
Stone looking to the centre of the henge.
Stone looking to the centre of the henge.
Centre of the henge looking east.
Stone on the south.
North east section from outside the henge.
From the north.
North west section of the henge.
Centre of Quarry Wood henge – not easy to photograph, too big
Quarry Wood henge
Quarry Wood henge
stones inside Quarry Wood henge
Quarry Wood henge
Drawing of Henge on notice broad
We parked at the car park on Brumley Brae, to the west of Elgin, opposite the southern end of Hamilton Drive. From there we followed a maze of paths in a south westerly direction. We entered the 40 + metres wide inner/50 + metres outer henge from the eastern side. Similar type entrances occur to the west, north (which has the notice board) and south. Various stones might mark entrances, or remnants of circles or are just flukily placed stones. I’d like to think they were circles once upon a time situated within the henge. With all the forestry work I guess we will never know. Quarrying has removed some of the henge further adding to the damage. However it now seems to site is being looked after as they found a ‘curved bank’ in the north.
People from Elgin still refer to this as the Danish Camp and they certainly know how to look after the paths. It would be nice to think the archaeos would look after the henge. At least the site is now clear of trees hopefully they might get round to clearing the site of vegetation.
Visited 5/11/2016.
One of the few henges in the NE of Scotland. As of 1997 the trees were cleared away from this site in a forest to the west of Elgin.