Yonder Bognie

Nearest town:
Aberchirder (7km NNE)
OS reference:
NJ601458
OS sheet:
29
Latitude:
57° 30' 2.57 N
Longitude:
2° 39' 57.06 W
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Images

Image of Yonder Bognie (Stone Circle) by thelonious

10/11/2013 – We stood in the rain waiting for the sun to shine for ages but it never came. Least we had a nice rainbow over the recumbent.

thelonious
thelonious Nov 11, 2013
Image of Yonder Bognie (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

Recumbent and flankers, looking approx WNW. The fallen eastern flanker is a surprisingly thin slab.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (4.10.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 21, 2012
Image of Yonder Bognie (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

Clearance inside the circle. Some of these stones are undoubtedly from the circle itself.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (4.10.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 21, 2012
Image of Yonder Bognie (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

The inner face of the recumbent, looking SE in the general direction of the Raich stone circle.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (4.10.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 21, 2012

Articles

Yonder Bognie

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Dec 4, 2010

After a suitable lunch at the nearby Bognie Arms I walked back along the A97 to Yonder Bognie farm, jumped a couple of fences and made it to the circle. Abeit I was waist deep in snow. I’ve been here many times before but today it was extra quiet, extra beautiful and much more atmospheric. It was almost if the circle was at peace with itself almost enjoying the silence. All due to the weather and the A97 being devoid of traffic.

Visited 4/12/2010.

Yonder Bognie

Jane
Jane Jul 30, 2006

We asked at the farm, rather than at the cottage with nasty plastic swans in the garden. A friendly young man of dangerously fat proportions who was tinkering with a tractor in the yard told us it was OK to go in and have a look. He seemed quite pleased to have a visitor.

The circle is pretty trashed and looked shabby because for some reason it has recently been fenced off, so it hadn’t been grazed and was full of nasty weeds.

Moth really loved this, but I was really quite indifferent.

Yonder Bognie

greywether
greywether Apr 7, 2005

This is an interesting enough RSC. Nothing very remarkable about it but it’s in better nick than many.

I usually take copies of Thom’s plans to a site mainly as a handy starting point for my own scribbles. On this one he has the recumbent and flankers in the SE quadrant. They’re not. Makes you wonder, eh?

Anyway, of more interest, he refers to an outlying menhir in the SE having been removed by the farmer and his drawing shows the recumbent and flankers lying inside the circumference of the circle. Not unusual when there is a ring cairn but no evidence of that here.

Access The easiest way into the site is via the farm to the N on the E of the A97. I asked there and, although the circle is not on their land, they were happy to let me cross and to park in their yard.

Visited 17 March 2005

Miscellaneous

Yonder Bognie
Stone Circle
drewbhoy
drewbhoy May 2, 2009

If you ask the present occupiers to see the circle chances are they will be very helpful. I was shown inside one of the barns. Notches showing the heights of various Shand children over almost the last 500 years are marked on wooden posts. The Shand family only recently, 10 years ago, left Yonder Bognie. The daughter of the last Shand occupants still visits the circle with her daughters.

October 08.

Topics

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Moth
Moth
Apr 2005

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