What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Aboyne as Carved Stone Ball (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Aboyne is associated with Saint Aebbe, a 7th-century Christian abbess and cousin of Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, who founded a monastery in the area. The site may have been a place of early Christian worship and pilgrimage, though specific cures or rituals linked to the holy well are not well documented.
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Places near here
Aboyne, the Glebe HouseManse (period Unassigned) · 113 yd
Aboyne, Bridgeview Road, Aboyne BridgeRoad Bridge (20th Century) (1937) · 409 yd
Aboyne War MemorialMemorial · 615 yd
Aboyne, New CemeteryCemetery (20th Century) · 893 yd
Aboyne, Ballater Road, War Memorial BuildingsHall (20th Century), War Memorial(s) (20th Century) · 1094 yd
Image Wood Stone CircleArchaeological place · 1214 yd
Image WoodFour Poster Stone Circle (bronze Age)(possible) · 1215 yd
Knappy ParkForest · 1407 yd
AboyneNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 1571 yd
Court HillMountain / peak · 1.3 mi
Craig FerrarMountain / peak · 1.9 mi
Mains of BalfourHall House (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval)(possible), Well (period Unassigned) · 2.2 mi