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Ring of Brodgar
Date Added: 8th Sep 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Ring of Brodgar submitted by SandyG on 8th Oct 2015. Southern part of the stone circle. (2nd June 2015).
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Log Text: Exceptional site - better to go in evening without the crowds
Barnhouse Settlement
Date Added: 10th Sep 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2019
Barnhouse Settlement submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Barnhouse Settlement HY306127. Probably in use around the same time of Skara Brae.
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Log Text: There is a daily free tour which is worth doing ( thanks Martin !)
Stenness
Date Added: 15th Sep 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2019
Stenness submitted by Runemage on 15th Jul 2005. Ethereal and numinous.
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Log Text: None
The Orkney Museum
Date Added: 8th Sep 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2019
The Orkney Museum submitted by jeffrep on 5th Aug 2010. Tankerness House, the Orkney Museum in the heart of Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland
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Log Text: The best carved stone has gone to one of the other islands, where it was found
Skara Brae
Date Added: 8th Sep 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Skara Brae submitted by paulinelen on 30th Apr 2012. Hut 1 looking out over the sea - such beautiful colour contrasts creates a fantastic atmosphere.
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Log Text: Incredible architecture
Maes Howe
Date Added: 10th Sep 2019
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2019
Maes Howe submitted by howar on 24th Sep 2013. distant Maes Howe ablaze with sun, viewed from the bird hut near the Barnhouse settlement
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Log Text: Great architectural skills
Watch Stone (Orkney)
Date Added: 10th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Watch Stone (Orkney) submitted by swatson on 18th Jul 2004. Situated 170m NNW of the Stones of Stennes is the Watch Stone; an impressive monolith 5.6m high, dating back to the 3rd millenium BC.
OS HY306125
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Unstan
Date Added: 8th Sep 2019
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Unstan submitted by howar on 27th Jan 2004. Unstan Chambered Cairn front
HY283117 Orkney
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Log Text: Good condition, though restored - could see Pictish carving of bird very clearly on one of the entrances ( is this stone a replica??)
Cuween Hill
Date Added: 8th Sep 2019
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cuween Hill submitted by coin on 9th Jul 2018. Corbelled ceiling in one of the side chambers.
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Log Text: Still as described 2019
Kilvaxter souterrain
Date Added: 28th Mar 2020
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Kilvaxter souterrain submitted by LizH on 30th Aug 2005. The tunnel with a view to the far end.
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Log Text: Too wet to enter
Kilmichael Glassary 1
Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 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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Log Text: Easily accessible behind railings
Ri Cruin
Date Added: 8th Sep 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2019. 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 !!.
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Log Text: The OS reference in The Old Stones is incorrect
Kilmichael Glassary 1
Date Added: 8th Sep 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Achnabreck Eastern Rock submitted by Catrinm on 3rd Sep 2019. Excellent rock art panel.
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Kilmartin Churchyard (Poltalloch Enclosure)
Date Added: 9th Sep 2019
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2019
Kilmartin Churchyard (Poltalloch Enclosure) submitted by Anne T on 20th Aug 2018. This tapered slab, in the Poltalloch Enclosure, measures 1.85m by 0.59m. It has an armed figure above a large ring-knot with triquetra knots in the interspaces. At the top there are the added names POLTALLOCH and CA (?MPBELL). Loch Awe School. Dates to the 14th to 15th century.
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Glebe Cairn
Date Added: 9th Sep 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2019
Glebe Cairn submitted by PaulH on 1st Apr 2003. Kilmartin Valley
Glebe Cairn
NR 833989
Glebe cairn was constructed between 2000 and 1500 BC. It was built on the site of two earlier stone circles, and contained two burial cists
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Nether Largie North
Date Added: 9th Sep 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2019
Nether Largie North submitted by jeffrep on 15th Mar 2008. Nether Largie Cairn North, Kilmartin Glen.
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Nether Largie Mid
Date Added: 9th Sep 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2019
Nether Largie Mid submitted by jeffrep on 15th Mar 2008. View from the North of Nether Largie Mid Cairn in Kilmartin Glen.
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Nether Largie South
Date Added: 9th Sep 2019
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2019
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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Baluachraig Rock Art
Date Added: 9th Sep 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2019
Baluachraig Rock Art submitted by caradoc68 on 18th Mar 2012. Kilmartin does it again !!!!!!!!!!
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Temple Wood S
Date Added: 9th Sep 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2019
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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