Located about 50 miles from Aberdeen, the village of Rhynie lies along what is known as the Rhynie Chert. It was here that the ancient Picts first lived and evidence exists that there was a settlement here in the 4th and 5th centuries. There are two Pictish stones standing outside the Old Churchyard in Rhynie with carvings and symbols. However, weather has taken its toll on these stones and the carvings are hard to see. Rhynie is also the place where the Rhynie Man was discovered in 1978. This is a six-foot boulder depicting the figure of a man clad in some sort of sleeved garment that comes to his knee. In the depiction, he seems to be walking and carrying an axe. It is believed to date back to about 700 A.D. Along the Rhynie Chert, archaeologists have also excavated fossils believed to be about 400 million years old.
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