Druids' Seat Wood

The Ordnance Survey Name Book (Perthshire Vol.74, p.13) describes this site as 'a circle of 10 large boulder stones one of which is considerably larger than the rest and stands upright. The local tradition is that it is a Druidical Temple.'

Information from HES Survey and Recording (JRS) 22 January 2021

A complete stone circle in the heart of a wood. One stone in it is a block of conglomerate distinctly squared. There are ten stones one of which is considerably larger than the rest and stands upright.

G C Baxter 1892.

A circle of 9 stones, about 30ft diameter, much disturbed and heavily overgrown.

M E C Stewart 1965.

A stone circle consisting of nine stones (there is a tenth stone in the NW arc but it appears to be off line). The largest stone is erect and measures 1.3m high x 1.4m x 0.6m. At least four of the stones are recumbent. The site has been cleared of undergrowth.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (EGC) 5 March 1969.

This well-preserved stone circle is situated in a clearing within a conifer plantation, some 370m NE of Blindwells steading. It comprises nine stones set on an internal diameter of about 7.8m, but only five still remain upright. The largest (no. 1) is situated on the SW, but it is flanked by two comparatively small stones, and short and small stones appear to have been alternated around the rest of the ring. The stones are described clockwise starting with the tallest of the erect stones on the SW.

Stone 1 (SW) measures 1.4m by up to 0.7m and 1.2m in height.

Stone 2 (WSW) measures 0.7m by 0.5m and 0.8m in height.

Stone 3 (W) is a large fallen slab which measures 1.45m by 1.25m and at least 0.4m in thickness.

Stone 4 (NW) leans inwards and measures 0.9m by 0.6m and 0.65m in height.

Stone 5 (N) measures 0.9m by 0.5m and 0.6m in height; it may be the stump of a once-taller stone.

Stone 6 (NE) is a fallen kite-shaped boulder, measuring 1.45m by up to 1.1m and at least 0.4m in thickness.

Stone 7 (E) measures 1m by 0.75m and at least 0.35m in thickness; it has been dragged about 1.5m ENE of its original position and its stone-hole is clearly visible in the turf.

Stone 8 (SE) has fallen outwards and measures 1.75m by 1.1m and at least 0.6m in thickness.

Stone 9 (S) measures 0.95m by 0.55m and 0.6m in height.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 6 April 1989.

RCAHMS surveyed the stone circle at Druid’s Seat Wood (NO13SW 20) with plane-table and alidade on 19 April 1989 at a scale of 1:125. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:250 as part of a ‘Comparative plans of stone circles in South-east Perth’ illustration (RCAHMS 1994b, 32).