<< Our Photo Pages >> Creagantairbh Beag - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Argyll
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Creagantairbh Beag Alternative Name: Glennan north; CreaganterveCountry: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Lochgilphead Nearest Village: Kilmartin
Map Ref: NM85950156 Landranger Map Number: 55
Latitude: 56.158513N Longitude: 5.448452W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | no data |
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Anne T visited on 18th Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Creagantairbh Beag Standing Stone: I hadn’t spotted these on the OS map as we were driving along, but saw the still standing stone through the fence line. Quickly stopping by the side of the road to take a photograph, I noticed there was also a fallen stone. We decided to stop and investigate further on the way back down the road from Ford village.
On way back from Ford, we turnedthe car onto a track signposted to ‘Kilmichael Glen 7’ we were immediately into the same field as the standing stones(s), only on the right side of the fence. Getting closer we realised that the cracks on both sides of the stone matched almost precisely, so the fallen part must have been the top of the stump. This would have been amazingly tall!
In the field of the house opposite were some brown and black alpacas, and I took a photo to remind me.
custer visited on 15th Sep 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Right beside road, single track road quite busy, gate to Alpaca field enough to pull of the road, ambience would be better if climbed over fence and wall into field.
hamish have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 4.5
Creagantairbh Beag NM859015 Map 55. Found off the B840 Loch Awe road about 2 miles from the junction with the A816.On the map it is called Creganterve Beg.
This stump of this stone, with the broken shaft lying prostrate beside it, is recored as Canmore ID 22787 which tells us this stone lies adjacent to the road and must originally have measured 16ft 2 ins high. Canmore tell us that the shaft of the stone was blown down in the Tay Bridge gale of 1879!
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