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19th Mar 2025  17:53  by Katrinaandrea89

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

A quick bag from road

20th Feb 2025  08:25  by Dubvine

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

29th Nov 2024  07:59  by Robert Phillips

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Early morning from the turning area.

©Robert Phillips

25th Aug 2024  16:49  by Arbroath36

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

11th Jun 2023  20:51  by vegibagger

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

edge of field western Brechin

21st May 2023  09:17  by Lippymac81

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 10/10

2nd Dec 2022  11:20  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Parked at the end of the lane at the turning area. Quick walk and back to the trig.

9th May 2021  16:40  by B.bird

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Parked in the School car park (Sunday) short walk from there

Pillar Hidden in the grass©B.bird

6th Aug 2020  18:34  by rococo1805

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Walk from Brechin. Buried in the long grass and attacked by nettles. Not great in shorts.

30th May 2020  05:45  by scotti

Gridref: NO 58845 60883   FB Number: S5904  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Easily reached from the centre of Brechin.

Viewed from the south
Close up of pillar

1st Oct 2019  16:00  by Sealf4

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Continuing my walking tour around the Pillars of Brechin. Walked here from Ardovie but chose the most scenic route, including a detour into Brechin Cathedral and a problem finding a way through a new housing estate not marked on the map. I hit the school at turfing out time and had to work against the tide for a while. Interesting name but all the houses were on the other side of the hedge and there were no sign of gods (although I met 2 cats, who may have thought they were gods). Pillar appeared in better condition than Ardovie but the cap was missing.

16th Jun 2019  14:25  by nozzer

Gridref: NO 58850 60881   FB Number: S5904  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

cop missing

23rd Feb 2019  15:04  by thejackrustles

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Really surprised how easy this one was to get to, drove to turning circle and parked and then a very short walk to the trigpoint.

Maisondieu selfie ©thejackrustles
Maisondieu collage ©thejackrustles

23rd Feb 2019  15:04  by gerryu2

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Really surprised how easy this one was to get to, drove to turning circle and parked and then a very short walk to the trigpoint.

Maisondieu Pokemon Hatters ©gerryu2

20th Oct 2018  13:09  by wrose

Gridref: NO 58853 60880   FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Nothing really to add other than to confirm that it is still there in the condition previously described.

S5904 Maisondieu Pillar.
S5904 Maisondieu Flush Bracket.
S5904 Maisondieu Plug.

20th Oct 2018  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NO 58852 60875   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

2nd Sep 2018  13:20  by BigJ

Gridref: NO 58851 60881   FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Drove up unclassified road from the SW. Parking at the top in a wide bellmouth. Trig just over old railway.

15th Aug 2018  10:55  by fergie

Gridref: NO 58843 60882   FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Parked beside the Brechin Campus and over to the pillar

Maisondieu Easy access, parked near the school and it was beside a track
Maisondieu,Brechin S5904©fergie

5th Aug 2018  15:16  by Aqueously90

Gridref: NO 58850 60879   FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

Log #537. Parking behind school, then quick wee walk up to pillar. Slight damage to one corner as mentioned previously. Cap missing, not much else to note. [ExP-367/MiP-40/Rev-6/BM-43/IS-53/Other-28]

FB
Pillar
Cap missing

21st Mar 2018  10:12  by Sandrax2

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

©Sandrax2
©Sandrax2

10th Apr 2016  12:30  by Borderer

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Took the road to the west of the school at parked at the end of the road 30 metres or so from the pillar.

©Borderer

31st Dec 2015  14:10  by Mickandkim

Gridref: NO 58852 60882   FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Up side of new school

11th Oct 2014  13:00  by Wubbleyew

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

This was close to Brechin High School where there are extensive building works going on. The pillar is set on a piece of scrubby grassland just a few hundred yards from the A90, and very close to the former Forfar to Brechin railway, part of which is now a footpath running behind the school. All sight holes closed; no cap.

9th Aug 2014  13:30  by Sandman

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

©Sandman

21st Jun 2013  09:58  by zephyrus

Gridref: NO 58888 60855   FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

En route to Mount Keen, this one made up for the disappointment of the nettles & barbed wire guarding Findowrie

27th Sep 2009  22:23  by Fester

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Forgot about this one until passing by last Sunday and remembered it from years gone by...

19th Jan 2008  15:55  by coinea

Gridref: NO 58848 60862   FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

S5904 Maisondieu ©coinea

23rd May 2007  12:12  by bluebeard

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

very minor damage to one corner. possibly result of nearness of school

25th Mar 2007  21:35  by perth pathfinders

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

nice easy find thank you

24th Mar 2007  11:25  by snaik

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 3/10

Well its still there, can almost drive right up to it.

17th May 2005  09:07  by discjirm

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

On the edge of a housing estate in Brechin, visited as part of the TGO Challenge. How long this one will remain intact is hard to guess, with the houses so close.

Maisondieu trig pillar. Maisondieu trig pillar.©discjirm
Maisondieu trig pillar spider. Maisondieu trig pillar spider.©discjirm

28th Aug 2004  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 2/10

S5904
S5904
S5904

6th Apr 2004  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

vgc, remains of resin plug, edge of field a few m NW of dis rly bridge

21st Mar 2004  17:40  by fasgadh

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

Plug gone, what with a school just down the road! So has the concrete replacement. Corner chipped. The future is interesting for this one, Brechin is growing out to the bypass, new houses are close, and it will not be long until they build here. Will someone get a garden feature or will it join the ranks of blue meanies. Watch this space.

Maison Dieu Brechin is getting ever closer.

19th Aug 1998  13:51  by clochandighter

FB Number: S5904  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Pillar completed 2nd March 1950. Tertiary station in Block NO89. Trig pillar in good condition, but too near civilisation to retain an OS centre cap. Flush bracket faces southwest. On the outskirts of Brechin. Nearby trig pillar, COOKSTON (S6010 completed 10/03/1950, destroyed 09/1974) gave way to what is now the A90. Sites visited 19/08/1998, GRP.

S5904 - Maisondieu Trig pillar & FB.