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Rhynie, Aberdeenshire
Rhynie (/ˈraɪni/; Scottish Gaelic: Roinnidh) is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is on the A97 road, 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Alford.
Though only having a population of about 500 people today, research suggests that it was likely to have been home to thousands 1400 years ago.
The Rhynie Chert is named after the village, as is the fossil plant genus Rhynia. The Rhynie Chert is a sediment deposited in the Devonian period, contained important fossils that shows land ecosystem of the Devonian.
The missionary, teacher and chocolatier Alexander Murdoch Mackay was born in Rhynie on 13 October 1849.
The name Rhynie may involve an early Pictish rīg meaning "a king" (cf. Gaelic ríg/rí; cf. Welsh rhi).
Eight Pictish symbol stones have been found at Rhynie, including the "Rhynie Man", a 6-foot (1.8 m) tall boulder carved with a bearded man carrying an axe, possibly a representation of the Celtic god Esus, that was discovered in 1978. The "Rhynie Man" now stands inside Woodhill House (the headquarters of Aberdeenshire Council) in Aberdeen.
Between 2011 and 2017 investigations by archaeologists from Aberdeen University and Chester University by the Pictish symbol stone known as the Craw Stane, near the site where the "Rhynie Man" was found, uncovered a substantial pallisaded complex dating to the early medieval period. Among the finds at the site were fragments of a late 5th- or 6th-century Roman amphora that must have been imported from the Mediterranean region. This is the only known example of a Roman amphora from Eastern Britain dating to the post-Roman period, and indicates that the inhabitants of the settlement would have been of high status.
Archaeologists working at the excavation have speculated that the settlement may have been a royal site occupied by Pictish kings. It has been suggested that Rhynie may have been a centre for royal assemblies between the sixth and eighth centuries.
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Rhynie, Aberdeenshire
Rhynie (/ˈraɪni/; Scottish Gaelic: Roinnidh) is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is on the A97 road, 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Alford.
Though only having a population of about 500 people today, research suggests that it was likely to have been home to thousands 1400 years ago.
The Rhynie Chert is named after the village, as is the fossil plant genus Rhynia. The Rhynie Chert is a sediment deposited in the Devonian period, contained important fossils that shows land ecosystem of the Devonian.
The missionary, teacher and chocolatier Alexander Murdoch Mackay was born in Rhynie on 13 October 1849.
The name Rhynie may involve an early Pictish rīg meaning "a king" (cf. Gaelic ríg/rí; cf. Welsh rhi).
Eight Pictish symbol stones have been found at Rhynie, including the "Rhynie Man", a 6-foot (1.8 m) tall boulder carved with a bearded man carrying an axe, possibly a representation of the Celtic god Esus, that was discovered in 1978. The "Rhynie Man" now stands inside Woodhill House (the headquarters of Aberdeenshire Council) in Aberdeen.
Between 2011 and 2017 investigations by archaeologists from Aberdeen University and Chester University by the Pictish symbol stone known as the Craw Stane, near the site where the "Rhynie Man" was found, uncovered a substantial pallisaded complex dating to the early medieval period. Among the finds at the site were fragments of a late 5th- or 6th-century Roman amphora that must have been imported from the Mediterranean region. This is the only known example of a Roman amphora from Eastern Britain dating to the post-Roman period, and indicates that the inhabitants of the settlement would have been of high status.
Archaeologists working at the excavation have speculated that the settlement may have been a royal site occupied by Pictish kings. It has been suggested that Rhynie may have been a centre for royal assemblies between the sixth and eighth centuries.
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