Location
20 meters up the hill path at New Street - Victoria Street junction. They form part of a garden wall on the left as you go up the path.
Stonehaven, Kincardine
OS Map Reference
NO 874 855
Description
Near to plague burial-ground; plague or victims were interred not here but in a nearby hollow to the south east of Victoria Street, at a site known as The Maltman's How. The site is now occupied by modern buildings and gardens. Two gravestones were found about 1842 (which had lain on a what at that time was a piece of waste ground, they were then erected against a bank on the left of the path opposite the Bog Well ) and are now set into the E wall of a public footpath at NO 8741 8552. Stone to N dated 1608 with death's head and shield incorporating 'MT' monogram, reading 'Heir lyes ane honest man, Magnvs Tailiovr, seyman, qvha depairtit in November, (in the time of) pest 1608'. Stone to S dated 1648 and reading 'Heir lyes ane Honest mans bairns Alexander and William Brokie, sones lawful to Alexander Brokie, who departet the 12 of Jwnie, of the age of tvalf and nyn yeirs old, in ano 1648'.
Era
1600s
Information Source
Aberdeenshire Sites and Monuments Record and Listed Buildings Record
Categories
Iconography
- memento mori
Photographer
- Martin Sim
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