Kilmartin Glen: Baluachraig Rock Art

  • Near Kilmartin, Argyll

 

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Baluachraig Rock Art

Kilmartin Glen

1m SSE of Kilmartin off the A816.

Parking available.

This site is accessed through working farmland. To keep you and the livestock safe, please follow the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.

Grid reference - NR 831 969

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Opening times

Open year-round.

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Facilities

A rocky mound in a grassy landscape with a hole on one side, making it look like a turtle.

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Kilmartin Glen: Dunchraigaig Cairn
A large field of rocks that used to make up a cairn in a forest clearing.

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Kilmartin Glen: Ri Cruin Cairn
Several low standing stones in a circle, surrounded by pebbles.

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Kilmartin Glen: Temple Wood Stone Circle
Two low cairns with hills and forest behind it.

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Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie Mid Cairn
A low stone passage leading out of a cairn.

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Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie South Cairn
A grave like hole inlaid with stone slates inside a stone cairn.

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Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie North Cairn
Detail of a beautiful symbol carved into one of the Kilmartin Sculptured Stones.

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Kilmartin Glen: Kilmartin Stones
A grassy landscape with the remains of a stone wall that could be mistaken for a small quarry

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Kilmartin Glen: Glebe Cairn
A rocky mound in a grassy landscape with a hole on one side, making it look like a turtle.

Find out more

Kilmartin Glen: Dunchraigaig Cairn
A large field of rocks that used to make up a cairn in a forest clearing.

Find out more

Kilmartin Glen: Ri Cruin Cairn
Several low standing stones in a circle, surrounded by pebbles.

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Kilmartin Glen: Temple Wood Stone Circle
Two low cairns with hills and forest behind it.

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Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie Mid Cairn
A low stone passage leading out of a cairn.

Find out more

Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie South Cairn
A grave like hole inlaid with stone slates inside a stone cairn.

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Kilmartin Glen: Nether Largie North Cairn
Detail of a beautiful symbol carved into one of the Kilmartin Sculptured Stones.

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Kilmartin Glen: Kilmartin Stones
A grassy landscape with the remains of a stone wall that could be mistaken for a small quarry

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Kilmartin Glen: Glebe Cairn

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