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Morningside Crescent, INVERURIE, AB51 4FA

Gordon Terrace meets Brankie Road in the endless Inverurie suburbs.

Some of the Pictish stones that were recovered from a stone dyke in 1900. The circle was destroyed many years before. They now lie surrounded by a new housing scheme.

A stone of many pieces this Pictish stone was recovered from farmland as pieces and carefully reassembled.

The Brandsbutt stone bears Pictish carvings and an Ogham inscription. It was found broken into pieces in a field was but has been reassembled. See https://canmore.org.uk/site/18894/brandsbutt-inverurie-symbol-stone for more information.

The stone is a Class 1 stone, which means that it has incised symbols but no cross or relief carving. The symbols are a serpent and Z-rod, and above it a crescent and V-rod. On the left-hand edge of the stone there is an Ogham inscription. See https://canmore.org.uk/site/18894/brandsbutt-inverurie-symbol-stone for more information.

This fine symbol stone was blown up in the 19th Century and the fragments used to construct a dyke but most of it was later reassembled with cement infills. Until recently it was in open farmland, but is now surrounded by suburban housing. It is decorated with Pictish crescent and V-rod and a serpent and Z-rod symbols as well as Ogam characters. Canmore reference 18894: https://canmore.org.uk/site/18894/brandsbutt-inverurie-symbol-stone . For more, see Allen and Anderson, Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, vol. 3, p. 506, available as a download from archive.org

Photograph taken when the stood in a field. https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=7105

This is one of the stones that made up the stone circle beside the Brandsbutt Stone. It and its fellow had been built into a field wall, but when the area was redeveloped as housing they were re-erected beide the Brandsbutt Stone. It is named on the 1:25,000 map as 'Douping Stone' but I have not found any explanation for this. https://canmore.org.uk/site/18882/brandsbutt for more information.

These two stones, plus the symbol stone a few metres away in the next square, are the remains of a stone circle. According to the 1:25,000 map the nearer one is called the Douping Stone, but I have not found any explanation of this. See https://canmore.org.uk/site/18882/brandsbutt for more information.

Broken and re-assembled. It bears several standard symbols found on pictish stones including: a V rod, a Z rod a crescent and a serpent. In addition there is an ogham inscription: IRATADDOARENS thought to mean Eddarrnon, possibly St. Ethernanus.