Place of Origin Sculpture

Place of Origin aims to draw attention to the historic granite quarry at Kemnay in Aberdeenshire. The sculpture project involves the construction of a new vantage point at the Southern rim of the Quarry and the creation of a community woodland leading towards the hill, passing through landscape features which reveal different characteristics of granite.
The project was first started in 1996 and is a collaboration between Kemnay Community Council, Aggregate Industries (owners of the Quarry) and the artist team, supported by the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden.
It's a little bit overgrown and neglected today but in retrospect perhaps that's very appropriate as a symbol of the town's industrial past.

Kemnay Quarries started production in 1858. And by 1880 employed over 250 men. Using steam cranes and Blondins (wire lifts); blocks of up to 3ft (0.91m) long and 100 tonnes in weight were produced in its heyday.
The quarry is credited with supplying stone for the Holborn Viaduct in nearby Aberdeen, the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Forth Railway Bridge.