17th century grave slab St Drostans kirk Aberdour
A 17th century grave slab with finely carved lettering and memento mori symbols in a primitive style.
18th cent tomb slab St Drostans Aberdour
A stone slab carved with memento mori in a more primitive style than the nearby Clyne grave. The inscription is no longer legible.
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Aberdour cave graffiti
An assemblage of graffiti mostly consisting of simply painted names and dates but including the illustrated iconographic piece, showing a hound's head from an unusual straight on perspective.
Aberdour Dovecot
Dovecot; small square ashlar with some pinnings; stone nesting boxes; has squat octagonal gablet pinnacles; two rat ledges; possibly 16th/17thC origin; restored 1981.
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Clyne grave 18th century grave slab St Drostans kirk Aberdour
A nicely carved 18th century grave slab with classic memento mori symbols in a slightly more sophisticated style than some examples.
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Egypt Farm Sign
This popular cut out sign of a camel has been through more than one incarnation while keeping to essentially the same design
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New Aberdour Millennium Memorial
A minimalist monument consisting of a menhir of undressed granite, inscribed with the numerals 2000, recalling the megaliths of prehistory.
New Aberdour War Memorial
Typical village war memorial in the form of a Celtic cross, in a style that through the 19th cent Celtic revival ultimately derives from the circa 9th cent. crosses of Iona. These in turn draw on manuscript art and Pictish sculpture and metalwork.
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Saint Drostans Well
A Victorian pink granite basin and cover carved with a scallop shell motif, for a spring traditionally associated with the dark age St Drostan who is supposed to have landed on this beach before evangelising the Buchan area in Pictish times.
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Tomb of George Baird of Auchmeddan, Old Aberdour
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