Location
Next to the Pathway near the Bennachie Centre, near Monymusk
Monymusk, Inverurie
OS Map Reference
NJ 696 217
Description
Carved words "THE TRAMPLING TO INVERURIE" and "THE TRUNDLING TO INSCH" on each side of a large granite stone next to the path just above the Bennachie Centre. In addition there is a hole drilled through the stone providing a sight line along the path.
Related Information
One of several contemporary sculptures on the slopes of Bennachie.
Bennachie is a small mountain, its most prominent peak "the Mither Tap" has an Iron Age fort on its summit. It has been suggested as a possible location of the battle of Mons Graupius (a battle between the Romans and the Caledonians, described by Tacitus) without there being any tangible evidence for this although archaeological finds do show it to have been an important site at least from the neolithic period onward.
Era
2000s
Related Artefacts
- Bennachie Story Wall Hanging
- Bennachie typewriter sculpture
- Bennachie, Totem Pole
- Dr Danny Gordon's cairn and a memorial bench
- THE CALLING OF THE CUCKOO IS THE OTHER SIDE OF SPRING
- The Felling of the Timber, is the making of the home
- The folding of the land
- the Gouk Stone, Bennachie
Categories
Creator
- Jonathan Claxton, Sculptor
Photographer
- Michael Watt
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