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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Newton House Alternative Name: Newton Stone
Country: Scotland County: Aberdeenshire Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Nearest Town: Inverurie  Nearest Village: Insch
Map Ref: NJ6623929732  Landranger Map Number: 38
Latitude: 57.356814N  Longitude: 2.562771W
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Newton House submitted by Klingon : Ogham Stone and Pictish Symbol Stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Two sculptured stones, one an Ogham-inscribed stone, known as the Newton stone, the other a Class I symbol stone, as enclosed within an iron railing close to the east side of Newton House, Aberdeenshire.

The first stone, 6'8" high, originally stood in a plantation near Shevock toll-bar (NJ 6676 2883), on the slope of a hill above Shevock Burn, 3/4 mile S of Newton House. Graves were discovered nearby but their connection with the stone is not proven.

The Class I symbol stone, 6' 9" high, with double-disc, Z-rod, and serpent symbols, is said to have been placed on the march between Newton and Rothney, 1/2 mile W of the toll-gate of Shevock about 1 mile S of Newton House. (NJ 66 28.)

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Newton House submitted by golux : Close-up of the undeciphered writing on the Newton Stone. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Newton House submitted by golux : Newton Stone 2, showing the ogham writing up the side and the six lines of mysterious inscription. Inset is a rough drawing of the inscription which is in no known alphabet. It has been suggested to be Celtic lettering (similar to that seen in the Book of Deer) or even Brahmin script. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Newton House submitted by cosmic : Drawing from Waddell's book of the Newton Stone which he used as basis for Scots being descended from Phonecians (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Newton House submitted by durhamnature : Drawing from "Sculptured Stones of Scotland" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Newton House submitted by durhamnature : Drawing from "Sculptured Stones of Scotland" via archive.org

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Newton House submitted by golux : The Class I symbol stone showing a double disc (with a "bite" out of the left disc) above a snake-and-Z-rod. Original location is said to be on the march between Newton and Rothney, 1/2 mile west of the toll-gate of Shevock about 1 mile south of Newton House.

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Newton House submitted by durhamnature : Drawing of the "binoculars and snake" stone from "Ancient Pillars.." via archive.org

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Newton House submitted by durhamnature : Photograph from "Ancient Pillars.." via archive.org

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Re: Newton House by Andy B on Saturday, 16 February 2019
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Gabriel Moshenska writes: From 1917 until his death, aged eighty-five, in 1938 Laurence Austine Waddell wove an elaborate and painstakingly detailed narrative of old world prehistory that identified the Aryan race as the root of all progress, innovation and civilisation in the past five thousand and five hundred years. Waddell's hyperdiffusionist and virulently racist writings on archaeology and ancient history were widely read in Britain, influencing the works of Fascist intellectuals, such as the medievalist J. H. Harvey, and the modernist poet Ezra Pound (Casillo 1985; Macklin 2008). Today his works, particularly his book The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons (1924), circulate among far-right groups, and can be found on the internet.

Waddell's first book on this subject, The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons (1924) focuses on the translation of an inscription on the Newton Stone, a monument at Newton House near Aberdeen. The stone is now thought to be early Medieval in date, judging from the Ogham inscription running up one side. There is also a second set of Ogham inscriptions, together with another peculiar text that is thought to be an early nineteenth century hoax (Macalister 1935). It is this latter nonsensical text that Waddell claimed to have deciphered (a claim made, with similar lack of veracity, by numerous scholars over the previous century). Waddell's translation attempt was inspired by the prominence of a swastika in the text, a symbol he associated with Aryan sun-worship. He claims that it reads:

This Sun-Cross (Swastika) was raised to Bil (or Bel, the God of Sun-Fire) by the Kassi (or Cassi-bel[an]) of Kast of the Siluyr (sub-clan) of the "Khilani" (or Hittite-palace-dwellers), the Phoenician (named) Ikar of Cicilia, the Prwt (or Prāt, that is 'Barat' or 'Brihat' or Brit-on) (Waddell 1924: 32).

While his writings may have been excluded from mainstream scholarship, it would be incorrect to dismiss Waddell as a lone crank: his work was well received by the public, and collected a number of favourable press reviews. In a period when Elliot Smith's hyperdiffusionist writings enjoyed widespread support, while race science and eugenics were considered respectable subjects of study, Waddell's works, while unquestionably esoteric, were not so far from the academic mainstream as we might now suppose. For this reason, as well as for his enduring influence, Waddell's writings deserve the attention of intellectual historians no less than the incredulity of archaeologists and ancient historians.

Read More: 'At Variance With Both General and Expert Opinion': The Later Works of Lieutenant-Colonel Professor Laurence Austine Waddell
https://www.archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.5334/bha.20106/

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2010, 20(1), pp.49–52. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/bha.20106
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Re: Newton House by Andy B on Saturday, 16 February 2019
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Deciphering The Newton Stone’s Mysterious “Unknown Script”
Most specialists agree that the long Ogham inscription is ancient. For example, Scottish historian William Forbes Skene dated the unknown inscription to the 9th century. But several scholars also claim that the short row was added to the stone in the late 18th or early 19th century, suggesting the mysterious "unknown script" is a modern hoax or a badly executed forgery.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/newton-stone-0010576

The Newton Pictish Stone of Aberdeenshire - Michel Gérald Boutet
https://www.academia.edu/17483008/The_Newton_Pictish_Stone_of_Aberdeenshire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_Stone
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Re: Newton House by Andy B on Friday, 14 July 2017
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Enorm: Newton House, Aberdeenshire NJ62NE 12 (stone 2); Class 1; Ogham on curved surface starting near top of stone, transliterated as “IDDARRNNN VORENNI KOI-OSR-”.

The Ogham inscription is from the top down (not usual convention) with the last five characters in the upward loop (they could be ILSRZ not -OSR- as stated in source text book. The additional carving near the top is considered to be “cursive or miniscule” script potentially from the 3rd to 7th century, transliterated as “ETTE EVAGAINNIAS CIGONOVOCANI URAELISI MAQQI NOVIOGRUTA”. Several theories have been put forward about this carving ranging from a choice of ancient scripts, to “forgery” and added in the 19th century. The characters, in my opinion, appear to be a combination of the two forms of Roman (Latin) cursive i.e. antigua and nueva.
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Chapter in "The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons" by Andy B on Monday, 31 January 2011
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ESgt writes: link to on-line book containing attempts at translation of both the cursive and the Ogham scripts.
http://www.archive.org/stream/ThePhoenicianOriginOfBritonsScotsAnglo-saxons/POEN#page/n49/mode/2up
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Re: Newton House by golux on Monday, 02 August 2010
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