Kilmartin Glen is an area in Argyll north of Knapdale. It has the most important concentration of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in mainland Scotland.[1] The glen is located between Oban and Lochgilphead,[2] surrounding the village of Kilmartin. In the village, Kilmartin Museum[3] explains the stories of this ancient landscape and the people who dwelt there. There are more than 800 ancient monuments within a six-mile (ten-kilometre) radius of the village, with 150 monuments being prehistoric. Monuments include standing stones, a henge monument, numerous cists, and a "linear cemetery" comprising five burial cairns. Several of these, as well as many natural rocks, are decorated with cup and ring marks.
The remains at Dunadd of the fortress of the Scots, a royal centre of Dal Riata, are located to the south of the glen, on the edge of the Moine Mhòr ("Great Moss"). Kilmartin Museum is located within the village itself and inspires and educates people by interpreting, explaining and conserving the internationally important archaeological landscape, artefacts, and natural heritage of Kilmartin Glen.[3]
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KilmartinGlen is an area in Argyll north of Knapdale. It has the most important concentration of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in mainland Scotland...
Argyll and Bute, western Scotland. It is best known as the centre of KilmartinGlen, an area with one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric monuments...
gatherings and small weddings. Kilmartin Castle is located in the historically significant KilmartinGlen which is now home to Kilmartin Museum. More information...
commemorate Knights Templar but this theory is unproven.[citation needed] KilmartinGlen is the richest prehistoric landscape in Scotland. Within an area not...
regions, so the name can also be translated as "coast of the Gaels". The KilmartinGlen has standing stones and other monuments dating back to around 3000 BC...
stone rows at Carnac in Brittany. Further evidence can be found in KilmartinGlen with its Stone Circles, Standing Stones and Rock Art. The widespread...
central cairn may have been used as a funeral pyre. Glebe cairn in KilmartinGlen in Argyll dates from 1700 BC and has two stone cists inside one of which...
Press. p. 71 "Glebe cairn". Saints and Stones. Retrieved 4 August 2012. "Kilmartin Glebe". Canmore. Retrieved 4 August 2012. "Skye, Dun Ringill". Canmore...
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Temple Wood (or Half Moon Wood) is an ancient site located in KilmartinGlen, near Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland. The site includes two circles (north and...
similar claim is made for other sites including Dumbarton Rock and KilmartinGlen. Driscoll & Yeoman, p. 220. Driscoll & Yeoman, pp. 222–223. Driscoll...
henge, the largest of which is 5 metres (16 feet) high. (S) 3000 Argyll KilmartinGlen contains 350 Neolithic and Bronze Age relics within a 10-kilometre (6...
glory of Glen Affric". Forestry Commission. Retrieved 1 July 2012. "The AGREEMENT between FORESTRY ENTERPRISE and TREES FOR LIFE on work in the GLEN AFFRIC...
coasts of Ireland. It probably ruled from the fortress of Dunadd, now near Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute. In the late 6th and early 7th centuries, it encompassed...
Although sited on raised ground close to a strategic pass at the head of KilmartinGlen, it was designed more for domestic rather than military purposes. The...
middle settlement) is a complex of neolithic structures located in KilmartinGlen, Scotland. It includes an avenue of two rows of standing stones with...
Scotland, particularly in the Kilmartin district. The representations of an axe and a boat at the Ri Cruin Cairn in Kilmartin, and a boat pecked into Wemyss...
part of Scotland are very rare although there are similar carvings at KilmartinGlen, in Argyll. Thought to be of high social standing, the body had been...
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