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A hidden piece of history. Not much publicised, the three small Logie Elphinstone Pictish Symbol Stones stand upright in a small circle in the grounds of Logie Country House Wedding Venue, near Pitcaple, Inverurie. They are accessible to all and can be found just past the first Wedding Parking sign to the left before you get to the gateposts by Logie Country House. When I casually found them I thought they were modern fakes. Their size, their sculptures and their anomalous position gave me that wrong impression. Much later I discovered these Class 1 stones were part of four stones found lying on the ground on the Moor of Carden to the west of Logie Elphinstone House around 1821. At that time the moor was planted and three of the stones were built into the enclosing wall, while the fourth was used as a floor slab in a kiln and ‘split by the heat and destroyed’. The three symbol stones were subsequently removed from the wall and erected in the house gr...