Contributory members are able to log private notes and comments about each site
Sites MarkJ99 has logged. View this log as a table or view the most recent logs from everyone
Borve Standing Stones
Date Added: 28th May 2021
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Barra and Vatersay)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Borve Standing Stones submitted by Tom_Bullock on 27th Feb 2005. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Borve Standing Stones are close to a beach track at the small community of Borve. Dun Bharpa is accessed via Borve, a worthwhile detour up to a large almost intact cairn.
Brevig
Date Added: 2nd Jun 2021
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Barra and Vatersay)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Brevig submitted by Tom_Bullock on 17th Jun 2004. Brevig, Barra
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Brevig includes a handsome standing stone and a nearby broken recumbent stone. It is sited on the slopes above Brevig close to a derelict building. Look out for a cup mark at c. 3ft on the E face of the standing stone.
Achnabreck
Date Added: 4th Apr 2021
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jan 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Achnabreck 1 submitted by rockartuk on 29th Oct 2002. Achnabreck, Strathclyde NR 8556 9070
Located 2.5 km NW of Lochgilphead, with signposted public access
A cup-and-ring motif catched in the low afternoon sun
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: There are some sites which are overwhelming. There is too much to see on just one visit. The wealth of rock art on display at Achnabreck almost requires a revisit to appreciate how special it is.
Ballymeanoch Stone Row
Date Added: 8th May 2021
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Ballymeanoch Stone Row submitted by ainsloch on 3rd Apr 2015. Stone Roses
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Antiquarians are spoiled for choice in Kilmartin. Ballymeanoch complex is a worthwhile visit consisting of a kerb cairn, stone row, a stone pair and a henge. It requires some time and exploration to make sense of the complex. The concentration of sites in a small area implies that Ballymeanoch was important to the ancient people.
Ballymeanoch Kerb Cairn
Date Added: 8th May 2021
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Ballymeanoch Kerb Cairn submitted by caradoc68 on 11th Dec 2011. NR 83395 96429, Kerb cairn, Ballymean. Kilmartin Glen is a very interesting area in Argyll rich in Archaeology. This Kerb cairn in know exception, being on private land the farmer has kindly fenced it off with pubic access to severely Neolithic/Bronze age features in this field.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Antiquarians are spoiled for choice in Kilmartin. Ballymeanoch complex is a worthwhile visit consisting of a kerb cairn, stone row, a stone pair and a henge. It requires some time and exploration to make sense of the complex. The concentration of sites in a small area implies that Ballymeanoch was important to the ancient people.
Baluachraig Rock Art
Date Added: 12th May 2021
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Baluachraig Rock Art submitted by caradoc68 on 18th Mar 2012. Kilmartin does it again !!!!!!!!!!
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Even in Kilmartin Glen where one is spoiled for choice Baluachcraig Cup and Ring Marked panels are worth a visit. Easy parking plus a short walk to an ancient site rich in Rock Art: It's a no brainer!
Salachary
Date Added: 14th May 2021
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Salachary submitted by Tom_Bullock on 28th Feb 2005. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Salachary Stone Row is c. 3 miles N of Kilmartin in open moorland. The three stone row consists of a standing stone, a leaning stone and an embedded recumbent stone on a N-S Axis measuring c. 15 feet.
Travel c. 5 miles N to a lay-by at an abandoned quarry on the L at NM 8420 0450. Walk W along the road for c. 150 yards to a grass track on the L. Follow this track S for c. 0.5 mile. It ends at NM 83981 04031. Salachary Stone Row is c. 80 yards E of this point.
The remote location of this stone row amplifies the ambience of the site making it an enjoyable experience.
Temple Wood S
Date Added: 23rd Mar 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Temple Wood S submitted by SandyG on 16th Jul 2015. View from north west. (15th April 2015).
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Kilmartin Glen has many sites to visit. The Templewood Stone Circles are easy to access and reasonably well preserved.
Temple Wood S
Date Added: 23rd Mar 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Temple Wood S submitted by SandyG on 16th Jul 2015. View from north west. (15th April 2015).
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Kilmartin Glen has many sites to visit. The Templewood Stone Circles are easy to access and reasonably well preserved.
Temple Wood N
Date Added: 23rd Mar 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Temple Wood N submitted by hamish on 6th Aug 2005. Temple Wood North. I love this place,enigmatic as always.Being among the trees makes it so different.It's beautiful.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Kilmartin Glen has many sites to visit. The Templewood Stone Circles are easy to access and reasonably well preserved.
Nether Largie standing stone
Date Added: 23rd Mar 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Nether Largie standing stone submitted by caradoc68 on 18th Aug 2012. This standing stone is in the middle of a field, a short distance of the footpath. The farmer does not like you being there and might put a angry looking bull in the field to put visitors off. Cant find a lot written about this stone or why it seems to be leaning at 45 degrees and pointing to the southeast.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Nether Largie standing stone is one of the minor sites to visit in Kilmartin Glen. However, it is only a short detour from Nether Largie Stone Row.
Nether Largie Stone Row
Date Added: 23rd Mar 2023
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by jeffrep on 7th Feb 2013. The Netrher Largie Stones in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll and Bute, Scotland -- five central standing stones, arranged in an "X" shape. The nine foot central stone is accompanied by a number of smaller stones surrounding it. The central stone also has several cup marks.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Nether Largie Stone Row is the most impressive stone row in Scotland. It is a short walk on a footpath from an adjacent car park. A must visit!
Nether Largie South
Date Added: 23rd Mar 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Nether Largie South submitted by Fairycake on 26th Sep 2020. Looking towards the cairn from the south with the large cist in the foreground. This is by far the biggest cist I have seen. There are several inserted into earlier monuments near to here, apart from this, showing these sites continued to have significance over a long period of time.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: The central chamber of Nether Largie South Cairn is the most impressive aspect of this monument.
Nether Largie Mid
Date Added: 23rd Mar 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Nether Largie Mid submitted by jeffrep on 15th Mar 2008. View from the North of Nether Largie Mid Cairn in Kilmartin Glen.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Nether Largie Mid Cairn is the least impressive of the group. It has been extensively robbed leaving a cist and large capstone exposed in the S Arc of the cairn.
Nether Largie North
Date Added: 23rd Mar 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Nether Largie North submitted by jeffrep on 15th Mar 2008. Nether Largie Cairn North, Kilmartin Glen.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Nether Largie North Cairn looks to be intact from a distance. Reality bites when the metal hatch on the summit comes into view. The central chamber and cist have been over restored.
Ri Cruin
Date Added: 24th Mar 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ri Cruin submitted by caradoc68 on 23rd Feb 2012. This lovely cairn dates from the Bronze Age and is pretty new when it comes to the Kilmartin landscape. Hidden away in some trees just of the beaten track with its two kist's, this Cairn has a lot to offer with its large Kist's and its rock art of axeheads and possibly a caving of a boat in one of these kists !!.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Ri Cruin Cruin is notable for two large exposed cists on the N & S Arcs of the cairn. I wasn't aware of the difficult to spot axehead carvings in the S cist at the time of my visit.
Poltalloch House Rock Art
Date Added: 24th Mar 2023
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Poltalloch House Rock Art submitted by rockartuk on 3rd Nov 2002. Poltalloch, Strathclyde. Scotland
Grid Ref: NR 8126 9637.
Located 3.5 km SW of Kilmartin, 200m SW of ruined Poltalloch House on private land.
Detail of a cup-and-ring motif with gapped rings.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: The cup and ring markings were partially obscured by moss on my visit.
Barsloisnoch
Date Added: 24th Mar 2023
Site Type: Cist
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Barsloisnoch submitted by caradoc68 on 30th Apr 2012. There are two kists here within 20-50 feet of each other but can be easily missed.
Canmore site page.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Barsloisnoch cists are only to be found by those looking for them. They lie in marshy pasture land adjacent to Barsloisloch Farm. Barsloisnoch SE cist has an impressive capstone, well worth a small detour while visiting the Kilmartin sites.
Kilchoan
Date Added: 24th Mar 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Kilchoan submitted by mickm on 14th Apr 2005. Detail of the top of the chamber looking towards the entrance at the NE showing the displaced capstone over a lintel covering the central compartment. The side slabs of the front compartment are visible beyond.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Kilchoan Chambered Cairn is located c. 150 yards NW of Kilchoan Lodge. On my visit there was a herd of bullock around the cairn, churning the grass to mud. The jumble of large stones become a large passage and chamber with time and imagination. The site is off the beaten track but more than rewards the expenditure of energy.
Carn Ban (Lochgilphead)
Date Added: 24th May 2025
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Carn Ban (Arran) submitted by zep on 1st Jun 2007. Panorama of Carn Ban
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Carn Ban (Lochgilphead) is a grassy mound on the S bank of the Crinan Canal on the E end of Cairnbaan. It is accessed via a forest track into Knapdale Forest which starts c. 75 yards W of the swing bridge in Cairnbaan. The cairn is unspectacular save for a large moss covered capstone on an exposed cist.