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Kilmichael Glassary 1
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Kilmichael Glassary 1 submitted by hamish on 31st Jul 2005. 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 so much to see. Try counting them.
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Kilmichael Glassary 2
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Kilmichael Glassary 2 submitted by SolarMegalith on 30th Apr 2013. Cup with five rings on Kilmichael Glassary 2 panel (photo taken on April 2013).
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Carnasserie Rock Art
Date Added: 4th May 2013
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carnasserie Rock Art submitted by SolarMegalith on 4th May 2013. Cup-marked boulder near Carnasserie Castle (photo taken on April 2013).
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Nether Largie Lost Cairn
Date Added: 6th May 2013
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Nether Largie Lost Cairn submitted by SolarMegalith on 6th May 2013. View from Nether Largie Middle cairn towards the area where the lost cairn was located (photo taken on April 2013).
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Carnasserie Cairn
Date Added: 6th May 2013
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carnasserie Cairn submitted by SolarMegalith on 6th May 2013. Spread remains of Carnasserie Cairn - view from the SW (photo taken on April 2013).
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Carn Ban (Carnasserie)
Date Added: 8th May 2013
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 29th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 4
Carn Ban (Carnasserie) submitted by SolarMegalith on 8th May 2013. Carn Ban seen from Carnasserie Castle (photo taken on April 2013).
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Dunamuck Cairn
Date Added: 23rd May 2013
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dunamuck Cairn submitted by SolarMegalith on 29th May 2013. Probable remains of a chamber (photo taken on April 2013).
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Dunamuck North
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dunamuck North submitted by Creative Commons on 7th Feb 2012. Only the northerly stone still stands (August 2011).
The May 1983 entry in the "Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland" reports that only the middle stone had fallen by then.
Copyright Bob Embleton and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Dunamuck South
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dunamuck South submitted by Creative Commons on 7th Feb 2012. The two stones are only around 0.35m thick and appear to line up with the hill on which the dun of Dunadd was later built.
Copyright Bob Embleton and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Dunadd Fort
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Dunadd Fort submitted by andy_h on 6th Mar 2003. Footstone at Dunadd Fort, Kilmartin Valley, Argyll.
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Dun Mor, Dunamuck
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Dun Mor, Dunamuck submitted by Creative Commons on 7th Feb 2012. Dun Mor. A dun is a stone fort, and this area has many, most often found on the summit of small knolls like this one.
Copyright Patrick Mackie and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
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Ballymeanoch Stone Row
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ballymeanoch Stone Row submitted by jeffrep on 15th Mar 2008. The Four-Stone Row at Ballymeanoch in Kilmartin Glen
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Ballymeanoch Henge
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Henge
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ballymeanoch Henge submitted by caradoc68 on 11th Dec 2011. NR 8331 9628, Ballymeanoch Henge. Very interesting site hidden away in the corner of the field it is worth looking at in detail as you have two possibly three kists, in the middle of this medium/small henge.
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Ballymeanoch Kerb Cairn
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
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.
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Nether Largie South
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Nether Largie South submitted by Jenny on 10th Jun 2002. Middle-earth Gallery
The Barrow-wight
"He thought there were two eyes, very cold though lit with a pale light..."
Fellowship of the Ring
Book One Chapter VIII
Inside Nether Largie South chambered cairn, Kilmartin, Argyl : a wight's-eye view.
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Temple Wood S
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Temple Wood S submitted by funsize on 4th Jun 2007. This is a cracking site. Large cobble mound with slivers of upright slabs and a central cist. Very accessible and one of many impressive sites within a small area of the Kilmartin Valley. This shows the larger cairn, there is a smaller one ringed by trees a stones throw to the south west.
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Nether Largie Stone Row
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by dougie on 5th Feb 2013. I was at Kilmartin the other day and found that the northern outlier of the five Nether Largie stones had fallen. I've reported this to Historic Scotland and they said they know about it, hopefully they will take some action soon.
Photo copyright Douglas Scott, author of Watchers of the Dawn
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Ballygowan Rock Art
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Ballygowan Rock Art submitted by rockartuk on 20th Aug 2001. A small but perfect site, 300m North of Tyness Cottage, 2.25km SW of Kilmartin (NR 8161 9778). Fenced but not signposted. Great views to the North! On outcrop rock are 11 c&r and at least 60 cups. The c&2r in front right is incised, the others are of the usual pecked type.
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Poltalloch House Rock Art
Date Added: 30th Apr 2013
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. 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.
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Temple Wood N
Date Added: 1st May 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 28th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 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.
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