Deil’s Stane

Also known as:
Grey Stone
Nearest town:
Kintore (5km ENE)
OS reference:
NJ73711569
OS sheet:
38
Latitude:
57° 13' 52.39 N
Longitude:
2° 26' 7.87 W
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Image of Deil’s Stane (Natural Rock Feature) by drewbhoy

And my good pal Bennachie once again sneaks into the foties.

Image credit: drew/amj
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jan 29, 2015
Image of Deil’s Stane (Natural Rock Feature) by drewbhoy

The Green and White Hills (nice names) behind, home to Whitehill RSC and Luath’s Stone.

Image credit: drew/amj
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jan 29, 2015

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Deil’s Stane

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jan 29, 2015

I remember this stone when it sat all alone looking back at its ‘once upon a time’ home Bennachie. Now it sits in the middle of some fairly recently built houses. Approaching from the east on the B993, I turned left just after the Bennachie Lodge (this used to be a really good pub) up Bogbeth Road and parked at the sports ground. From here I walked further along until the 2nd road leading up into the houses. At the top of the hill the Deil’s Stone should also be looking back down.

It truly is a massive triangular shaped stone reckoned to weigh 250 tonnes. Certainly the Devil must be strong and certainly a better aim than Jock O Bennachie. Good views to Bennachie and the Green/White Hills in an area full of prehistory. Also known as the Grey Stone.

Visited 29/1/2015.

Folklore

Deil’s Stane
Natural Rock Feature
Rhiannon
Rhiannon May 14, 2013

The Devil’s Stane.
This is a large rock which stands in the middle of a cultivated field near the parish church of Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, and which, tradition affirms, the Devil threw at the church from the neighbouring mountain of Bennachie, in order to revenge the good deeds of the parish priest.

A note to accompany a poem about the stone, in The Scottish Journal, 1847. It sounds like a good bit of geological speculation – the Boulder Committee of the Royal Society of Edinburgh say

there is a boulder of grey granite, called the Devil’s Stone, estimated to weigh about 250 tons, which lies not far from the old kirk. There is no rock of that nature in Kemnay parish, but there is at Bennachie, a hill about seven or eight miles to the westward.

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