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HISTORY lies thickly layered in Kilmartin Glen. I’m standing at Nether Largie Cairn South, the oldest of the five stone mounds that once comprised a linear cemetery, a complex of burial and ritual monuments that extended the length of this flat-bottomed Argyllshire valley.
The cairn we’ve stopped at dates from approximately 3,000 BC, but harbours a stone kist or coffin installed some 1,000 years later.
The air is loud with birdsong, bluebells are emerging, fern croziers unfurling, and the Kilmartin Burn gurgles through glades of irises. On the other side of the glen, 21st-century traffic hums along the Lochgilphead-Oban road, but peer into one of these kists and you gaze through the millennia to when this valley floor was a sacred place.
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