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MuseumsSite Name: Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery Alternative Name: Kelvin Hall
Country: Scotland County: North Lanarkshire Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Glasgow
Map Ref: NS5676166302  Landranger Map Number: 64
Latitude: 55.868536N  Longitude: 4.290648W
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AstroGeologist visited on 3rd Jul 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Kelvingrove : An interesting collection of Neolithic & Bronze Age Artefacts. Of particular interest are the : °OAK LOG BOAT ; Found at the Loch Glashan Crannog (1960) °4m OAK LADDER ; Found at the Dumbuck Crannog (1898) °CARVED CIST COVER ; Found in Argyll °CUP & RING MARKED ROCKS ; Found in Bluebell Wood, Langside °NEOLITHIC PETROSPHERES ; Found in Aberdeenshire °CINERARY URNS ; Found in Knocken Hill, Lesmahagow °NEOLITHIC AXEHEADS ; Found in various places °BRONZE AGE WEAPONRY ; Found in various places *Getting There ; Just over a 5 minute walk from Kelvinhall Subway station. Come out the station and turn left, walk along Dumbarton Road passing an entrance to the Hunterian Museum on your left after 330m, the road name changes to Argyle Street here. Keep walking along Argyle Street over the River Kelvin and the front entrance to the Kelvingrove Museum is about another 330m walk.

Anne T visited on 29th Oct 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow: After Glasgow Cathedral and the Govan Stones, I found the exhibition of Scotland's Early People a little small and disappointing, but what they had on display was interesting. Best items on display for me were the beaker found when they excavated Temple Wood in Kilmartin and a wooden ladder from a crannog. And of course the rock art stone Andy B was photographed with!

Andy B have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 3 Access: 5

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. Museum ID A.1995.32.r. Scotland's Early People display. Of darkish grey-brown stone, the six discs have a polished appearance. Found in Aberdeenshire (museum collection records give no further details). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museums in Lanarkshire, prehistory collection including the Glas Ghu cupmarked stone, carved stone balls and much much more.

Address: Kelvingrove, G3 8AG
Phone: 0141 287 2699
Opening Hours: Mon - Thurs 10am - 5pm, Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am - 5pm
Admission:Free
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Kelvin Hall has tours of the Glasgow Museums' and the Hunterian's stores and is situated opposite Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (address above). Both are around 25 minutes walk from Glasgow city centre along Sauchiehall Street.

Note: Twilight Tour: Neolithic Carved Stone Balls, 7th September at Kelvin Hall, which is opposite the main museum and art gallery, more on our page
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Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. This cast of one of the hogbacks from Govan Old Parish Church is also on display in Scotland's Early People. It is a cast of Govan 11 (more details to follow on the Govan Stones page shortly). The original is dated to the 10th century. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire. This cist cover can also be found in the Scotland's Early People display under subdued light. Museum ID A.1960.45. Described as "Greenish-grey schistose stone. Two vertical grooves at either end, to fit end slabs, do not respect the carvings. The lower edge is carved to fit a bottom slab. The other face has a possible cup-mark pecked into it. Plough damage is evident in ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : Andy B and Ruth (behind the camera) met up with John Balding (Doublediapasonsixteenfeet) who showed us around Glasgow, including a quick look in the (higghly recommended) Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. This is a rather blurry picture even using a pole to steady the camera. (very low lighting in this section of the Early Scotland's people). A carved lintel stone of sandstone with knotwork, a cruciform arm and a serpent-like animal with large eye and upturned snout. Also recorded as Canmore 319871. Museum ID 1.1932. Found at Millport, Great Cumbrae Island, North... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. Also in the Scotland's Early People display is this 4,000mm high oak ladder, found when excavating a crannog at Dumbuck in the Clyde Estuary. It is dated to the Iron Age, around AD 5 to 55. Formed of a single oak plank. Museum ID 1898.217.b. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. This Viking/Early Christian dug out canoe was found in the mud of Loch Gashan. Recorded as Canmore 40049, it was one of two found in the loch. It can be found in the Scotland's First People display.

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. Seen from a different side, this cup and ring marked rock can be found in the Scotland's Early People display, Museum ID 1902.78. It was found in Bluebell Wood, Langside, Glasgow and is also recorded as Canmore 44291.

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. This cup and ring marked rock can be found in the Scotland's Early People display, Museum ID 1902.78. It was found in Bluebell Wood, Langside, Glasgow and is also recorded as Canmore 44291.

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. This partly recreated jet and lignite necklace is shown in the Scotland's Early People display. The information sign reads: “This necklace was not symmetrical. One end plate held three strings of beads, and the other held four. This was probably because the necklace was made of old and new beads, and might have been an heirloom.” Museum ID A.1992.5.[1]

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. Couldn't find these in the Museum's on-line collections records, but the information sign reads (left to right): Mace head. 3000-2000BC. Isle of Skye; Jadeite Axhead. 3800-3000 BCE. Dumbreck Estate, Strathblane, Stirlingshire; and Flint Axe. 3000-2000 BCE. Knappers, Bilbowe.

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. Found in Turrif Parish, Aberdeenshire, this carved ball dates from the middle to late Neolithic. Museum ID A.1955.96.so. It is a ball of black micaeous stone with six large hemispherical knobs carved into it. To be found in the Scotland's First People display.

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. This carved ball is dated to the middle to late Neolithic. Museum ID A.1955.96.sq. Donated to the museum in 1955. To be found in the Scotland's First People display.

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland. Three arrow heads and a scraper (right) found alongside the beaker in the central burial cist of the cairn to the north east of the SW stone circle. Museum ID nos. A.1993.5 a to d. Dated to the early Bronze Age. Scotland's Early People.

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Anne T : This is the reconstructed long-necked beaker found when the Temple Wood stone circles were excavated. Donation by Treasure Trove in 1993. Museum ID A.1993.5.a.

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : The stone axe heads in the prehistory gallery

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : Carved stone balls on display in the prehistory gallery

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : The stone balls and axe heads in the prehistory gallery

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Andy B : John Balding (Doublediapasonsixteenfeet) examines the rock art and other exhibits in the prehistory gallery

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Creative Commons : Kelvingrove Art Gallery Copyright Elliott Simpson and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Creative Commons : Kelvingrove Art Gallery And Museum Taken from Kelvingrove Park. Copyright Paul McIlroy and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland

Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery submitted by Creative Commons : Spitfire in Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery Copyright Dannie Calder and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. Site in North Lanarkshire Scotland

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Twilight Tour: Neolithic Carved Stone Balls, 7th September 2022 by Andy B on Thursday, 25 August 2022
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Glasgow Life Museums, Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AW
7th September 2022 @ 5:15pm

This Scottish Archaeology Month, join Jane Flint, Glasgow Museums’ Curator of Prehistoric Archaeology, to view a selection of 5,000-year-old Neolithic Carved Stone Balls. Find out about what these intriguing objects may have meant to people in the past and how they came to be in our collections.

Please note that this is an event aimed at adults. It is free but ticketed.
Booking via Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twilight-tour-neolithic-carved-stones-tickets-360502020247

Website Address: https://kelvinhall.org.uk

More at: https://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/event/twilight-tour-neolithic-carved-stone-balls/
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Re: Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum by Anonymous on Tuesday, 17 June 2003
Erm, the Kelvingrove is IN Glasgow. And definitely not in Lanarkshire!

(It's also closing on 31.6.03 until February 2006 for a major refurbishment).

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    Re: Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum by Andy B on Thursday, 25 August 2022
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    Hello, we don't have a 'county' for Glasgow city so Lanarkshire will have to do as the next nearest - sorry!
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