Huntly

Also known as:
Standing Stones Of Strathbogie
Nearest town:
Huntly (1km S)
OS reference:
NJ531398
OS sheet:
29
Latitude:
57° 26' 46.13 N
Longitude:
2° 46' 53.42 W
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Images

Image of Huntly (Standing Stones) by thesweetcheat

You can’t go far wrong in a town with standing stones at its centre.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (17.3.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 27, 2011
Image of Huntly (Standing Stones) by Moth

Low stones to right of statue in main street parking area.... Not sure what they are, but Julian put ‘em in TMA!

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Aug 27, 2003

Articles

Huntly

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jun 11, 2009

The easiest fieldnotes ever. Underneath the memorial, in Huntly Square, are last two stones of a stone circle. Enter Huntly from the roundabout ,on the A97, George V avenue which leads to Gordon Street and the square. The Picts took advantage but their markings have been beaten by natural causes.

In the centre of Huntly.

Folklore

Huntly
Standing Stones
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Dec 18, 2009

“The Standing Stones of Strathbogie are two low stones at the rear of the Duke Of Richmond in The Square, are all that remain of a six-stone circle with a diameter of around 50 feet. The circle was clearly once a well-known landmark, as a court was held here in 1557 and in 1594 it was the rendezvous for the Earls of Argyll, Huntly and Errol before the Battle of Glenlivet. One stone bore a Pictish ‘horseshoe’ but this has now faded away.

The fountain, decorated with owls, is supposedly above a secret tunnel that leads to the castle; this is possibly a memory of the old well that once stood nearby.”

Mysterious Aberdeenshire – Geoff Holder

(BigSweetie of TMA gets mentioned in this book)

Miscellaneous

Huntly
Standing Stones
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Apr 8, 2008

We hear from Huntly, that on the morning of the 2d of February current, being the Marquis of Huntly’s birth-day, the inhabitants [..] and tenants in that neighbourhood, to the number of two thousand and upwards [assembled at Huntly Lodge] where the healths of the day was liberally drank, with many cheers. His Lordship soon after set off to Gordon Castle, when the people marched back to Huntly, and erected large bonfires on the streets, which continued burning throughout the day. [..and] continued blazing for the night, and the old Standing Stones of Huntly were twenty times washed over with good Highland whiskey.

From the pages of the Caledonian Mercury, Sat. Feb 11th, 1804.

Miscellaneous

Huntly
Standing Stones
Rhiannon
Rhiannon May 28, 2004

CANMORE says that the two standing stones set into the Square in Huntly are the remains of the “Standing Stanes of Strathbogie”, which were 6 stones in a 50ft diameter (probably recumbent) circle.

Grinsell (in ‘Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in Britain) mentions a Court being held at the stones (the circle?) in 1557.

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Chris
Chris
Oct 2006

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