Featured: Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2019!

Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2019!

Temples of Stone: Exploring the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland

Temples of Stone: Exploring the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland

Who's Online

There are currently, 307 guests and 0 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Our Photo Pages >> Glennan Standing Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Argyll

Submitted by Anonymous on Friday, 29 August 2003  Page Views: 8080

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Glennan Standing Stone
Country: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Lochgilphead  Nearest Village: Kilmartin
Map Ref: NM85730112  Landranger Map Number: 55
Latitude: 56.154468N  Longitude: 5.451633W
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.
no data 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

Internal Links:
External Links:

I have visited· I would like to visit

Anne T visited on 18th Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Glennan Standing Stones and Cairns: What could top Kintraw Standing Stones & Cairns? But we found places that almost did. Carrying on down the A816 towards Kilmartin, we turned east on the road towards the small village of Ford, travelling along a very beautiful valley. We stopped at Old Glennan farmhouse (pulled into the gateway to the track up to the house, which looked as if it hadn’t been used in ages, and was in sight of the stone). Letting ourselves in through the gate, we followed the track up, with the line of an old stone wall, now only ankle height, up to where it turned a corner, just to the north of the house. The stone appeared to be incorporated into a taller part of the wall. Walking back to the car, I spotted what looked like a cairn with a slight ditch around it. Andrew looked up the Canmore reference on his phone and determined there were two cairns near the gate, one much reduced. According to Canmore there is a cup marked stone on one, although both cairns were well grassed over at the time of our visit.

custer visited on 15th Sep 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4

nicoladidsbury have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 4 Access: 4

Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by cosmic : Glennan Standing Stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stone in Argyll

This standing stone is recorded as Canmore ID 22786 which tells us this 2.2 metre high stone is built into a ruined wall forming one of the enclosures around the disused Glennan farmstead, "about 470m SSW of Creagantairbh Beag farmstead."
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by malolo : Glennan Standing Stone (Vote or comment on this photo)

Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by crannog : Can be partially viewed from the road. However, to have a closer look take care as there are bullocks in this field. (4 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by Anne T : Standing on the ruined stone wall looking NNE across the stone along the line of the B840 towards Ford. This really is a beautiful location. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by Anne T : At the corner of the track, where it turns to go towards the farmhouse, this was my first proper sight of the Glennan Standing Stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by Anne T : Getting closer to the Glennan Standing Stone, following the ruined wall round a corner towards the farmhouse. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by Anne T : Looking across the broad face of the stone which is nearest to the footpath. It's width is just over 1m (Canmore says 1.2m).

Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by Anne T : The Glennan Standing Stone, on top of an old stone wall which Canmore says forms one of the enclosures around the farmstead. It is aligned NNE - SSW. This view looks WNW across the B840 to the hills beyond.

Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by Bladup : Glennan Standing Stone.

Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by malolo : Glennan Standing Stone

Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by custer : Big new house built at bottom of dip didn't feel comfortable going any closer.

Glennan Standing Stone
Glennan Standing Stone submitted by nicoladidsbury : The Glennan standing stone rises to a height of 2.2 meters and stands in the remains of a ruined wall. This view looks south to the ruined Glennan Farmsted.

Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.
Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive OS map

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.

Megalithic Mysteries by Andy Burnham

Kilmartin House Trust by Kilmartin House
STILE by Clive Ruggles
STILE by Clive Ruggles


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 72m SW 233° Creagantairbh Beag Cairns* Cairn (NM85670108)
 131m WSW 258° Glennan Cairn* Cairn (NM856011)
 491m NNE 24° Creagantairbh Beag* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NM85950156)
 1.3km NNW 347° Creag A Chapuill* Stone Fort or Dun (NM855024)
 1.3km W 273° Carnasserie Farm* Rock Art (NM84390125)
 1.7km W 280° Carn Ban (Carnasserie)* Cairn (NM8411101503)
 1.7km NNE 32° Loch Ederline* Crannog (NM867025)
 1.9km W 259° Carnasserie Rock Art* Rock Art (NM8389100856)
 1.9km NNW 331° Dun Na Nighinn Stone Fort or Dun (NM84910282)
 1.9km WSW 249° Carnasserie, Kist* Cist (NM83910051)
 2.3km W 259° Carnasserie Stones* Standing Stones (NM8345400796)
 2.4km WSW 256° Carnasserie Cairn* Cairn (NM8338900679)
 2.4km NNE 20° Ford Stone (Kilmartin)* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NM8668103317)
 2.5km N 351° Dun Chonallaich* Stone Fort or Dun (NM85440365)
 2.7km NNE 23° Ford Cist* Cist (NM86890356)
 2.8km S 177° Upper Rhudil Chambered Tomb (NR85739831)
 3.2km SW 232° Upper Largie Burial Chamber or Dolmen (NR831993)
 3.2km SW 223° Kilmartin House* Museum (NR8343298890)
 3.2km SW 222° Kilmartin Churchyard* Sculptured Stone (NR8345998859)
 3.2km SW 222° Kilmartin Churchyard (Poltalloch Enclosure)* Sculptured Stone (NR8346798842)
 3.2km SW 222° Kilmartin Churchyard (Lapidarium)* Sculptured Stone (NR8344898839)
 3.2km WSW 252° Dun Mac Samhainn Cairn (NM826003)
 3.3km SE 145° Loch Leathan* Crannog (NR8745498356)
 3.3km SW 225° Glebe Cairn* Cairn (NR8330098930)
 3.3km NNW 327° Salachary* Stone Row / Alignment (NM8405604024)
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Benderloch Stone Circle

Ashey Down Cemetery >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Kilmartin Sounds of Ancient Scotland Ancient Music CD

Kilmartin Sounds of Ancient Scotland Ancient Music CD

Web Links for Glennan Standing Stone

Megalithic Mysteries by Andy Burnham

Archived Web links for Glennan Standing Stone

Kilmartin House Trust by Kilmartin House
STILE by Clive Ruggles
STILE by Clive Ruggles

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Glennan Standing Stone" | Login/Create an Account | 1 comment
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Re: Glennan by coldrum on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
(User Info | Send a Message)
Street View


View Larger Map
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.