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Burghmuir Drive, INVERURIE, AB51 4GY

Includes a PostOffice, Pharmacy and a small but well stocked Co-op store that sells fresh butteries early in the morning.

Near the Garioch Sports Centre. Part is floodlit for evening matches.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.