#HillfortWednesday
#TapONoth
#Rhynie
#CrawStane

Tap o Noth hill fort. Iron Age fort surrounded by <400 Pictish roundhouses (making it a potentially huge settlement by standards of the time).

Also in the foreground is the Craw Stane Pictish symbol stone at nearby Rhynie Pictish site.

📸 by me

Four photo collage, bright , clear, winters day. Blue skies with long white cloud formations. Top left: looking across a brown recently ploughed field and green fields, towards forested green hills. Top right: brown heather in the foreground, looking down to and across green and yellow fields to blue/purple peak and ridge. Bottom right: a wide expanse of brown heather towards brown and dark green forested hills. Bottom left: looking down over an expanse of green and brown fields, blue/purple hills in distance; a treeless brown tree to the right of the image.

Thursday, Hogmanay day, Kildrummy💙 #walking #hillwalking #ardhuncarthill #coiliochbhar #taponoth #kildrummy #aberdeenshire #walkingaberdeenshire

#HillfortSunday
#TapONoth

Iron Age hill fort. Massive vitrified walls with substantial reuse in Pictish era.

Four photo collage. Bright early winters day. Pale gold tones. Blue toned skies. Top left and bottom right: distance views to blue hills across green and pale yellow fields; some dark green conifers here and there. Top right and bottom left: blue/grey loch surrounded by pale green and yellow conifers, reflecting in the water. A small brown boat house with red roof in bottom left.

Monday and Tuesday, Birsemore and Knock Saul💙 #walking #knocksaul #taponoth #leslie #oldleslie #birsemore#birsemoreloch #aboyne #aberdeenshire

Four photo collage: summers day, blue skies, white fluffy clouds, walking towards Dunnideer hill fort. Top left: yellow barley field, leading to dark green conifer trees, onwards to green rounded hill with dark grey hill fort remains at top. Top right and bottom left: wooden fence post(s) in foreground; bright green fields leading to bank of dark green conifers; leading to rolling green hills. Bottom right: grey stone dyke and grey/brown twisted tree branches, leading to yellow barley field; leading to green rounded hill with dark grey hill fort remains at top.

Today, Insch💙 #walking #hiking #insch #dunnideer #dunnideerhillfort #hillofchristskirk #hillofflinder #taponoth #aberdeenshire #walkingaberdeenshire

A grid with 4 photos of landscape scenes in Aberdeenshire highlighting Autumn colours.

This week, Aberdeenshire💙 #walking #taponoth #suieroad #knockenspock #birsemoreloch #aboyne #boathouse #mithertap #bennachie #howeofalford #riverdee #autumncolours #walkingaberdeenshire