Le cercle de pierre de Tomnaverie est un cromlech daté de l'Âge du bronze, comportant une pierre couchée massive. Il est situé près du village de Tarland, dans l'Aberdeenshire, en Écosse.
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The Tomnaverie stone circle is a recumbent stone circle set on the top of a small hill in lowland northeast Scotland. Construction started around 2500 BC, in the Bronze Age, to produce a monument of thirteen granite stones including a massive 6.5-ton recumbent stone lying on its side along the southwest of the circle's perimeter. Within the 17-metre circle are kerb stones encircling a low 15-metre ring cairn but the cairn itself no longer exists.
By 1930 Tomnaverie had fallen into a very dilapidated state, in good measure because it had been encroached on by a neighbouring quarry. Only four stones were still standing and many of the others were missing. In that year the monument was put into state guardianship but this merely stopped the destruction and made for no improvements. In 1999 an archaeological excavation commenced investigating how the circle had been constructed. Also, so far as possible, the monument would be returned closer to its original condition. This was very successful and the stone circle is now only missing two standing stones.
The excavation showed the cairn seems to have been constructed so as to prepare the way for the circle to be added in a pre-arranged alignment – this has since been demonstrated for other recumbent circles. It had previously been expected the cairn would have been built after the circle. This new discovery has made it doubtful that astronomical observations could have been made from within the circle or that the circle had been intended to have any precise orientation.
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Tarland is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland 5 miles northwest of Aboyne, and 30 miles west of Aberdeen.
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Culsh Earth House is an Iron Age souterrain in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is named after Culsh farmsteading nearby, which is still in use to the present day. The site is near the village of Tarland.
Culsh Earth House has a Statement of Significance from Historic Environment Scotland.
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Coull Castle was a 13th-century castle to the south of Coull, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Blelack is a place in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the location of Blelack House, a Scottish mansion house with origins in the seventeenth century.
Dool Dool to Blelack, and Dool to Blelack's Heir, for Driving use fae the Seely Howe to the Cauld Hill O’ Fare
So goes the apparent curse on the Laird of Blelack House for instigating an exorcism on the "Fairies" resident in the Seely Howe, 'howe' being a hollow or glen. The Cauld Hill O’ Fare is near Banchory, some miles further down the Dee Valley. Dool is the Doric dialect term roughly equivalent to 'Doom'. For a couple of centuries, the lairds did not seem to enjoy any particular good fortune, seemingly ending up always on the losing side.
Blelack House is situated 30 miles west of Aberdeen, near the village of Logie Coldstone, 3 miles north of the River Dee in the Cromar, a basin of agricultural land carved out of the Grampian foothills. Blelack is an anglicisation of the Gaelic Baile ailich meaning "village of the stone house". The prefix "Ble..." is found in the Outer Hebrides with regard to translations of Gaelic place names beginning Baile, in Ireland this would be "Bally..." .
The Royal Deeside area was historically within the Earldom of Mar, and the Blelack estate belonged to a branch of the powerful Clan Gordon. In 1620 an "Alexander Gordoune" of Blelack is referred to in "The Records of Aboyne", and the location is shown on a map of 1654. It is difficult to tell if the presence of a stone house here is earlier. Typical of such mansion houses, there is a nearby farm and a mill, both of similar age, and built of the distinctive local pink granite.
There are, confusingly, two dates engraved onto the façade of the building, 1881 and 1892. There is some evidence that the current Blelack House is older, and these are renovation dates. Blelack House was burnt down in retribution after the Jacobite rising of 1745. The young laird, Charles Gordon, fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie, and was closely associated with several of the rebellion's leaders. The new mansion house was built on the present site in 1753. The building suffered an accidental fire later in 1868 and was rebuilt and remodelled the following year. We can only speculate on the extent of the changes to the house over the centuries; the current building seems to predate the Mock Baronial style of the later nineteenth century. During the Victorian era, Blelack ceased to be the laird's seat and was used as a shooting lodge. In World War II pupils from Albyn School for girls in Aberdeen were evacuated to the house. The building was split up into separate flats in 1976.