Brandsbutt

Nearest town:
Inverurie (2km SE)
OS reference:
NJ760223
OS sheet:
38
Latitude:
57° 17' 26.61 N
Longitude:
2° 23' 53.61 W
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Images

Image of Brandsbutt (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

The surviving but displaced circle stones.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (24.4.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 8, 2012
Image of Brandsbutt (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

General view. The two displaced circle stones are on the left, the position of the circle is marked out by a cobbled line in the grass. The corner of the broken Pictish stone is at the bottom right.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (24.4.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 8, 2012
Image of Brandsbutt (Stone Circle) by drewbhoy

Possible stones from the circle.

Image credit: drew/sweetcheat
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Apr 24, 2012
Image of Brandsbutt (Stone Circle) by Chris

The outline of the circle has been marked in the grass with cobbles.

Chris
Chris Oct 15, 2006
Image of Brandsbutt (Stone Circle) by Chris

The circle stones have outlasted their wall anyway.

Chris
Chris Oct 15, 2006
Image of Brandsbutt (Stone Circle) by Chris

The Brandsbutt stone itself. Broken up and used for walling material by some inbred yokel.

Chris
Chris Oct 15, 2006

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Brandsbutt

C
CARL Aug 13, 2014

Visited 27.7.14

Directions:
In the town of Inverurie. In the suburbs to the north west.
The Brandsbutt symbol stone is sign posted as it is a H.S. site.

There is an information board and the setting of the circle has been marked out on the grass. The site is well and truly knackered but, at least I guess, some of the stones remain.

The Pictish stone is also knackered but again, at least it is still with us.
Luckily the light was good and I was easily able to make out the carvings.

Worth a look if you happen to be visiting the pretty town of Inverurie.

Brandsbutt

Chris
Chris Oct 15, 2006
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Another sorry urbanised site. Destroyed in antiquity, the stones were used in a wall, and most have disappeared. The equally abused Brandsbutt Pictish stone was also broken up for walling material, before being Blue Petered back together and dumped here. Just to finish it off, they then built a housing estate around it.

Not a place to linger, I’m afraid.

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Link

Brandsbutt
Stone Circle
Chris
Chris Sep 27, 2006
RCAHMS

This site consists of the two remaining stones of a 5 stone circle, together with a relocated Pictish stone. Destroyed in antiquity, and further ‘enhanced’ by being surrounded by a housing state and partially restored, this site can be found by following the signs to the ‘Brandsbutt Stone’.

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