#Woodside A curious stone, by 324 Clifton Road, marking the death place of the Rev. Robert Forbes of Woodside Free Church (died 21 October 1859, erected February 1894).

#Aberdeen A skewputt for James Dyce (of Badentoy), wigmaker, in the relict* gable of 59-60 Castle Street. In 1770 he wed Jean, daughter of Baillie William Fordyce of Achorthies of kidnapping infamy. He died Christmas Eve 1791, and is interred with his mother and brothers in St Nicholas kirkyard.

Weel-riggit ships #Aberdeen #TallShips

Weel-riggit ships #Aberdeen #TallShips

#Edinburgh Cavetto skewputts marking property limits at Gledstane's Land, Lawnmarket. "TG / BC" for proprietors Thomas Gledstane & Bessie Cunningham. The "trade mark" is described by John Geddie as "key and crescent" and HES as "saltire on vertical stem". I think the bowed part might be a staple.

#Aberdeen Some Gallowgate sketches from the Bon-Accord magazine. #1, a corbelled wing in Plasterer's Court, No. 70; #2, an anonymous tenement; #3, Mar's Castle pending Reid's Place, No. 144 digital.nls.uk/scotlands-ne...

I'm planning to spend a day in Inverness next week. I've never been there before. What shouldn't I miss?

#Aberdeen Two unhoused cartouche panels, as far as I know the last of their kind in the city. Auld vanity never looked so good.

The Beaker People are a warning from history that in thousands of years’ time we’ll be known as The Plastic Bottle People

#OldAberdeen This neat wee fella has kept watch over College Bounds for 255 years. (№ 2, the vestigial gable)

#Aberdeen Stones in Seamount Place from the east side of the Gallowgate between Littlejohn Street & Porthill Close. The topmost seems to betoken Skipper Daniel Farquharson & his wife Elisabeth Innes, wed 1714, who got sasine of William Souper's tenement in "vici furcarum", the Gallowgate, in 1716.

#Aberdeen At first glance 34 Marywell Street seems like just another late C20 build, but the dormers, lum & 1755 skewputt suggest otherwise.

"W S" may be William Shepherd, deacon of the Shoemakers trade in the 1750s, which laid out the street on the Marywell Croft c.1809.

Delighted to be commissioned by Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums to transcribe its treasured archival diaries of great Scottish artist-adventurer James McBey, who recorded his exploits across the globe, beginning in Scotland's north-east in 1909 & ending in Tangier, Morocco 50 years later.

#Aberdeen Fit fine wis "One Great Circle", a suite inspired by Stanley Robertson & played this afternoon at the Cowdray Hall by Fraser Fifield, Chris Stout & Catriona McKay. I've nae picture of that, so here's some Marischal rosettes instead. Also, Christmas market / Buith-raw is back, yay.

#Aberdeen On 4 August 1741, a fire broke out in a Broad-gait bakehouse. The damage is said to have compelled the council to legislate against wooden façades, prompting a flourishing of new granite tenements. I'll head to the Archives next year to get some particulars from the Council Registers.

Hullo! I'm interested in Aberdeen's antiquities, the auld streets, its buildings and their inscribed stones. My favourite kind of these is the humble skewputt, found at the foot of the gable, and overlooked by most. Four skewputts, four centuries. Faraboots?