By the entrance to Brodie Castle in Moray there is a Pictish Stone:-

Reverse:-

Information Board:-

If you carry on up the main road from the car park at Clava Cairns you reach a further much smaller cairn site accessed by a footpath. This is Milton of Clava Cairn.

Looking back to main site from road:-

Milton of Clava Cairn (and standing stone) from path:-

Milton of Clava Cairn:-

See my previous post on Clava Cairns here.

Kerb Cairn:-

One of the cairns:-

A more mounded cairn:-

A tomb entrance:-

The ring cairn:-

Cairns towards back of site:-

Clava Cairns is a site near Inverness containing the quite well preserved remains of prehistoric structures used for burials. It’s also very close to the Culloden battle site.

General view from entrance:-

Looking back from inside site:-

Cairn (with entrance hidden by standing stone above):-

Interior of cairn:-

Cup and ring marks:-

As well as the model in the castle’s grounds there is this one in metal with labels of the castle’s interior:-

Its reverse:-

The Castle keep from below:-

Tower from inside:-

Walls and windows:-

Castle from car park:-

Main building:-

Walls to left of above:-

Walls to right:-

Model in grounds:-

Furness Abbey is a former monastery located in the north of Barrow-in-Furness. It was once the second wealthiest Cistercian monastery in England and it held large tracts of land in Cumbria and Lancashire. It was of course disestablished in the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Nowadays it’s a ruin – or several ruins but it’s certainly worth going to see if you’re near Barrow.

Part of what remians is reinforced by steel supports:-

A stream runs under this bit:-

On the way down from Craigellachie we stopped off at Dufftown, mainly to have a look at Balvennie Castle, once the seat of the Earls of Buchan. We couldn’t go into the interior  since the castle was closed on the day.

Balvennie Castle information board:-

Balvennie Castle:-

Entrance:-

Gate:-

Interior through gate:-

From northwest:-

Another Pictish symbol stone, this one by the side of a minor road just northwest of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire:-

Information board:-

This stone is now in the middle of a housing estate in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. It was once part of a stone circle.

Stone’s markings:-

Information Board :-