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Large Nude Statue, Fyvie Castle Garden Large stone carving of a female nude. Leopard 3d stone carving of a leopard decorating a balustrade. The late Captain Hay of Delgatie was an inveterate collector and the castle has many decorative elements that are now difficult to attribute to exact dates and provenances. 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. Lion Fountain, Drum A stone carving of a lion crouched to spring in the middle of a large circular pool. Little Ardo sign A reused old fashioned granite roller with deeply cut plain lettering "LITTLE ARDO" blacked in with paint or similar. Livestock Limo Cattle Truck Scania tractor cab and articulated livestock trailer painted in green with pale yellow lining and red shaded yellow lettering, on panels and side windows. Motifs of thistles, tartan and cartoon cattle. Loanhead of Daviot Recumbent-stone circle Recumbent stone circle containing a ring cairn with adjacent cremation cemetery. One of the stones, next to the flanker to the east of the recumbent, bears 12 cup marks. The stone circle precedes, in time, the cairn which covers cremations and the scattering of bone, flint and pottery. Excavation of the cairn showed use from the second to the first half of the first millenium B. C. . The adjacent Bronze Age cremation cemetry dates from circa 3500 years ago. At least 31 cremations and burials occured around a central pit, 8 of them children between 3 and 6. 11 deposits in urns have been found and 9 in pits some deposits containing several individuals. This place was used as a sacred site over an extended period of several thousands of years. LONMAY WAR MEMORIAL It is a tall, plain octagonal shaft with a cross surmounting it. At the base of the shaft, on a low plinth, is carved a wreath and slightly decorated angles.The cross stands on a solid rectangular base into which the names and inscriptions are carved. The base stands on a three-step plinth, the top one of which bears further inscriptions. The bottom one is of roughly hewn granite. It was unveiled on May 16, 1920. It commemorates the dead of both World War I & II. Lowrie Grave St. Mary's Banff 18th century stone with memento mori above the inscription "This stone is erected by James Lowrie, shoemaker in Banff, to the memory of John Lowrie and Janet -----, his father and mother, and John Lowrie, his son, who died October, 1755? aged . . ." Lumphanan War Memorial It is a simple granite built rectangluar shape with an inset plaque of white marble surmounted by a pointed angle within which is a carved celtic cross-head. It lies within a small memorial garden. commemorates the dead of both World War I & II. It was erected December 5th 1920.
