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Sites Anne T has logged on trip number: 88 (View all trips) View these posts as a blog
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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 |
| Port Nan Athlaich (Craignish) | Cist | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Port Nan Athlaich Cist, Aird, Craignish: I counted this as 'a bit more of a walk' as it wasn't a simple walk along a footpath, but involved a large step over a ruinous barbed wire fence and taking a few stepping stones across a stream. The walk is glorious, and is to be recommended.
Since we’... Read More |
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| Kintraw (Kilmartin) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Kintraw Standing Stones and Cairns: This standing stone, when we spotted it on the evening of 17th July looked magnificent, but we couldn’t find anywhere to park; approaching this stone from the direction of Ardfern, there was a gateway to the field to pull into, which gave us just room to pull of... Read More |
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| Creagantairbh Beag Cairns | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Creagantaribh Beag Cairns (near gate to the track leading to the Glennan Standing Stones: see report for Glennan Standing Stones. We spotted the larger cairn on the way to the standing stone; these smaller two (nearest the gate) we spotted on the way back to the car. | 88 | 4 |
| Creagantairbh Beag | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Creagantairbh Beag Standing Stone: I hadn’t spotted these on the OS map as we were driving along, but saw the still standing stone through the fence line. Quickly stopping by the side of the road to take a photograph, I noticed there was also a fallen stone. We decided to stop and investigate fu... Read More |
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| Ford Cist | Cist | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Aug 2018 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Ford Cist: Not having access to the internet, we thought this was just a cairn which had been marked on the OS map. This monument is in an odd location, just inside the village boundary, tucked between the junction of the road through to Torran and the B840 running along the south shore of Loch Aw... Read More |
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| Torran Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Torran Cross Incised Standing Stone: This was to be the first time we’d seen a cross-inscribed standing stone, so we were pretty keen to locate it. From Ford, we continued up the minor road towards Torran, passing An Lodan Loch to our right hand side. We parked at the wide stony entrance to a sma... Read More |
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| Ford Stone (Kilmartin) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Ford Stone, near Torran: We spotted this stone to the west of the road as we drove towards Ford village to see the cairn marked on the OS map and the Torran Cross Incised Stone, but the road was narrow and we could find nowhere to stop, so we decided to look on the way back.
This time, we man... Read More |
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| Kilmartin House | Museum | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Kilmartin Museum: We managed to get a space in the car park. From the number of cars parked outside the museum and along the roads, we thought the place would be heaving with people (including a bus tour which had turned up), but the café was quiet and relaxing and there was only one other lady an... Read More |
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| Kilmichael Glassary Kirk | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Kilmichael Glassary Kirk, Cross Slab: [note: visit 88:10 was to Kilmartin Museum. Am still awaiting permission to publish some photos.] We parked in the small car park opposite the church and next to the small, very busy, playground. At first glance, this church is very intimidating and Scottish, b... Read More |
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| Kilmichael Glassary 1 | Rock Art | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Kilmichael Glassary 1, Rock Art: This was a real treat. From the small car park by the play park opposite the kirk, we followed the road up the slight hill, past the houses. The rocks are railed off, but to my surprise, walking to the top of the railings, there is a step to allow you to climb in t... Read More |
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| Torbhlaran Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Torbhlaren Standing Stone: A farmer in a red tractor had been mowing the field here, but had left his tractor and mower sitting by the side of the gate with the light flashing. There was no sign of the farmer. We parked in the next layby down the road, where there was a passing space on both sides... Read More |
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| Torbhlaran 2 | Rock Art | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Torbhlaran 2: A large portion of the rock was covered in turf, so there may have been plenty of motifs which were under a soil cover, but we were unable to identify anything at the time of our visit. | 88 | 14 |
| Leckuary Rock Art | Rock Art | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Luckuary Rock Art Panel: A new find, some three years ago, and about to be included in a survey of Kilmichael Glen, which sounds similar to the England's Rock Art project. This was most definitely one of the highlights of our trip, thanks to the farmer who is very interested in archaeology and work... Read More |
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| Leckuary Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Leckuary Dolmen or just a quartz covered stone? This stone protruded from the surrounding pasture like a gleaming white, stubby standing stone. We walked over to it and photographed it. It appears to sit on a low, almost circular mound with this stone in the middle, which in turn sits on a bed of... Read More |
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| An Car, Leckuary | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | An Car Standing Stone, Leckuary: We found this stone on the OS map, and it is also featured on page 130 (walk 17) of the “In The Footsteps of Kings” book. We are advised by the book: “Please call at the farm if you wish to get closer to this stone”.
We thought about letting ourselves i... Read More |
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| Dunchraigaig Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Dunchcraigaig Cairn: Parking in the small car park opposite the cairn, we crossed (ran over between the cars doing at least 60mph) the busy road to have a look at yet another large, stony cairn (special in its own right, but so many of them around here!). Just as we drew into the car park, a black ... Read More |
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| Ballymeanoch Stone Row | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Ballymeanoch Stone Row: Continued from 88.19 visit report (“Who let the bullocks out?”). This was our last stop of the day. We had hoped to fit in DunnAd fort, but we were ‘all monumented out’ by this time of the evening. A truly wonderful spot, with some fantastic standing stones/stone ro... Read More |
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