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Rock ArtSite Name: Kilmichael Glassary 1Country: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Lochgilphead Nearest Village: Kilmartin
Map Ref: NR8579793496 Landranger Map Number: 55
Latitude: 56.086125N Longitude: 5.444434W
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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Catrinm visited on 1st Sep 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Access: 5 Easily accessible behind railings
Catrinm visited on 1st Sep 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Anne T visited on 18th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Kilmichael Glassary 1, Rock Art: This was a real treat. From the small car park by the play park opposite the kirk, we followed the road up the slight hill, past the houses. The rocks are railed off, but to my surprise, walking to the top of the railings, there is a step to allow you to climb in to the compound.
The markings were really clear in the strong sunlight. There must have been rain here recently, as some of the deeper bowls contained pools of water.
There was also another smaller rock behind the ‘compound’ for the main rock, which someone had recently de-turfed the edges of. There were fewer markings on this, with plenty more of the outcrop under turf, so we wondered what else might lie under the grass covering.
We used the interpretation board to help us pick out key motifs, such as the oval cup and the keyhole motifs.
A young couple came and looked at the stone, and we were really respectful of each other taking photographs, which was nice. We would come across this young couple again at another couple of rock art sites and at Dunnad fort
SandyG visited on 16th Mar 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4
Bobeds visited on 15th Sep 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
SolarMegalith visited on 29th Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5
custer visited on 13th Oct 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 4 Nice stone slab fenced off. Deep cup marks with encompassing rings .
Bobeds visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
snakefarmer rrmoser coin hamish have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.63 Ambience: 3.57 Access: 4.25
What a great sight this is on the edge of a housing estate. For all the modernity around it is still enthralling to be here, with so much rock art to see. Try counting the cups and rings.Text by Hamish (NB: not the same person as Hamish Fenton)
This sheet of rock art is recorded as Canmore ID 3951 and tells us the outcrop is "sculptured with over 80 cups, and 15 cups-and-one-ring, and keyhole figures. It is (partially) enclosed by a fence. Twelve feet W of the SW corner of this fence, a rock area 9' x 2' bears six cups, some in groups, and one cup-and-ring. Other outcrops in the vicinity have cup marks."
In 1985, Canmore record that an extension of the rock sheet was exposed, revealing a further forty-seven cups and five cups with rings. Also see Canmore ID 39549 which describes another outcrop 60 metres north-north-east of this stone, containing another 'collection of rock art' at NR 8580 9356 (See Kilmartin Glassary 2 in the nearby sites list below); and Canmore ID 76399 which descrbies another outcrop 15 metres east of the latter rock.
Note: Hamish Fenton has submitted sixteen amazing new 3D models he has created. These are of various subjects, from large brochs to standing stones, to detailed scans of rock art panels. Scroll down the page to see them, and follow the instructions to rotate and zoom them.
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