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An inspired contemporary gravestone, by Helen Denerley, with a brass and copper relief appliqué in the form of the tree of life in a sinuous style. A mouse and a lizard are nestled among the tree's roots.

The kirk yard contains a recumbent stone circle; This is a landscaped and slightly re-arranged recumbent stone circle, 17.3m in diameter; it consists of the recumbent, two flankers and five others. The two flankers, each c2.5m high (matched and shaped into two enormous canine teeth), flank a massive recumbent 4.5 m long which weighs some 20 tons it has some markings on the top. The present church was built in 1797 when the old church near Midmar was pulled down . The old graveyard continued in use until 1914 when the new one was laid out around the stone circle. It is likely that the ring cairn was tidied away, probably when the graveyard was laid out around the circle in 1914. Very well maintained
The old kirk yard is nearby at NJ 702 059 called the old church of St Nidan or St Nidian's, it has a good collection of gravestones from the 16thC onwards, including that of George Bell, master mason of Midmar & Craigievar castles.

The monument is very well preserved recumbent stone circle, 25m - 26.7 in diameter, lying in an area bounded by a 19th-century plantation wall. The circle comprises 11 standing stones and the recumbent. The recumbent and one of the uprights bear cupmarks. Within the circle is a raised platform measuring some 7m across, probably the remains of a ring cairn. The circle is on a hilltop surrounded by trees above Sunhoney farm.
The unusualy large, 5.3 m long grey granite recumbent stone has fallen inwards. On its (currently) upper surface, originally the stone's outer face are over thirty cup marks (some sources give 7 as now visible) . Its colour contrasts stongly with the red rock (granite and gneiss) of the other stones in the circle. The tall stones flanking the recumbent stone are about six and a half and seven and a half feet tall.