Bass from Inverurie

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The Bass with footpath up

The Bass of Inverurie ( English The Bass of Inverurie ) and the "Inverurie Cemetery" are closely adjacent collections of monuments from two historical periods. The Bass is south of Inverurie between the Ury (also called Urie River) and the B993 in Aberdeenshire in Scotland .

The Moth and the Bailey

Here is a well-preserved medieval moth ( English the bass ) with a bailey, ( English the little bass ). The Bass of Inverurie is a natural mound that was transformed into a moth in the 12th century, topped with a wooden tower and palisade built by the Earls of Garioch in 1100. It has a platform about 15 m high and 20 m in diameter. The castle was used in 1308 by Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) before his victory over the Earl of Buchan at the (first) Battle of Inverurie (also called Battle of Barra) as a base because it was northeast of Inverurie near the Hills of Barra fought.

Small finds

A number of small finds (various cuts , a club, a green glazed jug from the 14th century with a mask) come from the surrounding area, which has been converted into an old cemetery, which houses a number of four Pictish symbol stones .

The four symbol stones

The four symbol stones used to be built into the walls of the old church and, after the church was torn down, into the cemetery wall. Today they stand in a row in the cemetery. You probably come from the area.

  • One is decorated with pairs of symbols: a crescent moon and a V-rod over a disk and a rectangular symbol and a snake and a Z-rod over a double disk and a Z-rod.
  • the second has a disk and a rectangle over an arch symbol
  • the third shows a disc over a double disc and a Z-bar
  • the fourth is decorated with a horse.

literature

  • Alexander Ormiston Curle : Note on a pottery mask and sherds of medieval pottery found at the Bass of Inverurie, with some particulars of the Bass. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Volume 53, 1919, pp. 46-50 ( archaeologydataservice.ac.uk PDF; 443 kB).
  • RBK Stevenson: Pictish art . In: Frederick Threlfall Wainwright (Ed.): The Problem of the Picts. Melven Press, Perth 1980. ISBN 0-906664-07-1
  • PA Yeoman: M ottes in Northeast Scotland , Scot Archaeol Rev, vol. 5 1988

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Coordinates: 57 ° 16  '31.7 " N , 2 ° 21' 53.7"  W.