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Mid-Argyll - 26
Nether Largie

Site/Artefact Nether Largie Type Standing stones Site Number 26 National Grid Reference 1828 East 6976 North Map ( 1:25000) Ordnance Survey Landranger 55 List of Sites and Artefacts Click Here Interactive Map Click Here

Excavation Details
Excavated in 1973.

Description
Complex setting of standing stones which lies 250m SE of Temple Wood stone circle. Two pairs of standing stones lie approximately 64 metres apart with a small group of four stones and another of five stones between them. Recent geophysical survey suggests other features and earthworks may have been associated with the settings.

The tallest of the southernmost pair of stones is 2.8m high and has 3 cupmarks on one face, the tallest of the group of five stones is also 2.8m high and has 40 cupmarks on one face, while the tallest of the northernmost pair of stones is again 2.8m high and the smaller of the pair has three cupmarks.

Another stone lies 100m away from the northern end and the stump of another (discovered in 1973) lies 300m away from the southern end.

Archeoastronomers believe that this complex site could track the movements of the sun and moon and therefore be used to predict such events as eclipses.

Access/Ownership
This site, although located on private land is due to have a formal public access opened in the spring of 1998 via a new car park 1km south of Kilmartin at the Crinan turn off.

References

• PSAS, 6 (1864-6), 338
• Campbell & Sandeman, 21, no.146
• Campbell & Sandeman, 34, no.242
• Morris, 110, ARG 68
• DES (1982), 22
• Glasgow Herald, 1 September 1973
• DES (1973), 13
• Kist, 8 (1974), 6
• Hawkins, "Mindsteps to the Cosmos" (1983), 100-2

Mid-Argyll Sites and Artefacts

1. Kilmory Oib  2. Druim an Dúin  3. Duntroon  4. Dún Ardifur 1  5. Eilean Rígh 1  6. Dún Chonaillach  7. Loch Awe Crannogs  8. Torran Hoard  9. Dún na Nighinne 10. Kilmartin Parish Church 11. Temple Wood Stone Circles 12. Ogham stone, Poltalloch 13. Barnakil Cross 14. Kilbride Chapel 15. Kilbride Crosses 16. Dunadd Fort 17. In Nomine disk 18. Brooch Moulds 19. Dunadd cross-marked quern 20. Loch Glashan Crannog 21. Glebe Cairn

22. Nether Largie North 23. Nether Largie Mid 24. Nether Largie South 25. Ri Cruin 26. Nether Largie 27. Ballymeanoch - Stones 28. Ballymeanoch - Henge 29. Ballymeanoch - Cairn 30. Dunchragaig 31. Baluachraig 32. Carnassarie Castle 33. BallymeanocH - Barrow 34. Dun Mac Samhainn 35. Glenmoine, Upper Largie 36. Creag a' Mhadaidh 37. Carnassarie - Round Cairn 38. Carnasserie - Standing Stones 39. Carnasserie - Cist 40. Carnasserie Cottage 41. Upper Largie - Cist 42. Upper Largie - Rock Carvings

43. Nether Largie 44. Poltalloch - Cist 45. Poltalloch - cists 46. Bruach an Druimein 47. Dunchraigaig - Dun 48. Poltalloch - Round Cairn 49. Rownfield - Cist 50. Ballymeanoch - Cist 51. Poltalloch - Cists 52. Ballymeanoch - Dun 53. Dunadd - Standing Stones 54. Dunadd - Standing Stone 55. Baile Mor - Dun 56. Anaskeog - Rock Carvings 57. Bariole 58. Rhudil - Round Cairn 1 59. Rhudil - Round Cairn 2 60. Kilmartin Castle 61. Slockavullin 62. Rowanfield - Standing Stone 63. Poltalloch - Cremation

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