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Asleid 1
Upper Mains of Asleid farm sign close up

A cut sheet metal painted farm sign showing a ploughman with a horse and plough.

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Asleid 2
Upper Mains of Asleid farm sign 2 close up

A cut sheet metal sign by the same artist as Asleid 1, on another entrance to the farm this time illustrating a horseman with a box cart.

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Asleid 3
Upper Mains of Asleid weather vain

A sheet metal painted weather vane created by the brother of G Christie who made the related farm signs.

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Culsh Monument
Culsh Monument

The 80ft (24m) Culsh Monument, erected 1876 in memory of William Fordyce MP of Brucklay , Aberdeenshire's first MP.
Viewing platforms are provided at the base, and at the top of the spiral staircase within the tower. On a clear day the distant Caithness Hills can be seen to the north, Ben Rinnes at Dufftown in the west, the Grampian Mountains to the south and Peterhead to the east.

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Culsh Monument Viewpoint
View North East to Mormond Hill

A sculptural granite, viewing and orientation point, located next to a steepled tower built as a memorial.

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Faddonhill Farms Sign
Faddenhill Sign

A silhouette farm sign in the shape of a fat ox. These cut out signs were once ubiquitous in the area in the forms of pigs, cattle, horses and etc. they are now becoming rare. The original 20th century sign (illustrated here for reference) was replaced in 2004 after storm damage. The new sign retains the ox of the original but the painted lettering has been replaced with gilded cut out metal lettering and 2 decorative gilded fleur de lys.

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Light buoy installation
light buoy installation

An installation in a field of a light buoy, an object one normally only sees the very top of emerging from the sea. The same track end also has surreall traffic lights which surprise the viewer as they are unexpected on a farm track.

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Little Ardo sign
Little Ardo sign

A reused old fashioned granite roller with deeply cut plain lettering "LITTLE ARDO" blacked in with paint or similar.

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New Deer War Memorial
New Deer War Memorial

A war memorial of the Celtic Cross type decorated with knotwork on the head only. It has a large angled base of rough-dressed granite into which are set plaques with the names of the dead of both World War I & II.

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