There is a good wee museum in Abernethy, Perth and Kinross, open Wednesday to Sunday 2pm-5pm from early May to September well worth a visit if you happen to be in the village in the summer months.

The village has other reminders of the past as well as the Tower itself, the graveyard and the War Memorial.

Stone with Pictish inscription (hard by Round Tower):-

Almost next to the Pictish stone and set into the tower near its base is this manacle. Presumably it was a punishment site of some sort:-

Despite the absence of a “Commonwealth War Graves here” sign on the gateposts we found three war graves in Abernethy churchyard.

Private J Gray, RASC, 18/11/1917, aged 33:-

Private P Scott, Royal Scots Greys, 20/2/1919, aged 28:-

Private H Rutherford, Cameron Highlanders, 10/12/1918:-

In addition several headstones commemorated war dead.

Alexander Stephen, 16/8/1018, aged 48:-

William Edmiston, 23/5/1915, aged 19:-

Private John Greenhill, 28/10/1914, aged 20:-

John Saunders, died from wounds at Boulogne, 26/5/1915, aged 35:-

Sergt Alexander Mitchell, RAF, died in Cambridge Hospital, 13/10/1918, aged 31:-

Kenneth James, CMF, 22/3/1944. aged 26:-

Abernethy is a village in Perth and Kinross. It contains one of only two intact Pictish towers left in Scotland. (The other is in Brechin.)

Tower from street:-

A view from the tower. Graveyard just below:-

Tower from graveyard:-

War Memorial from Tower:-

War Memorial from ground level:-

Original inscription carved into plinth:-

War memorial names. Great War names above, 1939-45 below:-