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An amateur archaeologist from Oxfordshire, Hamish Fenton, discovered what may be the oldest animal rock carvings in Scotland at Dunchraigaig cairn, a late Neolithic/early Bronze Age burial mound. This ...
Forgotten for centuries, Kilmartin Glen in Argyll is one of Britain's most important archaeological landscapes – but most people have never heard of it. On the road north-west from Glasgow ...
Kilmartin Glen - on the road between Lochgilphead and Oban - is a tranquil place, but it hasn't always been so. Across 12,000 years, it's been the seat of kings, the burial place of nobility, and ...
HISTORY lies thickly layered in Kilmartin Glen. I’m standing at Nether Largie Cairn South, the oldest of the five stone mounds that once comprised a linear cemetery, a complex of burial and ...
Visitors to the glen are encouraged to “wander among majestic stone circles, standing slabs that jut from the earth, burial cairns and rock carvings of concentric rings” and stay at “moody ...
The deer carvings found in Kilmartin Glen "completely change the assumption that prehistoric rock art in Britain was mainly geometric and non-figurative", said Dr Tertia Barnet of HES.
The newspaper dubbed Kilmartin Glen as a 'misty Stonehenge without the crowds'. Comments. Scotland Now. Ketsuda Phoutinane Spare Time Content Editor. 11:45, 16 Jan 2023 Updated 12:05, 16 Jan 2023.
One of Scotland’s lesser-known glens has been rated as one of the top places in the world to visit in 2023. The New York Times annual 52 Places to Go travel list has placed Kilmartin Glen in … ...
Kilmartin Glen, on the west coast of Scotland, was praised for its ‘majestic stone circles, burial cairns and rock carvings’ The UK has a lot to offer – even if us Brits don’t always feel ...
Forgotten for centuries, Kilmartin Glen in Argyll is one of Britain's most important archaeological landscapes – but most people have never heard of it. On the road north-west from Glasgow ...