The Dinnie Stones (also called Stanes or Steens) are a pair of Scottish lifting stones located in Potarch, Aberdeenshire. They were made famous by strongman Donald Dinnie, who reportedly carried the stones barehanded across the width of the Potarch Bridge, a distance of 17 ft 1+1⁄2 in (5.22 m), in 1860. They remain in use as lifting stones.[1]
The stones are composed of granite, with iron rings affixed. They have a combined weight of 332.49 kg (733 lb 0 oz; 52+1⁄2 st), with the larger stone weighing 188.02 kg (414 lb 8 oz; 29+1⁄2 st) and the smaller stone weighing 144.47 kg (318 lb 8 oz; 23 st).[2]
The stones were reportedly selected in the 1830s as counterweights for use in maintaining the Potarch Bridge.[1] They were lost following World War I, but were rediscovered in 1953 by David P. Webster.[1]
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