Ancient Scotland - Druids Seat Wood

Druids Seat Wood

Blairgowrie, Perthshire

Stone Circle

Also known as Blindwells

Although somewhat ruinous - not to mention vandalised with New-Age Magickal Graffitti^TM - this is a wonderfully atmospheric and beautiful stone circle.

Set in a clearing in Druids' Seat Wood just north of Perth, it is peaceful and lit with soft green light through the trees. (Edit: That was true when I created this page in 1999; since then, the forest has been cleared and it is much harder to see the charm of the site amongst the tree stumps and tyre ridges.)

There are nine stones in a thirty-foot circle ranging from a stocky squared boulder nearly six feet tall down to much smaller stones little over two feet tall. Tall and short stones alternate round the circle, although this is not so obvious now that several of the stones have fallen.

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Looking southwest. The southwestern-most stone is clearly the most massive, but a fallen stone at the southeast would have been taller.

6/14 Looking southwest. The southwestern-most stone is clearly the most massive, but a fallen stone at the southeast would have been taller.

Another view of the southeastern arc

7/14 Another view of the southeastern arc

The southern arc, the southwestern-most stone in the foreground with the taller fallen southeastern-most stone beyond at the far left

8/14 The southern arc, the southwestern-most stone in the foreground with the taller fallen southeastern-most stone beyond at the far left

View of the whole circle from the north east

9/14 View of the whole circle from the north east

View of the circle from the south east

10/14 View of the circle from the south east

View of the circle from the north west

11/14 View of the circle from the north west

View from further outside the circle at the north west

12/14 View from further outside the circle at the north west

The northwestern arc

13/14 The northwestern arc

The southern arc

14/14 The southern arc

Nearby Sites

1km Blackfaulds Stone Circle

1km Colen Wood Stone Circle

2km Wolfhill Stones Standing Stones

5km Murrayshall Standing Stone

5km Shianbank Stone Circles

7km Perth Museum Pictish Stones

8km Murthly Pictish Stone Pictish Symbol Stone Class III

13km Kettins Pictish Cross-Slab Pictish Stone Class III

13km Leys of Marlee Stone Circle

14km Dupplin Cross Pictish Free-Standing Cross

16km Dunkeld Park Standing Stone

17km Courthill Stone Standing Stone

19km Dunning Standing Stone

19km Woodside, Hill of Drimmie Stone Circle

20km Fowlis Wester Pictish Stones Pictish Stones

20km Fowlis Wester Stone Circles Stone Circles; Standing Stone; Cairn

(NB: All distances are as-the-crow-flies. Lochs, mountains and beautiful winding roads will make it further. Sometimes much further.)