Scheduled Monument
Whitehill, stone circle, Bogmore WoodSM55
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 17/08/1925
- Last Date Amended
- 05/08/1997
- Type
- Prehistoric ritual and funerary: stone circle or ring
- Local Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish
- Monymusk
- NGR
- NJ 64323 13506
- Coordinates
- 364323, 813506
Description
The monument comprises the Whitehill recumbent stone circle, some 4500 years old.
The circle lies in a clearing in a conifer plantation, adjacent to a forest road. It is about 20m in diameter. Only the recumbent stone, its W flanking pillar and two other stones are standing in their original positions. Within the circle are the remains of a ring cairn.
The monument has been scheduled before, but an inadequate area to protect all of the surviving remains was covered. The area now to be scheduled is a circle 40m in diameter, to include the visible remains of the circle and ring cairn and other features associated with their construction and use which may lie in the immediate vicinity, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Statement of National Importance
The monument is of national importance as a very good, representative example of its kind, which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of late Neolithic ceremonial and society in NE Scotland. The main elements of the site are still visible and it is likely that significant archaeological information survives within the site.
References
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