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23-JUN-2005

Fetternear

Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3
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Date/Time23-Jun-2005 18:47:33
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Focal Length69.5 mm
Exposure Time1/250 sec
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ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias0.70
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harebell14-Aug-2008 14:09
MRA stands for Maria Regina Angelorum (Mary Queen of the Angels). The stone beneath the IHS MRA monograms is indeed inscribed with the date 1691. It also has the monograms of Patrick Leslie and Mary Irvine of Drum, his second wife. There is a buckle between the P and L from the coat of arms of the Leslies of Balquhain and a holly leaf between the M and I from the coat of arms of the Irvines of Drum. The ancestral home of the Leslies was Balquhain, and one of the houses there also has a stone inscribed with the IHS MRA monograms, but it is dated 1677. For more more information, see an article by P. Dransart and N.Q. Bogdan called 'The material culture of recusancy at Fetternear: kin and religion in post-Reformation Scotland', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 134 (2004), pp 457-470.
Chris Sofopoulos24-Jun-2005 16:55
Nice detail and tones.
laine8223-Jun-2005 23:28
Is that 1691 I see.
Coleen Perilloux Landry23-Jun-2005 22:59
Wonderful history here. I know the cross and IHS but I wonder what the MRA means.