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There’s not much left of Kirkton of Bourtie, but what’s there is full of beauty #StandingStoneSunday

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Centre picture is a large, cracked recumbent stone with a tall standing stone upright to the right.
August 30, 2026 at 6:59 AM
petecrane.bsky.social
Kirkton Of Bourtie …. Dramatic, ancient Aberdeenshire granite … ”perhaps the largest recumbent stone known”…. #StandingStoneSunday. Many more pics on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...
Centre is the large recumbent stone with the one remaining, upright flanker to the right.
November 17, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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Kirkton of Bourtie, Aberdeenshire
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May 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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At over 5 metres Kirkton of Bourtie in Aberdeenshire is thought to be the longest of recumbent stones #StandingStoneSunday

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The long recumbent stone in a crop field with a tall flanker on the right. To the left are two smaller standing stones that formed part of the original circle.
May 31, 2026 at 6:35 AM
meldrumheritage.bsky.social
Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage is back!

New and revamped website launching soon, archive work under way, and new stories from our photo collection coming to light.

More very soon - looking forward to sharing what’s next!

#Heritage #Oldmeldrum #ScottishHistory #Bourtie
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October 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
tourscotland.bsky.social
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Bourtie Kirk in Aberdeenshire. Bourtie Kirk has a tradition of over 800 years of Christian worship tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2014/11/old-...
Old Photograph Bourtie Kirk Scotland
Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
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April 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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#DailyMegalith #StandingStoneSunday

Kirkton of Bourtie recumbent stone circle nr #Inverurie #Aberdeenshire #Scotland (2021)

It's badly damaged but has the longest known recumbent stone at c. 5.2m. Here Oliver is replacing the missing western flanker.

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A grey day. Ollie, in a dark hat and jacket and with his back to the camera, stretches both hands above his head in an attempt to match the 3m tall eastern flanking stone. The recumbent beside him is enormous. A lot of scruffy grass grows over an awkward pile of probable field-clearance.
December 29, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Today, Hill of Barra, Bourtie💙 #walking #hiking #winterwalking #hillofbarra #bourtie #oldmeldrum #bennachie #mithertap #cloudinversion
Four photo landscape collage all showing a cloud/temperature inversion with white cloud lying below the dark peaks of the Bennachie range in the distance, across fields. A winters day, cool and “faded” colours. Sky blue/yellow streaks. Top left: grey/green rocky outcrop in foreground, across green fields and conifers. Top right: looking across dark brown, recently ploughed fields. Bottom left: as top right with some pale yellow grass in foreground. Bottom right: an avenue of bare, broadleaf trees, green and pale yellow fields to west of the Bennachie range.
December 27, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Bourtie Kirk in Aberdeenshire. The church has a tradition of over 800 years of #Christian worship. and the present Kirk was rebuilt in 1806 tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2014/11/old-...
Old Photograph Bourtie Kirk Scotland
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October 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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We recently enjoyed re-visiting our #KirktonofBourtie - #HillofBarra walk and have updated the guidance … 😀

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#Walking #Hiking #Bourtie #Barra #Garioch #Inverurie #Oldmeldrum #Aberdeenshire #Scotland
(044) Kirkton of Bourtie-Hill of Barra Return (Aberdeenshire)
The focal point of this easy walk in fertile Garioch farming country is the exhilarating view from the summit of Barra Hill, redolent with the memories of historical drama over the ages. There is a…
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December 30, 2024 at 1:44 PM
meldrumheritage.bsky.social
We’re pleased to publish the 1st in our new online heritage series. This article explores Lt-Col Alexander Seton of Mounie and the 1852 sinking of HMS Birkenhead - origin of “Women and Children First”. Written by MBHS committee member Deborah A. O’Neil OBE, FRSE
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Alexander Seton - Women and Children First - Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage Society
To take your chance in the thick of a rush, with firing all about, Is nothing so bad when you've cover to 'and, an' leave an' likin' to shout; But to stand an' be still to the Birken'ead drill is a da...
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February 20, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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#Aberdeen A skewputt for James Dyce (of Badentoy), wigmaker, in the relict* gable of 59-60 Castle Street. In 1770 he wed Jean, daughter of Baillie William Fordyce of Achorthies of kidnapping infamy. He died Christmas Eve 1791, and is interred with his mother and brothers in St Nicholas kirkyard.
Cyma recta skewputt inscribed: "J766 / ID" for James Dyce Inscription on upper left half of a chest tomb slab. The entire left half reads: "[...] Deposited / The Remains of / [CH]RISTIAN CHASSER. / Spouse to JAMES DYCE / Late Farmer in the Parish of Bourtie / Who died the 10th April 1765 / Aged 63 Years / ALSO HER SONS / ALEXANDER DYCE / Merchant in Aberdeen, Who died / April 25th 1790, aged 52 Years / JAMES DYCE, Who died December 24th 1791, aged 57 Years / AND / ROBERT DYCE of Cuttlehill / Merchant in Aberdeen Who departed / this Life Novr 20th 1796, aged 6[.] / With him died the affectionate / Husband, indulgent Parent / And Poor Man’s Friend / ALSO / MAY DYCE, spouse to / the said ROBERT DYCE / Who departed this Life 26th February 1803, aged 70 Years / ALSO / WILLIAM DYCE of Cuttlehill / Physician in Aberdeen & / Son of the Above / ROBERT & MAY DYCE / Who died 10th March 1835 / Aged 65 Years. / ALSO THEIR DAUGHTERS / MAY DYCE / Who died Decr 20th 1850 / Aged 87 Years. / MARY DYCE / Spouse to JAMES GORDON / Merchant in Aberdeen, / Who died 11th February 1855 / Aged 89 Years." (2017) No. 55-57 Castle Street pending Victoria Court (formerly Allardyce's Court), No. 54; the relict gable of No. 59-60 - which pended Commercial Court, No. 58 - is at the rhs. Sometime after the house's demolition (unknown date), the gable was built out to make it less unsightly, at which time the skewputt may have come down and been reerected.
August 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
millofforesterhill.bsky.social
Our Meldrum & Bourtie Heritage Society photo displat today at #OldmeldrumSports. Noisy, set up next to the wrestling show!
June 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Kirkton of Bourtie Recumbent Stone Circle | The University of Aberdeen
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May 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM