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<< Our Photo Pages >> Nether Largie Stone Row - Stone Row / Alignment in Scotland in Argyll

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Nether Largie Stone Row
Country: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Lochgilphead  Nearest Village: Kilmartin
Map Ref: NR8283197610  Landranger Map Number: 55
Latitude: 56.121680N  Longitude: 5.495353W
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
4 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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sba_dk visited on 15th Jul 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

Uralsdaughter visited on 19th Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4

Anne T visited on 17th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Nether Largie Stone Alignment: Ever since I read about this alignment in the early text for the Portal's book "The Old Stones" I've wanted to visit this location. It's in a lovely, lovely, setting, in the Kilmartin Glen. Having got used to Northumberland where you largely only see sheep or cattle around monuments, I was so disappointed by the number of people visiting here. We had two attempts, one being late in the evening, but there were still plenty of folks here. The photographers amongst us 'queued up' to take photographs along the alignment; when it was my turn, a family meandered over and spent half an hour wandering up and down the row, oblivious to me standing there with the camera. I did manage a couple of photographs along the alignment, but had to chose my moments when they were behind one of the stones! Congratulations to the Kilmartin Museum for having a great tourist trail, but I'd like to come back in late January/February, when hopefully there would be less visitors. After this visit, we stuck to sites largely off the main tourist trail.

odprich visited on 1st Sep 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

SandyG visited on 15th Apr 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5

SolarMegalith visited on 28th Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5

markj99 visited on 30th Apr 2010 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Nether Largie Stone Row is the most impressive stone row in Scotland. It is a short walk on a footpath from an adjacent car park. A must visit!

jeffrep visited on 3rd Sep 2007 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

coin visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Fantastic alignment.

hidebasket visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4

Catrinm custer NickyD have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.7 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 4.2

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by jeffrep : The Netrher Largie Stones in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll and Bute, Scotland -- five central standing stones, arranged in an "X" shape. The nine foot central stone is accompanied by a number of smaller stones surrounding it. The central stone also has several cup marks. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone Row with Cup and Ring marks in Argyll

Nether Largie stone setting is reached by footpath from Temple Wood (about 5mins) or from the main road by footpath. It is in the middle of what may have been an avenue and has cupmarks.

See the nearby site list for details of the cairns.

Dougie Scott has researched the archaeoastronomy of this site, see more below and full details in his ebook Watchers of the Dawn.

Double Stone Row in Argyll. The Nether Largie stones are situated some 300m to the southeast of the Temple Wood circles. They are in a rectangular or X shape setting which is formed by two pairs of standing stones placed about 35m to the northeast and the southwest of a central stone. Just to the south of the centre stone is a setting of four stones.

The site is reached by footpath from Temple Wood (about 5mins) or from the main road by footpath. It is in the middle of what may have been an avenue and has cupmarks.

In 1973 the stump of a standing stone was found by Gerald Hawkins 260m southwest of the southern circle. After its excavation by Dr Aubrey Burl, and its survey from the cist near the centre of the circle by Jon Patrick, it was then laid flat and reburied. All these stones are aligned to the northwest and southeast. More in Douglas Scott's Watchers of the Dawn ebook.

This site is recorded as Canmore ID 39471, which gives descriptions of each of the stones plus the results of a 1993 geophysical survey and a 2013 excavation.

Note: Dougie Scott reports that one of the five Nether Largie stones has fallen.
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Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by h_fenton : Nether Largie Stone Row in the dark (on a windy night). 9 April 2013 (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by h_fenton : Decorated face of a standing stone in Nether Largie stone row. 9 April 2013 (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by dougie : The above shows how the midsummer major standstill full moon could have set in line with and between these stones over three or four nights. On the first night the moon would have set in line with S3-S1-S4 and Bellanoch Hill. From between S2 and S3 over the next few nights, the moon near its southern monthly maximum would have set between S5 and S4 in slightly different positions. This cou... (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by h_fenton : Nether Largie Standing Stone - has fallen down (or was it pushed?), Historic Scotland have excavated the stone hole and area around the base of the stone. 9 April 2013 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by Bladup : Nether Largie Stone Row. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by SandyG : View from north. (15th April 2015).

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Two orthostats at the southern end. (15th April 2015).

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by Bladup : The middle stone of the Nether Largie Stone Row.

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by crannog : Cup & ring marks on 'central' stone.... the is also an internment that has been left in peace. (this stone 'vibrates' energy!

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by caradoc68 : NR 828 976 Nether largie stone. Standing stone in the middle of the row with its very own cup and bowl markings and a stone circle at its feet, you don't get stones like this in the south west.

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by AngieLake : The southern pair of stones at the setting known as Nether Largie stones in Kilmartin Glen. (1 comment)

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by andy_h : Netherlargie Stones alignment, Kilmartin Valley, Argyll.

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by Anne T : A view along the alignment, from SW to NE.

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by SandyG : View along the row from the north east. (15th April 2015). (2 comments)

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Looking north east along the row. Stone setting in the foreground. (15th April 2015).

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by SandyG : View from south east. (15th April 2015).

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by SandyG : View along the row from the north east. (15th April 2015).

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Decorated stone. (15th April 2015). (2 comments)

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by coin : Stones!

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by Bladup : Two stones of Nether Largie Stone Row.

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by Bladup : Two stones of the Nether Largie Stone Row.

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by SolarMegalith : SW face of this standing stone is decorated with cup-marks and cup-and-ring marks (photo taken on April 2013).

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by SolarMegalith : Northern stone pair - the stones are 2.85 and 2.70m high. The decorated standing stone is visible i nthe background (photo taken on April 2013).

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by h_fenton : Nether Largie Standing Stone - has fallen down (or was it pushed?), Historic Scotland have excavated the stone hole and area around the base of the stone. 9 April 2013

Nether Largie Stone Row
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by h_fenton

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3D model of Nether Largie, Central Standing Stone by Andy B on Monday, 05 October 2020
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At the southern end of the heritage trail from Kilmartin House Museum is the Nether Largie standing stone linear structure. In the centre of this monument is a single standing stone, surrounded by 4 smaller stones. The standing stone is carved with numerous motifs including cup-marks, cup-and-ring marks, as well as various grooves and dumbells.

For more information see: http://www.rockart.scot/my-scrap/?scrapToolsaction=datatools%3Apanel&id=515BA9EE-8420-42F1-8B524893D830D385

Model by Maya Hoole

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/nether-largie-central-standing-stone-408bba8b27764df488e4772953f5ffcb




Nether Largie, Central Standing Stone
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Re: Nether Largie by Micks on Wednesday, 06 February 2013
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Oh no! maybe I should come up and try to fix it, its my favourite monument, I know it as `the big X`.
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The northern outlier of the five Nether Largie stones has fallen by Andy B on Tuesday, 05 February 2013
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Dougie Scott writes:
I was at Kilmartin the other day and found that the northern outlier of the five Nether Largie stones had fallen. I've reported this to Historic Scotland and they said they know about it, hopefully they will take some action soon.
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Re: Nether Largie by coldrum on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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