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Latitude: 57.2109 / 57°12'39"N
Longitude: -2.5923 / 2°35'32"W
OS Eastings: 364323
OS Northings: 813506
OS Grid: NJ643135
Mapcode National: GBR M9YN.R5T
Mapcode Global: WH8P5.40VV
Entry Name: Whitehill, stone circle, Bogmore Wood
Scheduled Date: 17 August 1925
Last Amended: 5 August 1997
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM55
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: stone circle or ring
Location: Monymusk
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Huntly, Strathbogie and Howe of Alford
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
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.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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