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Elgin Cathedral, Spynie Palace, Forres Sueno's stone, Dallas Dhu distillery
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Sous ce nom barbare se cache un cerche de pierres (stone circle) censé donc être un lieu pour les rituels. La dénomination "Easter Aquhorthies" semble être dérivée de "field of prayer" en gaëllique.
Sur les lieux on apprend que ce cercle possède des propriétés acoustiques. Pour les connaisseurs donc.
Easter Aquhorthies Recumbent Stone Circle near Inverurie in North East Scotland is one of the more well known recumbent circles. Dating from around 3000 B.C., the diameter of the circle is approximately 20 metres. The circle stones vary from 1.116 m to 1.77 m in height, are very broad and massive, and are of pinkish porphyry or red jasper whereas the flankers and recumbent are of grey and red granite respectively. The recumbent stone is 12'6" 3.81m) long, of reddish granite, and is thought to weigh 9 tons.
Photos au fish-eye pour essayer d'obtenir une vue d'ensemble, d'où la déformation sensible que vous pouvez percevoir.
Un château en ruines ayant conservé plusieurs façades et cheminées sculptes asez exceptionnelles.
Remarkable for its splendid architecture, Huntly Castle served as a baronial residence for five centuries.
Many impressive features include a fine heraldic sculpture and inscribed stone friezes.
Une imposante cathédrale. Et une très belle chapelle (ancienne salle du chapitre).
Elgin Cathedral, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, sometimes referred to as The Lantern of the North is a historic ruin in Elgin, Moray, north-east Scotland. It was established in 1224 on an area of ground granted by Alexander II that was close to the River Lossie and outside of the burgh of Elgin. Before its transfer to its present position the cathedral was located at Spynie, 3 km to the north, and was served by a chapter of eight clerics.
The new cathedral, much larger than before, was staffed accordingly with the number of canons increased to 18 in 1226 and then again to 23 by 1242. A fire in 1270 damaged the cathedral significantly initiating a major rebuilding programme that substantially increased the size of the edifice. It was unaffected by the Wars of Independence but was again badly damaged by burning in 1390 following an attack by Robert III's brother Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, also known as the Wolf of Badenoch. In 1402 the cathedral precinct again suffered an incendiary attack by the followers of the Lord of the Isles.
The number of clerics required to staff the cathedral grew steadily as did the quantity of craftsmen needed to maintain the buildings and surrounds. The number of canons had increased to 25 by the time of the Reformation in 1560 when the cathedral was abandoned and the services transferred to Elgin's parish church of St Giles. After the removal of the lead from the roof in 1567, the cathedral fell steadily into decay which was only arrested in the 19th century when it was in a substantially ruinous condition.
L'abbé avait les moyens à l'époque !
Comme il ne pouvait habiter la cathédrale mentionnée juste avant, il a fait construire ce palais à 3 km environ.
For five centuries until 1686, Spynie Palace was the residence of the bishops of Moray.
Spynie Palace, also known as Spynie Castle, was the fortified seat of the Bishops of Moray for about 500 years. The founding of the palace dates back to the late 12th Century. It is situated about 500m from the location of the first officially settled Cathedral Church of the Diocese of Moray, in present day Spynie Churchyard. For most of its occupied history, the castle was not described as a palace — this term first appeared in the Registry of Moray in a writ of 1524.
Une ancienne pierre picte d'une hauteur assez considérable. Comme on peut le voir, elle est très bien protégée par un cube. C'est un peu dommage pour les photos, mais compréhensible pour sa sauvegarde. On pourrait même être étonné qu'elle soit arrivée jusqu'à nous dans cet état.
The most remarkable sculptured monument in Britain, probably a cenotaph, standing over 20 feet high and dating to the end of the first millennium AD.
Cette pierre énigmatique est une pierre picte sculptée montrant des scènes d’une bataille épique inconnue.
Les Pictes ont laissé peu de documents écrits, mais ils ont érigé de nombreuses pierres avec des sculptures détaillées.
La Pierre de Sueno, d'environ 6 mètres de haut, est la plus haute pierre picte existante. Les styles de sculpture indiquent qu’il s’agit de la fin de la période picte, peut-être sculptée au IXème ou Xème.
Le panneau supérieur montre une armée qui arrivent. Les deux panneaux du milieu indiquent la bataille et la défaite de l’armée.
On ne sait pas quel bataille cela décrit, ni clairement qui étaient les protagonistes. Une théorie est que la Pierre montre la victoire des Scots dirigée par mac Kenneth Alpin sur les Pictes au IXe siècle. Une autre interprétation est qu’elle montre un combiné écossais et Pictes se battant contre les Vikings au IXe-Xe siècle.
 Le cube protégeant la pierre picte
Diffcile de se rendre en Ecosse sans passer par au moins une distillerie. Celle-ci n'est plus en activité depuis les années 8, mais cela nous permet donc de faire le tour des différentes salles pour le procédé de fabrication du whisky.
Intéressant.
Dallas Dhu Distillery produced whisky from 1899 to 1983. The first barrel was filled on 3 June 1899, and the last on 16 March 1983.
During the First World War it was closed. After the War, Wright & Greig sold it to J. P. O’Brien & Co Ltd of Glasgow, but they went into liquidation in 1921, and Dallas Dhu was sold to Benmore Distillery.
The new owners invested heavily in developments to the site, including a new railway siding. But the Great Depression forced closure in the early 1930s. Soon after reopening production, the distillery was badly damaged by fire, on 9 April 1939. Production began again in 1947, but was finally closed in 1983, largely because of a water shortage caused by prolonged drought.
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