that is located off Bailleswell Road, at the end of Dalmuinzie Road. It is marked "16 ABD".
In 1780 the marker was described as an earthfast saucer stone. As shown here the saucer stone is adjacent to the lettered stone.
A slide of this image was kindly lent to Aberdeen City Libraries by Colin Johnston so that we could create a digital copy for public use.
The image was taken in the early 1980s when Colin worked as a teacher at Bridge of Don Academy. He led several current and former pupils, and staff members in an investigation into the location, physical condition and public knowledge of Aberdeen's historic boundary markers. March Stone 18 (plus cup stone)
3200 This stone is located in a field 150 metres south-west of the entrance to Hilton Farm, west of Hillhead Road. The 1929 Blue Book describes the location as the north east head of the Den of Murtle. The stone is marked "18 ABD".
The marker was described in 1698 as a saucer stone next to a cairn on the edge of a road: by 1929 the road had disappeared but the cairn was still there. The saucer stone survives next to the lettered stone, which had been broken by 1810 and the current one probably dates to the 1821 riding of the marches.
The Blue Book includes a image of the lettered stone showing a "T" marked on its back.
A slide of this image was kindly lent to Aberdeen City Libraries by Colin Johnston so that we could create a digital copy for public use.
The image was taken in the early 1980s when Colin worked as a teacher at Bridge of Don Academy. He led several current and former pupils, and staff members in an investigation into the location, physical condition and public knowledge of Aberdeen's historic boundary markers. March Stone 23 (plus cup stone)
3205 This stone is located at the summit of Bean's Hill at a junction of fences. It is marked "23 ABD".
A saucer marked stone (described in 1698 and 1780) is adjacent to the lettered stone. This is the highest point on the line of marches.
The line of the marches heads strongly north west from here towards the farm of North Westfield.
A slide of this image was kindly lent to Aberdeen City Libraries by Colin Johnston so that we could create a digital copy for public use.
The image was taken in the early 1980s when Colin worked as a teacher at Bridge of Don Academy. He led several current and former pupils, and staff members in an investigation into the location, physical condition and public knowledge of Aberdeen's historic boundary markers. March Stone 25 (plus cup stone)
3207 This stone is located at the east side of a rock outcrop at Brunt Hill near the Silver Burn. The line of the marches has continued north west from number 24. This stone is best accessed from track at East Brotherfield Farm, located to the north east. The stone is marked "25 ABD".
In 1780 the marker was described as "a large stone or part of a Rock marked with a saucer . . ." The saucer stone is adjacent to lettered stone.
The Silver Burn has also been known as the Rotten Burn. The Blue Book states that 1678 the latter was described as the boundary of the marches. The shown marker stones a little distance from this due the unsuitably of the swampy ground there.
A slide of this image was kindly lent to Aberdeen City Libraries by Colin Johnston so that we could create a digital copy for public use.
The image was taken in the early 1980s when Colin worked as a teacher at Bridge of Don Academy. He led several current and former pupils, and staff members in an investigation into the location, physical condition and public knowledge of Aberdeen's historic boundary markers. March Stone 28 (plus Propertie Stone)
3210 This stone is located adjacent to Littlemill/Brodiach Burn, on rough ground, north west of Borrowstone Farm, off the Clinterty/Blackburn Road. It is marked "28 ABD".
The line of the marches has followed the Brodiach 2 miles north from number 27. Present next to marker number 28 is an older stone marked "P" for "Propertie".
The Blue Book states:
"Stone No. 28 looks like it was placed on the wrong side of the burn, but it appears that, at one time, the burn was diverted, and the stone lettered 'P' signifies that the Town claimed the nook when the course of the burn was altered."
The book also explains that Borrowstone was owned by the Weavers' Incorporation and it was at this stone that their "Doupin'" ceremonies took place and also includes a photograph of the two stones.
A slide of this image was kindly lent to Aberdeen City Libraries by Colin Johnston so that we could create a digital copy for public use.
The image was taken in the early 1980s when Colin worked as a teacher at Bridge of Don Academy. He led several current and former pupils, and staff members in an investigation into the location, physical condition and public knowledge of Aberdeen's historic boundary markers. March Stone 29 (plus cup stone)
3211 This stone is located near to Littlemill Burn in the corner of a field west of Wynford Farm, off the Clinterty/Blackburn Road. It is marked "29 ABD". The line of the marches has headed north, along the burn, from marker 28.
As shown in the image, there is a saucer stone adjacent to the lettered stone.
The Blue Book states that the name Wynford derives from wain or wagon ford.
A slide of this image was kindly lent to Aberdeen City Libraries by Colin Johnston so that we could create a digital copy for public use.
The image was taken in the early 1980s when Colin worked as a teacher at Bridge of Don Academy. He led several current and former pupils, and staff members in an investigation into the location, physical condition and public knowledge of Aberdeen's historic boundary markers. March Stone 31 (plus Doupin' Stone)
3213 This stone is located in the same field north of Wynford. It is marked "31 ABD". The line of the marches from number 30 has left the Littlemill Burn, for the Blind Burn, and headed north a short distance.
The descriptions in 1525 and 1698 there had not been a marker stone here at those times. In 1780 two large earthfast stones were noted, both saucer marked.
It was here that new burgesses underwent the initiation of "doupin'", or being dropped onto the stone. This took place during the Riding of the Marches. The Doupin' cup stone is next to the lettered stone.
This is the north west corner of the Freedom Lands. However, the boundary line does go further north that this point; north east to stone number 34 at Greenwelltree, later Craibstone Golf Course.
A slide of this image was kindly lent to Aberdeen City Libraries by Colin Johnston so that we could create a digital copy for public use.
The image was taken in the early 1980s when Colin worked as a teacher at Bridge of Don Academy. He led several current and former pupils, and staff members in an investigation into the location, physical condition and public knowledge of Aberdeen's historic boundary markers. March Stone 60 (plus original stone)
3256 This stone is located at the gate in the front garden of 74 Jute Street. It is marked "60 ABD".
No seventeenth or eighteenth-century descriptions are known.
A slide of this image was kindly lent to Aberdeen City Libraries by Colin Johnston so that we could create a digital copy for public use.
The image was taken in the early 1980s when Colin worked as a teacher at Bridge of Don Academy. He led several current and former pupils, and staff members in an investigation into the location, physical condition and public knowledge of Aberdeen's historic boundary markers. March Stone 14 (plus cup stone) (colour)
3289 Colour image of stone 14 opposite the entrance to Cults Primary School, off Earlswells Road. It is marked "14 ABD".
It was described in 1525 as a stone with "three hollis hewing in the same..." In 1698 a saucer stone was recorded, which may be the one sitting adjacent to the lettered nineteenth-century stone.
A slide of this image was kindly lent to Aberdeen City Libraries by Colin Johnston so that we could create a digital copy for public use.
The image was taken in the early 1980s when Colin worked as a teacher at Bridge of Don Academy. He led several current and former pupils, and staff members in an investigation into the location, physical condition and public knowledge of Aberdeen's historic boundary markers. |