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Kilmartin Glen

Kilmartin, Argyll

Over 350 ancient monuments packed into one Scottish valley.

Kilmartin Glen holds more than 350 prehistoric monuments within six miles: stone circles, burial cairns, standing stones and rocks carved with cups and rings. The Temple Wood circles sit at its heart.

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When
From c. 3000 BC
Where
56.1330, -5.4880
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Free to explore. Kilmartin Museum explains the sites.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

Within six miles of the village of Kilmartin there are more than 800 ancient monuments, and 150 of them are prehistoric.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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