Strathclyde - Prehistoric Sites

An early Christian chapel stands within a circular enclosure in a spectacular setting on the northwest coast of Bute. Within the chapel is a simple stone altar. A stone's throw away is St Michael's Grave Neolithic chambered cairn.
Kilmichael Cottage, Glecknabae, Bute, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Heritage Highlight: The chapel retains its stone altar

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Bronze Age cup and ring carvings decorate a natural rock outcrop near the school in Kilmichael Glassary village.
Kilmichael, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Kilpatrick is an intriguing archaeological site, a complex of ancient structures variously described as a dun, or fort, and a cashel associated with a monastery founded by St Brandon (a cashel is a circular enclosure bounded by a drystone wall, though the term is often used to describe an early Celtic religious site).
Arran, Blackwaterfoot, Isle of Arran, Arran, Strathclyde, Scotland

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A solitary standing stone keeps watch over the shore at the northern tip of Loch Craignish. The stone, rising 13 feet, is said to mark the grave of a Norse prince. It forms part of a prehistoric complex that includes at least three burial cairns.
A816, Ardfern, Argyll, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Heritage Highlight: Part of a complex that includes three burial cairns

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The only stone circle on Mull, composed of nine stones with several outlying standing stones. The circle is about 12 metres in diameter, and the largest stone is two metres high. The location near the foot of Ben Buie is spectacular.
Lochbuie, Isle of Mull, Strathclyde, Scotland, PA62 6AA

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Heritage Highlight: Fantastically scenic location on the south coast of Mull

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Think of Machrie Moor as a collection of prehistoric monuments rather than a stone circle, and you will be closer to the mark. The remains of up to 10 Bronze Age circles, hut circles, standing stones, and cairns are clustered in close groupings around the moor, to form one of the most important sites of its kind in all of Britain. The stones were erected over a long period of time, and cannot be considered as a single, cohesive monument.
Machrie, Isle of Arran, Arran, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Heritage Highlight: One of the most important prehistoric monuments in Britain

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Maclean's Cross is a finely carved 15th-century cross standing beside the ancient 'street of the dead' near Iona Abbey. The cross stands at the place where the processional path crosses a path leading from St Ronan’s Port, the current boat landing.
Iona, Iona, Isle of Mull, Strathclyde, Scotland

Attraction Type: Prehistoric - Carved Stone
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Beside the trail that leads to the famous standing stones on Machrie Moor is an attractive little Bronze Age ring cairn surrounded by a circle of standing stones. Though it is called a stone circle, it is, in fact, a burial mound, surrounded by upright kerb stones.

Blackwaterfoot, Isle of Arran, Arran, Strathclyde, Scotland

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At Nether Largie two Bronze Age cairns and one Neolithic cairn (3000BC) form part of a linear cemetery running in a roughly north-south direction down the floor of Kilmartin Glen. There are 5 cairns in the cemetery, and a 6th just east of the southern end of the cemetery.
Kilmartin, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Heritage Highlight: The north cairn, with is cupmarks and axehead carvings

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A group of five standing stones in an X-shape, with the central stone being carved with cup and ring marks. The stones stand in a field just south of the Nether Largie cairns, in the centre of Kilmartin Glen.
Kilmartin, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Heritage Highlight: Cup and ring carvings on the central stone

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