Monument record MAB21801 - BISHOP'S LANDS, TYREBAGGER HILL

Large granite boulder, previously identified as a recumbent stone with cup-marks, forming a boundary marker.

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.

The boulder is 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.

CRUICKSHANK, J, 1926, NEWHILLS CROSS, ABERDEENSHIRE. IN: PSAS 60 (1925-6) 269-73, 269-273 (Bibliographic reference). SAB249.

CRUICKSHANK, J, 1934, NEWHILLS: THE ANNALS OF THE PARISH, 44 (Bibliographic reference). SAB250.

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Mar 23 2026 11:37AM