<< Our Photo Pages >> Diarmid's Grave - Cairn in Scotland in Argyll
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Diarmid's Grave Alternative Name: Strontoiller; Strontoiller 1Country: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Oban
Map Ref: NM9077828950 Landranger Map Number: 49
Latitude: 56.406306N Longitude: 5.392568W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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hidebasket visited on 19th Feb 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Anne T visited on 17th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Strontoiller (Small Cairn), next to the Clach Na Carraig standing stone: This was perhaps the most amusing encounter of our whole trip, involving a human and two sheep. As we pulled up by the cattle grid at NM 90788 28935, just before some houses set back from the road, I heard a man’s voice repeatedly shouting loudly: “Go away! Get out of here! Get out!” Thinking he might possibly be shouting at us because of where we’d left the car, I hopped across the cattle grid, only to be almost knocked off my feet by two very large lambs hurtling back across the cattle grid into the field. “Oh, I wasn’t shouting at you”, the man said. “Been naughty?” I asked him, pointing back to the sheep. “It’s always the lambs”, he said, closing the gate.
I asked him if it was OK to park where we where to look at the stone circle, and he replied, “It’s OK. Go ahead. It’s over there.” He pointed, rapidly closing the farm gate into his driveway and scuttled back to his house.
The gate into the field was a little further west along the road, at the junction of the road with the driveway to Stontoiller Farmhouse/Cottage. We let ourselves into the field and walked across to where this neat little stone circle lay, the stones almost buried in tall grass and marsh grass at this time of year. We did a ‘round tour’ of the field, starting off by photographing this neat little cairn, then the stone circle, then the larger cairn, and finally coming back to the standing stone and the small cairn.
Note: the Portal’s page for this site is called ‘Diarmid’s Grave’. I’ve not yet come across any reference with this name in. I’d be curious to know more.
SandyG visited on 13th Mar 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.33 Ambience: 3.67 Access: 4.67
A kerb cairn near Strontoiller Farm to the east of Oban. The standing stone of Clach na Carraig stands in the background.
Canmore site no. 23205.
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