Nether Largie South
Kilmartin Glen. Argyll
Bronze age.
The Kilmartin Church can be seen with its graveyard and mausoleum in the far distance. The graveyard is sub circular in form and there is a suggestion that the greater church site appropriated a prior prehistoric site - a henge, roundhouse, stone circle...
The local hotel and pub is the white building. Oban is away to the north of the shot, with the 'Mull of Kintyre' and Cumbria way behind the tripod. The cairn is one of an alignment of five with others thought to have once been included.
The cairn has a central dolmenic cist which has several capstones. The cist in the foreground is covered with a monolithic stone that blurs the line into many of the graveyards from history.
Whilst the cairn barrow is Bronze age, it is thought to be the only one in the linear cemetery that has, as its origin, a neolithic earthwork mound.
Nether Largie South
Kilmartin Glen. Argyll
Bronze age.
The Kilmartin Church can be seen with its graveyard and mausoleum in the far distance. The graveyard is sub circular in form and there is a suggestion that the greater church site appropriated a prior prehistoric site - a henge, roundhouse, stone circle...
The local hotel and pub is the white building. Oban is away to the north of the shot, with the 'Mull of Kintyre' and Cumbria way behind the tripod. The cairn is one of an alignment of five with others thought to have once been included.
The cairn has a central dolmenic cist which has several capstones. The cist in the foreground is covered with a monolithic stone that blurs the line into many of the graveyards from history.
Whilst the cairn barrow is Bronze age, it is thought to be the only one in the linear cemetery that has, as its origin, a neolithic earthwork mound.