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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Tomb of George Baird of Auchmeddan, Old Aberdour
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