Name: | Newton | CISP No: | NEWT |
Place: | Newton | Grid Ref: | NJ 6623 2972 (GB) |
Parish: | Culsamond | Stones: | 1 |
County: | Aberdeenshire , Scotland | Saint(s): | none |
Site Type: | landscape setting |
Forsyth/1996, 420, notes that there is some confusion over the earlier whereabouts of the stone at this site, but notes the earliest record of its location in 1804 by Aberdeen, who first saw the stone `in a fir plantation, a few paces from the high road, and near to the Pitmarchie Turnpike'.