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| Site Name (A/D) |
Site Type | Country (A/D) |
County/ Region | Visited? (A/D) |
Date (A/D) |
Cond | Amb | Acc | Comments | Trip Number (A/D) |
Trip Order |
| Kilmartin Churchyard (Poltalloch Enclosure) | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The Poltalloch Enclosure, Kilmartin churchyard: See main report for Kilmartin churchyard (MP 87.18). | 87 | 18 |
| Kilmartin Churchyard (Lapidarium) | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Kilmartin Church (Lapidarium): See visit report for Kilmartin Churchyard (MP87.18) | 87 | 18 |
| Kilmartin Churchyard | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Kilmartin Churchyard: Having booked ourselves in for an evening meal at the Kilmartin Arms opposite the church (warning: the portions were huge, but really good), we went across to the churchyard to find the cross slabs in the churchyard that Rachel Butter mentions in her "Kilmartin" book (page 99) ... Read More |
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| Nether Largie Stone Row | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Nether Largie Stone Alignment: Ever since I read about this alignment in the early text for the Portal's book "The Old Stones" I've wanted to visit this location. It's in a lovely, lovely, setting, in the Kilmartin Glen. Having got used to Northumberland where you largely only see sheep or cattle ... Read More |
87 | 11 |
| Nether Largie standing stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Nether Largie Standing Stone/Outlier to the stone alignment: The gate into the field with this standing stone was wired shut and the book we had with us asked us not to intrude into the field. There was also a group of largely, lively bullocks clustered around the gate, so we contented ourselves wi... Read More |
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| Glebe Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 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 fasci... Read More |
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| Nether Largie North | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Nether Largie North, Kilmartin: From afar (approaching it from Nether Largie Mid) this cairn had a white square in the middle of its top, which looked like Cairnpapple, which got me thinking you could enter the chamber. This was indeed the case, as the white square was a hatch which could be raise... Read More |
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| Nether Largie Mid | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Nether Largie Mid-Cairn: This cairn is not quite as impressive as Nether Largie South, but we found it fascinating to look at. Reading Webb's "In The Footsteps of Kings" she says the cairn was originally placed on a slightly raised terrace, but its position has been exaggerated because the ground b... Read More |
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| Nether Largie South | Chambered Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Nether Largie South: Impressively large, with a chamber you can get into. Have seen other chambered cairns in Northumberland, but all in pretty ruinous condition, nothing like this. Our second stop after the stone alignment. Beautiful location; a lot of other visitors at this time of year. | 87 | 14 |
| Temple Wood N | Stone Circle | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Temple Wood North East circle: Within sight of the Temple Wood South West circle (I got my bearings all confused here!). This cairn has obviously been recreated, with concrete posts and blocks representing post holes and kerb stones. Nicely done. | 87 | 13 |
| Temple Wood S | Stone Circle | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Temple Wood South West Circle: We had this site all to ourselves for all of five minutes before other parties followed us in. We did look for the rock art quite carefully, but were unable to find it. | 87 | 12 |
| Clenamacrie Stone Row | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Glenamacrie/Clenamacrie Stone Row: After An Dun, we headed off a few hundreds yards west back down the road. I took two lots of photos here, because I think I mistook an outcrop (an unmown area of the field with stones protruding, at NM 92745 28409). Andrew had mentioned both a ‘stone row’ and... Read More |
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| Glenamacrie Dun | Stone Fort or Dun | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | An Dun/Glenamachrie Dun: Not far to the east of the cairns and standing stone at Glenamachrie Farm. We bypassed those, and came here first to take photos then turn the car around to go back and photograph the standing stones and cairn. When husband came back, he said he’d had the most bizarre ex... Read More |
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| Glenamachrie Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Glenamachrie Cairn: This cairn was marked on the map on the way to An Dun fort and the standing stone to the east; I asked “if we spot this, can we stop”, and there it stood, almost on top of the road. As the road was quite busy with lots of cars and trucks going by, Andrew moved the car to the... Read More |
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| Clach na Carraig | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Clach na Carraign, Lorn: When Andrew said ‘that’s the standing stone’ as we approached it on the road, I thought at first this was just part of an old buttress, like the one’s at St. Matthew’s Old Church in Roslin. I wasn’t until I got closer and had photographed the small cairn to its ... Read More |
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| Strontoiller Large Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Strontoiller Round Cairn, Lorn: This cairn is just to the south west of the stone circle. From the stone circle, it definitely looks like a grassed-over round cairn. As we walked over to it, on our way back to the standing stone, I was not convinced we were looking at the right thing, but the GPS ... Read More |
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| Strontoiller circle | Stone Circle | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Strontoiller Stone Circle, Lorn: After having taken a few photographs of the small cairn, we walked a couple of hundred yards back along the road to the gate in the field, which is at the corner of the road and the track to Strontoiller farmhouse/cottage. It was a short walk over the pasture to the... Read More |
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| Diarmid's Grave | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Strontoiller (Small Cairn), next to the Clach Na Carraig standing stone: This was perhaps the most amusing encounter of our whole trip, involving a human and two sheep. As we pulled up by the cattle grid at NM 90788 28935, just before some houses set back from the road, I heard a man’s voice repe... Read More |
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| Dalineun | Chambered Tomb | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Dalineun (Dalnaneun Farm) Chambered Cairn, Loch Nell: We made the mistake of thinking the chambered cairn was in the field opposite the crannog, and climbed over a small stile over the fence; however, we realised that we were in the wrong field, climbed back onto the road and walked down to the gate... Read More |
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| Glenamacrie Farm | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Saw from a distance | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Glenamacrie Farm Cairn: Having stopped to look at the standing stones, with waist height, new wire fence and barbed wire all around this field, the nearest gate appeared to be by the farmhouse. If we'd been bold enough to walk up the farm track to get a closer look, we'd have got much better photo... Read More |
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| Barnacarry | Crannog | Scotland | Argyll | Saw from a distance | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | Barnacarry Crannog, Loch Nell: (note on access: boat needed to get across!) Not having any broadband or mobile connection at the cottage we were staying in, we relied on the OS map. Andrew picked today’s sites, but mistakenly thought the area we were going to was only 10 miles north of Ardfern. ... Read More |
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