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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bandirran - Stone Circle in Scotland in Perth and Kinross

Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 05 November 2002  Page Views: 19632

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bandirran Alternative Name: Woodburn Cottage
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.7 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Perth and Kinross Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Coupar Angus  Nearest Village: Collace
Map Ref: NO20913099  Landranger Map Number: 53
Latitude: 56.464385N  Longitude: 3.285161W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Bandirran submitted by Nick : The main western circle looking west (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone Circles. one with two outlying stones in Perthshire, one of which has fallen.

There are two circles here - Eastern Bandirran and Western Bandirran.

Update February 2018: There are two Canmore entries for Bandirran:
For the stone circle see: Canmore ID 30679 and
For the standing stones see: Canmore ID 30672.
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Bandirran submitted by Nick : The main stone of the eastern (possible) circle (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bandirran submitted by rogerkread : The two outliers with Dunsinane behind. (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bandirran submitted by hamish : Western Bandirran. The 2 main standing stones, I think there must have been a storm. Some of the trees were leaning. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bandirran submitted by hamish : Western Bandirran. A good view of the circle, 2 standing and 5 I think fallen. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bandirran submitted by hamish : This is one of the main stones of the Western Bandirran circle. Great place, best when the grass has died back a bit. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bandirran submitted by hamish : This is the largest of the three stones, large but not easy to find.

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Bandirran submitted by cosmic : East standing stones.

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Bandirran submitted by Nick : Western Bandirran Circle, Perthshire

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Bandirran submitted by Nick : The main stones of the western (main) circle

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Bandirran submitted by Bladup : Bandirran, the western circle.

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Bandirran submitted by Bladup

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Bandirran submitted by Bladup

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Bandirran submitted by hamish : Western Bandirran. A view through the saplings which are all over this site. Some wind damage when I was here.

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Bandirran submitted by cosmic : The big standing one dappled in sunlight. (3 comments)

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Bandirran submitted by cosmic : Standing Stones from West.

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Bandirran submitted by Nick : The eastern outliers - or eastern circle looking east

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Bandirran submitted by rogerkread : The two outliers.

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Bandirran submitted by rogerkread : This photograph shows that the curving bank is in fact a low stone wall.

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Bandirran submitted by rogerkread : The curving low wall around the circle can be clearly seen here - mature trees are growing from the top of the wall in such a manner that they would seem to have been planted there on purpose.

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Bandirran submitted by rogerkread : The circle from a different angle.

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Bandirran submitted by rogerkread : The circle, standing in attractive open woodland.

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Bandirran submitted by Bladup : Bandirran, Eastern circle.

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Bandirran submitted by hamish : This is the fallen or recument stone of the Eastern Bandirran stones.

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Bandirran submitted by hamish : The smaller of the three Eastern Bandirran stones.

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Re: Bandirran by Andy B on Tuesday, 01 November 2022
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Bandirran House: Was this the most haunted house in Perthshire?

Tales of the stone circle and standing stone here:

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-times/3833761/bandirran-house-haunted-house-in-perth/
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Re: Bandirran by peigimccann on Sunday, 21 March 2021
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Both circles were visited on 20 March 2021 by John Lamont who took 30 more photos of the site.
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Re: Bandirran by rogerkread on Monday, 08 May 2017
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I found the site very interesting, but agree with golux that reference to two circles is unnecessarily confusing. There is a clear circle close to the western boundary of the wood, surrounded by a stone walled bank, easily accessed through a small gate from the road (rather than a stile). Close to the eastern edge of the wood are two (not three, as far as I could see) large stones, accessible from the road over a low unbarbed wire fence. Hopefully my photographs will have made things clearer for others.
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Re: Bandirran by Anonymous on Sunday, 19 July 2015
so wonderful to see pictures of stone circles, and of comrie, where my ancestors came from in 1825 to Keene, Ontario, Canada. thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Re: Bandirran by golux on Sunday, 27 June 2010
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The above posts about there being two Bandirran circles ("Western" and "Eastern") are rather confusing. According to the OS map there is one circle (ruined) plus a single standing stone outlier due east of the circle. According to my personal observations in 2010 this is correct.

As the "Eastern Bandirran" photos by Nick show, the outlier stands close to a recumbent stone and together they may have made a pair of outliers to the circle. The photos by Hamish claim to show a third upright stone on the eastern site but there is no trace of this within 100 yards of the large standing outlier. I suspect that Hamish's photo of the "third stone" is in fact a photo of the east face (the opposite side from the recumbent stone) of the large outlier.

Has anybody got any information to suggest there is or was a third stone?
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Re: Bandirran by golux on Sunday, 27 June 2010
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Condition: 2
Ambience: 4
Access: 4
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Re: Bandirran by nicoladidsbury on Saturday, 30 April 2005
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These are very impressive stones, and yet I have never heard of this site!
Is the wood a modern confierous plantaion?
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