The Maiden Stone

For reasons best known to herself the daughter of the Laird of Balquhain made a bet with a stranger that she could bake a batch of bannocks in less time than it took him to build a road to the top of Bennachie. Of course the stranger was the devil himself and on losing the bet he turned the unfortunate lady to stone as she fled from his his advances.
This late Pictish monolith dates back some 1200 years and stands 3.2 metres tall. There are over 200 known symbol stones in Scotland and probably many more of them displaced or built into walls and dwellings. The Maiden Stone is probably the finest example of these.