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Glassel Stone Circle is a Bronze Age monument located in Bogarn Wood, Kincardineshire, comprising standing stones arranged in a circular formation. The site sits on bedrock of the Argyll Group, a geological formation of psammite, semipelite and pelite deposits laid down during the Neoproterozoic era. These ancient metamorphic rocks would have been well known to the prehistoric communities who erected the circle, and the local stone may have been incorporated into its construction.
Stone circles of this type typically date to the Bronze Age and served significant ritual or ceremonial functions within their communities. The Bogarn Wood setting provided a landscape familiar to people who exploited the surrounding woodland resources, whilst the cleared ground necessary for the monument's creation would have been visible across the local terrain.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM978, recognising its importance as evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and religious practice in northeast Scotland. The monument remains a notable example of the ceremonial landscape created during the second millennium BC in this region of Kincardineshire.
Glassel,stone circle,Bogarn Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM978. View the official record →
Glassel Stone Circle is a Bronze Age monument located in Bogarn Wood, Kincardineshire, comprising standing stones arranged in a circular formation. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM978.
Glassel,stone circle,Bogarn Wood dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a stone circle,bogarn wood. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Glassel,stone circle,Bogarn Wood is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM978.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cothill,symbol stone 600m NE of Craigmyle House (2.8 km), Auchmore Farm, hut circle 80m NW of (6.7 km), Bucharn, cairn 215m ESE of (6.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Glassel,stone circle,Bogarn Wood's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Glassel,stone circle,Bogarn Wood stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite, semipelite and pelite.