Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Tour Scotland photograph the old Abdie Church, Fife, Scotland. The remains of the old church of Abdie is found at Grange of Lindores, about a mile to the south of Newburgh. In 1300, Abdie was referred to as Ebedyn, a modem descendent of an old ecclesiastical term denoting a 'shrine' connected with an abbey or monastery. As Abdie was known to have existed before Lindores Abbey was built the shrine probably bore some relationship to the ancient Celtic foundation of Abernethy, of which all trace has been swept away. In the foundation charter of Lindores Abbey by David Earl of Huntingdon in 1178, the first bequest made to the Abbey was the Church of Lindores, as Abdie was then known. The probable derivation of Lindores is Lann, sacred enclosure and Dobbar, pronounced dour, water hence Church by the water. Its altar, like Flisk Church) was dedicated to St. Ninian, a 5th century missionary while the building was dedicated to St. Adrian, a 9th century bishop of Abemethy whose name is also associated with Macduff s cross. There are several stones in and around the church that are of interest including a floreated cross found under the floor of the chancel and a 14th century sculptured recumbent figure of an ecclesiastic clad in cassock and amice, hood with tassels.
Tour Scotland travel video of the Pictish Symbol Stone on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Abdie, Fife, Scotland. This Pictish stone originally stood on the crest of Kaim Hill, but was then moved to a garden wall at Lindores, and subsequently moved to the Old Mort House at Abdie Churchyard. The stone is decorated with a triple disc symbol and crescent and V-rod symbols, and also with a mirror on one side. The stone also bears a sundial and benchmark.
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Tour Scotland travel video of the War Memorial on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. The Newburgh war memorial is a tall freestone pedestal of classical design supporting the sculpture of a highland infantryman by Edinburgh sculptor Alexander Carrick.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the 51st Highland Division Monument at Bruar, Perthshire, Scotland. The 51st Highland Division was an infantry division of the British Army that fought on the Western Front in France during the World War I from 1915 to 1918. The division was raised in 1908, upon the creation of the Territorial Force, as the Highland Division and later 51st Highland Division from 1915.
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