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<< Our Photo Pages >> St Medden's Kirkyard - Class I Pictish Symbol Stone in Scotland in Aberdeenshire

Submitted by bardofthebroch on Friday, 26 January 2007  Page Views: 9958

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: St Medden's Kirkyard
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.159 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Aberdeenshire Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone

Map Ref: NJ873156
Latitude: 57.230949N  Longitude: 2.211999W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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St Medden's Kirkyard
St Medden's Kirkyard submitted by bardofthebroch : Flat stone with pictish symbols. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Pictish Symbol Stone in Aberdeenshire
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St Medden's Kirkyard
St Medden's Kirkyard submitted by bardofthebroch : Interesting and relatively unknown ancient site of St Medden's Medieavel kirk. Within the grounds there is an upright grave-stone with a dagger and a malteses cross - Burial place of a knight templar? Also there is a large symbol stone lying flat on the ground. possibly another grave. The condition of this graveyard is extremely poor with many rabbit holes and nettles not a good advert for th... (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

St Medden's Kirkyard
St Medden's Kirkyard submitted by bardofthebroch : 15th century Sacramental house St Medden's Kirk Aberdeenshire. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Medden's Kirkyard
St Medden's Kirkyard submitted by bardofthebroch : St Medden's ancient kirk. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Medden's Kirkyard
St Medden's Kirkyard submitted by bardofthebroch : Ancient gravestone located in St Medden's Kirk Aberdeenshire - John Seton of Disblair died 1563 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NJ8715 : Medieval Gravestone, St Meddan's Church by David Robinson
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NJ8715 : Site of St Meddan's Church, Fintray by Bill Harrison
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NJ8715 : Graves, St Meddan's kirkyard by Bill Harrison
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Re: St Medden's Kirkyard by Anonymous on Wednesday, 26 September 2007
hi i wonder if u can tell me a bit more about the st medden as this is my surname and i am very intersted in hearing a bit more information on this please thx
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