Pattenbringan / Pittenbrinzean

Nearest town:
Cullen (3km NNW)
OS reference:
NJ5143964393
OS sheet:
29
Latitude:
57° 40' 1.35 N
Longitude:
2° 48' 50.75 W
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Image of Pattenbringan / Pittenbrinzean (Standing Stones) by stolinskie

Looks like a piece of granite used in construction to me – 2025

Image credit: Stolinskie
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Image of Pattenbringan / Pittenbrinzean (Standing Stones) by stolinskie

Taken from REPORT ON STONE CIRCLES SURVEYED IN THE NORTH-EAST OF SCOTLAND, CHIEFLY IN BANFFSHIRE, WITH MEASURED PLANS AND
DRAWINGS; OBTAINED UNDER THE GUNNING FELLOWSHIP.
BY FRED. R. COLES, ASSISTANT KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM.

Image credit: Frederick Coles
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Pattenbringan / Pittenbrinzean

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stolinskie Jun 1, 2026

There are two big stones here and lots of smaller ones under the grass. The big two are mysterious. They hang out in a bit of scrub at the top of an egg-shaped (ie ancient) field, before Clune Woods starts. Locally they are known as Pattenbringan. Trove records them as Pittenbrinzean. There used to be a manor house adjacent, lived in by an Ogilvy and then a Gordon, but no trace of it remains. Did the two stones used to be part of a stone circle? Possibly. The location feels right for it.

To get there, you can walk up from Lintmill through the trees beside the road until you get to a gate. There’s also just about enough room at the side of the gate to park there. There’s a track which heads up the hill and when it opens up into an area there’s a track down again, and then a scramble over to the scrubland. You can also walk up the side of the barley field but there’s quite a lot of intruding gorse.

Drew – interested to see what you make of these two stones. Coles thought they were part of something, Blood did not.

Folklore

Pattenbringan / Pittenbrinzean
Standing Stones
stolinskie
stolinskie Jun 1, 2026

‘Banffshire Advertiser’ 3 November 1887: “No one, now-a-days, believes these circles were the work of the Druids, but burial circles, which formerly passed under this name, may be traced at Greencairn in the parish of Bellie, at Pattenbringan and Corriedoun in Rathven (the latter now destroyed), at Ley in Fordyce, and at Bankhead in Boyndie”.

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