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South face of the Maiden Stone - a three-metres-tall pink granite Pictish symbol stone dating from the late 8th or early 9th century - Chapel of Garioch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
According to Aberdeenshire Council the legend behind the stone relates to a daughter of the laird of Balquhain, who on her wedding day bet a stranger that she would be able to bake a batch of bread before he could build a road to the top of Bennachie, on whose flanks the stone lies, or 'she would become his own'. The stranger, who was none other than the devil, won the wager, and the fleeing maiden turned to stone just as he caught her.
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Photo size: 21.0 Mpixels (60.2 MB uncompressed) - 3744x5616 pixels (12.5x18.7 in / 31.7x47.5 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: Aberdeenshire, archaeology, Balquhain, Bennachie, carve, carved, carving, cross, devil, Garioch, historic, historical, history, Martin Grace, Pict, Pictish, pink granite, religion, religious, Scotland, Scottish history, slab, standing stone, stone, symbol, symbolic
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