March Stone

March stones are old boundary stones - this one dates from the late 18th C and sits beside a house on one of our busy city centre roads.

There are two sets of boundary stones: the inner and the outer. The inner march stones mark the boundary of the crofts that ringed the medieval Royal Burgh of Aberdeen. The outer march stones define a much larger area known as the Freedom Lands. These lands went on to become the right and responsibility of the medieval and later Royal Burgh of Aberdeen. The name ‘march stones’ derives from the 16th century meaning of march as a boundary.

This is an outer march stone - inner stones have a prefix CR.
Our council has a detailed list of where all the stones are and a walking guide - though many are are hard to find and some in back gardens !