1
Water Reservoir off Burghmuir Drive
The enhanced security of the place (metal fence doubling the height of the old stone wall plus five strands of barbed wire atop) ensured my curiosity.
It appears that the housing estates were built much later and have been adapted to fit in around the fenced off area.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 17 Aug 2012
0.07 miles
2
Group of shops on Burghmuir Drive
Includes a PostOffice, Pharmacy and a small but well stocked Co-op store that sells fresh butteries early in the morning.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 17 Aug 2012
0.08 miles
3
Pieces of a Puzzle
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.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 11 Aug 2011
0.10 miles
4
Site of the Brandsbutt Stone Circle
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.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 11 Aug 2011
0.11 miles
5
Brandsbutt Stone Circle
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.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 25 Feb 2016
0.12 miles
6
Douping Stone
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.
Image: © Anne Burgess
Taken: 25 Feb 2016
0.12 miles
7
Suburban sculpture
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.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 30 Sep 2017
0.12 miles
8
The Brandsbutt Pictish Stone
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.
Image: © Bob Embleton
Taken: 11 Aug 2011
0.12 miles
9
Brandsbutt Stone
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
Image: © stephen samson
Taken: 20 Oct 2006
0.12 miles
10
Brandsbutt Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Photograph taken when the stood in a field. https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=7105
Image: © Sandy Gerrard
Taken: Unknown
0.12 miles