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Bydand Gardens, INVERURIE, AB51 4FL

A piece of public art entitled "Pieces of a Puzzle" by Jeremy Cunningham enlivens a token slice of green space in the 1990s suburban wasteland of Inverurie.

A 1995 artwork by Jeremy Cunningham. Made from interlocking granite blocks with a metal upright at the centre. The constellations of the Plough and Cassiopeia are inscribed on the base as pointers to the North Star.

The stone and its neighbours once formed part of a stone circle. The circumference of the circle was marked by a circle of cobbles laid in the grass, but the grass, having this unfortunate tendency to keep growing, has now all but hidden the cobbles. You can just about make out a groove in the grass from lower left to the centre of this shot. The information board is clearly visible, and the Brandsbutt Stone itself is in the semi-shade to the right of it. See https://canmore.org.uk/site/18894/brandsbutt-inverurie-symbol-stone for more information.

This stone has been restored to some extent after its removal from a dyke around the year 1900. It's a Pictish Symbol Stone. See http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/archaeology/sites/pictish/bransbutt.asp

The circle has been marked out on the open grass patch in a housing estate. The circle would have dated back to the third millennium BC, but all 12 (or possibly 13) stones have been removed and/or destroyed.

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.

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.

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.