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The Newton Stone is a pillar stone, found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The stone contains two inscriptions, one, written in Ogham, but the second script has never been positively identified and many different decipherments or theories have been proposed since the 1860s. The second script may have been added to the stone as recent as the late 18th or beginning of the 19th century. ==Discovery and relocation== The Newton Stone has been known since 1804 when the Earl of Aberdeen George Hamilton-Gordon discovered the stone by the opening up of a new road near Pitmachie Farm, Aberdeenshire, after local shephards told him of a "curious monument" that sat there.〔Macalister, R. A. S. (1935). "The Newton Stone". 9(36): 389-398.〕 The stone was later taken and planted in the garden of Newton House, in the Parish of Culsamond about a mile north of Pitmachie Farm by the antiquarian Alexander Gordon. Gordon was later indebted by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for writing a letter describing the original position of the Newton Stone. His letter reads: In 1883, James Carnegie clarified that the stone was "moved to a site () behind Newton House about 1837".〔J. C. (9th Earl of) Southesk. (1883). "The Newton Stone". ''Proc''. ''Soc''. ''Antiq''. ''Scot''. xvii: 21-45. ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newton Stone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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