4th-9thC village, itself Rhynie’s precursor!īarflat is currently farmed by a private owner, but he is a Rhynie fella & shares in their fellowship & supports the village in its having their “Rhynie Man” return “home”. Top pic also shows famous Barflat Pictish Class I stone of Salmon & Dolphin on site of a thriving Pictish settlement, in part excavated recently by University of Aberdeen: finding many more treasures from the same era-A.D. It lies in Dufftown heartland, home of Glenlivet, Glenfiddich & other Distilleries and Huntly, ABD 10mi E., roughly equidistant from Banffshire coast & Aberdeen. Rhynie has many secrets apart from its Pictish carvings, its proximity to ancient Wheedlemont RSC & its other claim to fame, the massive Pictish stronghold atop Tap o’Noth, second in size only to Pictish Burghead on the Moray coast 20 mi N. A whole continent & another ocean farther East, within Scotland’s ancient Pictish kingdoms & Regalities of Fidach & Cé, lies the hidden village of Rhynie-original home to Pictish Class I carved stone ‘Rhynie Man’, presently housed in Aberdeen, but residents are working to have him returned to his companions in Market Square.
