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Natural PlacesSite Name: Bogle Stane Alternative Name: The Bogle Stone, Bogal StaneCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.256 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Inverclyde Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Port Glasgow Nearest Village: Kilmacolm
Map Ref: NS3370773634
Latitude: 55.926938N Longitude: 4.663162W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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AstroGeologist visited on 10th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 5 Bogle Stane :
Quite large remains of a Glacial Erratic perched at the top of the Clune Brae.
At some time in the distant past there was an minister who lived in the area, and jealous of the lore and superstitions surrounding the Monolith, he sneakily arranged to have to stone blown up and carted off to be used to build some local dykes, with enough left over to make some curling stones.
You can clearly see where the gunpowder shattered the rock in pieces.
Said to have been nearly 4m tall before it was destroyed, it would have been seen for miles around, and was said to have been a local beauty and picnic spot back then, with fantastic views across the River Clyde of Ben Lomond 29km away.
The trackway from Kilmacolm to Port Glasgow used to run on the other side of the Bogle Stane, which is why it is sometimes (Incorrectly) said to have been 'moved' across the road.
It is stuck right beside a path and a road, across from a school that used to be called Boglestone School (Now called Newark after the Castle at the bottom of the Clune Brae) it has houses and shops surrounding it and the place is just chaos. The peaceful serenity this place once had is now long gone.
Having been here 10,000+ years, this stone probably played an important role throughout history, and must have been significant to all who lived here. Even today the old stone lends it's name to the local area, with the whole place now called Boglestone.
There is an unusual stonemasons mark on the Eastern face of the Erratic, nothing is recorded about who made it. There was at one time a plaque with a poem attached to the Bogle Stane, but this is now long gone.
*Getting There ; From Port Glasgow bus or train station it is approx 2km away (45 min walk)
Get the '531' bus to Boglestone from the town centre (The Bogle Stane has it's very own bus stop) at the top the Clune Brae, which is a steep hill 1.4km long.
The bus journey takes 5 minutes.
See here for a Ghost story about the Bogle Stane.
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