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This is the website for the village of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire in the North East of Scotland |
(There's also a Rhynie in Easter Ross, near Invergordon)
(For Rhynie in Australia, click here)
Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, on a bad day
Rhynie lies between Ord Hill and the Water of Bogie, 14 miles northwest of Alford.
A former market centre, the village was also known as Muir of Rhynie.
Just outside the old kirkyard of Rhynie there are three Pictish symbol stones dating from the 6th or 7th Century AD. Four more Pictish stones stand in the village square but the inscriptions are almost completely worn away. At the entrance to the school there is a cast of the Rhynie Man, taken from a stone now located at Woodhill House, Aberdeen.
A mile to the north-west, on the Tap o' Noth (1849 feet) there is a spectacular hillfort occupied on at least two occasions between the 1st millennium BC and the early 1st millennium AD.
A former market centre, the village was also known as Muir of Rhynie.
Just outside the old kirkyard of Rhynie there are three Pictish symbol stones dating from the 6th or 7th Century AD. Four more Pictish stones stand in the village square but the inscriptions are almost completely worn away. At the entrance to the school there is a cast of the Rhynie Man, taken from a stone now located at Woodhill House, Aberdeen.
A mile to the north-west, on the Tap o' Noth (1849 feet) there is a spectacular hillfort occupied on at least two occasions between the 1st millennium BC and the early 1st millennium AD.
