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Bridge Of Ardonald, Victoria diamond jubilee fountain
Lion spout

Gothic style fountain with lion mask spout over a stone trough. It is inscribed centre front - 'Victoria diamond jubilee fountain 1897'. Nearby to the same loop of old military road are two old healing wells HACKLEBURNIE WELL at NJ 472 448 (The spring still flows from a pipe into the garden of a modern bungalow, though its water is also used by a hotel on the hillock above.) and BOGFORGUE WELL at NJ 467 449 (a healing well; on the bank of the Burn of Cairnie, beneath an electricity power line; not easy to get at.)

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Double Head sculpture Huntly
Huntly double head sculpture

A contemporary stone carving of a double head also making a feature of the subjects hands.

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Duke of Richmond statue Huntly
Duke of Richmond statue Huntly

A Victorian portrait statue, inscription reads: Erected as a memorial of Charles Gordon Lennox Fifth Duke of Richmond, by the tenantry of the Lordship of Huntly.

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Gordon Highlanders Memorial
Gordon Highlanders Memorial

The regimental crest of a Hart's head with ivy wreath on top of the motto 'BYDAND' mounted on a plinth of undressed pink granite.

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Huntly fountain
Mask detail on arch

A fountain in various granites that looks as though it was designed to show of stone masons virtuosity. It is adorned with gilded Biblical texts relating to water.

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Huntly war memorial
Huntly War Memorial

It is of a classical, elongated style in granite, octagon in plan with square piers and entablature panel screens between which are open at the top. It is surmounted by a four-sided tapering obelisk. There is a one-step base with a small flight of three steps leading up to it. It was unveiled 24 September 1922.

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Standing Stones of Strathbogie
the 'Stones of Strathbogie'

Two small standing stones that may once have formed part of a stone circle. One of them has been used as a Pictish symbol stone marked with the 'horseshoe' and 'double-disc' symbols, these are no longer legible.

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