Quarry Wood

Also known as:
Quarrelwood
Nearest town:
Elgin (3km E)
OS reference:
NJ185630
OS sheet:
28
Latitude:
57° 38' 58.6 N
Longitude:
3° 21' 56.45 W
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Quarry Wood

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Nov 15, 2016

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.

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