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Rhynie

The village green and war memorial, Rhynie Kirk behind the green, with Tap o' Noth in the distance

Rhynie (/ˈraɪni/) (Scottish Gaelic: Roinnidh) is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is 14 miles northwest of Alford.

The Rhynie chert is named after the village, as well as the extinct plant genus Rhynia. The Rhynie chert is a sedimentary rock. It was deposited during the Devonian period and contains the oldest fossil insect in the world.[1]

The Station Hotel at Rhynie is mentioned as a joke in the sketch "The Will" by Scotland the What. The joke is that there is no railway station at Rhynie, "..but they were aye hopin' for one."

  1. ↑ "The oldest fossil insect in the world". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

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