Continuity

This is the ancient, but still used, graveyard in Inverurie. Lying in a bend of the river Urie the site displays evidence of continuous human use stretching back for millennia.
The two large earth mounds projecting above the gravestones are together known as the Bass of Inverurie, and once supported a motte and bailey castle built by the Earls of Garioch in the 1100s. The castle was used as a base by Robert the Bruce before his defeat of the Earl of Buchan in May 1308 at the Battle of Inverurie.
A little to the west of the Bass there is group of four carved Pictish symbol stones dating from the dark ages. Later they were built into the walls of the now demolished medieval church which once served the community that developed around the Bass.
Nearby there are a pair of mort-stones that were once used to protect graves from the resurrection men in the 19th century.