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National Cycle route marker, Stonehaven Cast metal Way-Marker erected to indicate a point on the national cycle route network. Contains images relating to local geology. The important fossil bearing strata of the local. Part of a millennium cycle route project funded by the Millennium commission. The shape of the whole piece is obviously intended to suggest the tail of a fish or a whale, I am not sure which. Neep Chapper Beastie The original implement used to chop turnips for cattle feed has been given a dramatic new persona with some subtle welded and assembled additions and a paint job. New Aberdour Millennium Memorial A minimalist monument consisting of a menhir of undressed granite, inscribed with the numerals 2000, recalling the megaliths of prehistory. New Aberdour War Memorial Typical village war memorial in the form of a Celtic cross, in a style that through the 19th cent Celtic revival ultimately derives from the circa 9th cent. crosses of Iona. These in turn draw on manuscript art and Pictish sculpture and metalwork. New Byth war memorial A war memorial of an elegant classical design 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. New Pitsligo Millennium Memorial A monument consisting of a simple pillar of dressed granite, topped by a granite pyramid on a pedestal of coursed granite rubble with part dressed corners, in a formal setting of paving and planting with commemorative wooden benches. In the recent past New Pitsligo was noted for its granite quarries, all now closed, and was home to many masons and stonecutters. The form of this monument with its reused stone recalls this aspect of local history. The inscription reads: "1787 - 2000 NEW PITSLIGO (CYAAK) This planned village was founded in 1787 by Sir William Forbes (1739-1806) descendant of Alexander Forbes last Lord Pitsligo, Lt Colonel in the cavalry of 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' at the 1745 uprising. This monument and garden were created by, and for the people of New Pitsligo in 2000 A.D. to honour our history and mark the new millennium." New Pitsligo War Memorial A village war memorial of cenotaph type constructed from granite ashlar blocks with appliqued bronze palm leaf and etc. The village and town war memorials of Scotland have distressingly long lists of remembered dead in proportion to the populations of the communities. New Strains at COAST 2010 Hanging acrylic panels engraved with Latin botanical names the English translations of which are used as women's names. New Street, Railings & serpent and eagle wall ornaments There are two sets of interesting railings opposite each other. The right hand one is composed of equal armed crosses, pommée, (bottom photograph) there is additional iron work relief set inside the garden wall to the left with a matched pair of eagles, painted black, in conflict with serpents painted red. They are in a cement wall which has railings on top. The figures are cast iron, they sit on an iron rail and the back of the recess is also lined with iron or steel. The recess in which they sit is mirrored on the opposite wall of the joint garden with No.10. That recess has rust marks which show that another pair of similar figures resided in that recess The wall ornaments on the left are minimal but also seem to have a religious theme with Latin crosses that are both pommée (with balls) and triumphant (on orbs). Newbigging house sign Newbigging (std. Eng. new building) House sign in wrought iron, with scroll work and leaf decoration. Newmachar War Memorial It commemorates the dead of both World War I & II. It is a tall, rectangular, slightly tapering, plain cross, with an inner solid ring making it somewhat intermediate between Celtic/Roman, standing on a slightly tapering rectangular base, with the inscriptions on each face of the base. The base in turn sits on a three-step plinth of roughly hewn granite. Within a circle, in the centre of the crosshead on either side, are the dates of the two world wars. It is surrounded by an iron fence. Newstead, farm sign Cuminestown An elegant sheet metal cut out sign. The image while at first appearing to be simply an icon of the farm's livestock has an element of dark comic narrative, the tiny chick is threatened by an omnivorous and greedy sow, it is unaware of its possible impending doom while the mother hen leads it to shelter beneath the indifferent cow maybe escaping one gruesome end to suffer another. No Sea View, house sign A relief ceramic? plaque mounted on driftwood and suspended with a scrap of fishing net. North Sea first air crossing memorial A small monolith of pink Peterhead granite set upright on a rotunda of masonry itself set on a pavement of irregular slabs all in rough Peterhead granite, a bronze plaque has this inscription "From the sands of Cruden Bay on the 30th July 1914 the Norwegian Aviator Kommander Tryggve Gran D.F.C made the first crossing of the North Sea by air." Underneath in smaller letters "RGC"
