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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Glebe Cairn Alternative Name: Kilmartin GlebeCountry: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Lochgilphead Nearest Village: Kilmartin
Map Ref: NR8330098930 Landranger Map Number: 55
Latitude: 56.133731N Longitude: 5.488896W
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| 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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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Uralsdaughter visited on 19th Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Anne T visited on 17th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Glebe Cairn, Kilmartin: By the time I’d walked from Nether Largie Stone Alignment, across to Temple Wood and to Nether Largie, South, Mid, North and Glebe Cairn, I realised it was quite a long way (about 2km the sign post said), but I hadn’t really noticed the distance as the sites were so fascinating to see.
From the lane leading from Nether Largie North Cairn, you need to cross a footbridge over Kilmartin Burn at NR 83147 98870. At this time of evening, the dragon flies were flitting over the water and the sheep were starting to gathered in a line along the fence.
Following the grassy footpath towards this huge heap of stones, I walked all the way around this cairn, which seemed much larger than the others. There were no real distinguishing features, such as cists or cist covers, that were visible. The mound seemed disturbed in places, with stones pushed out in small ‘arms’ here and there along its edges.
Rachel Butter’s Kilmartin book (page 58) says: “The Glebe Cairn: Excavators found two small stone circles beneath the cairn with two finely made pots and a jet necklace placed in two cists. The cairn is smaller than it was a century ago – in 1864 it was at least 4 metres high and 33 metres across.”
SandyG visited on 16th Apr 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4
jeffrep visited on 1st Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
SolarMegalith visited on 27th Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
coin visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Catrinm rrmoser have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.33 Ambience: 4.17 Access: 3.83
This prehistoric cairn is recorded as Canmore ID 39537, which contains notes from Greenwell's excavation of 1864, along with a publication account from 1985.
Canmore tells us this is now a massive pile of stones 33.5 metres in diameter and 4 metres high, being the northernmost of the line of cairns on the Kilmartin Glen valley floor.
Canmore adds some observations from Greenwell's notes, saying that in the south west quadrant of the cairn, he found two concentric rings of boulders made of individual stones about 0.9 metres high and 0.6 metres broad. At the centre of these circles was a central cist which contained a vessel and jet necklace. Sadly the necklace was lost in a fire, but the vessel is in the British Museum, London.
Intriguingly, Greenwell also records a central cist which was "a hollow sunk into the surface of the ground, and lined with boulders, having a large slab of schist for its cover." This provides evidence for two different periods of construction.
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