2019
NJ3512 : Farquharson of Invercauld memorial, Strathdon kirkyard
taken 5 years ago, near to Bellabeg, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Farquharson of Invercauld memorial, Strathdon kirkyard
The fine sandstone monument with its memento mori symbols, situated on the outside wall of the kirk, is decaying badly. The lengthy blazon of the unusual arms is: quarterly 1st and 4th: or a lion rampant gules; 2nd and 3rd: argent a fir tree growing out of a mount in base fructed proper on a chief gules the royal banner of Scotland displayed on a canton of the field, a hand issuing from the sinister side holding a dagger also proper point downwards.
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