Ancient tree · Medieval
Eppie Callum's Oak
Argyll and Bute
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Argyll and Bute
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in Argyll and Bute
90 places in Argyll and Bute, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Robert the Bruce Yew
Argyll and Bute
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near Arrochar
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Achnabreck Cup and Ring Marks
Argyll and Bute
Achnabreck's rock surfaces were carved with cup and ring marks in prehistory — the purpose, and even the precise date, of the markings is uncertain…
- Near Lochgilphead
- 6 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballymeanoch Standing Stones and Henge
Argyll and Bute
Ballymeanoch is a complex of Neolithic structures in Kilmartin Glen: an avenue of two rows of standing stones (of four and two stones), a stone cir…
- Near Kilmartin
- 6 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle Sween
Argyll and Bute
Castle Sween, on the eastern shore of Loch Sween in Knapdale, Argyll, is thought to be one of the earliest stone castles built in Scotland — and is…
- Near Achnamara
- 466 metres from car park
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Dunadd Fort
Argyll and Bute
Dunadd is a hillfort in Argyll and Bute, occupied from the Iron Age and into the early medieval period, and believed to have been the capital of th…
- Near Kilmartin
- 237 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Dunchraigaig Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Dunchraigaig is an Early Bronze Age round cairn, about 30 m across, set a little apart to the south-east of the famous 2 km linear cemetery of cair…
- Near Kilmartin
- 1 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Finlaggan, Eilean Mor
Argyll and Bute
In the first half of the 7th century a monastic community was established on Eilean Mor, the largest of the three islands in Loch Finlaggan — eithe…
- Near Port Askaig
- 520 metres from car park
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Iona Abbey
Argyll and Bute
Saint Columba came to Iona from Ireland with twelve companions in 563, founding a monastery when Iona was part of the Kingdom of Dál Riata. It beca…
- Near Baile Mor, Iona
- 1.8 km from car park
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Keills Chapel and Cross
Argyll and Bute
The chapel dates from the 11th century. Its now re-roofed structure houses an important collection of early stone sculpture, and the original Keill…
- Near Tayvallich
- 73 metres from car park
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Kildalton Cross and Chapel
Argyll and Bute
The high cross was carved probably in the second half of the 8th century AD, in a workshop tradition closely related to the contemporary crosses on…
- Near Port Ellen
- 1 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Kilmory Knap Chapel
Argyll and Bute
The chapel was built in the 13th century. After its roof was lost the building was used as a burial enclosure, and it was re-roofed in 1934 to shel…
- Near Kilmory, Knapdale
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nether Largie South Chambered Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Nether Largie South is a Neolithic Clyde-type chambered cairn and the earliest monument in the Kilmartin Glen linear cemetery — the line of cairns…
- Near Kilmartin
- 7 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ri Cruin Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Ri Cruin is the most southerly cairn in the Kilmartin Glen linear cemetery, a Bronze Age burial cairn built between roughly 2200 BC and 1950 BC.
- Near Kilmartin
- 8 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Temple Wood Stone Circles
Argyll and Bute
Temple Wood, in Kilmartin Glen, comprises two stone circles - a northern and a southern circle. The southern circle's first incarnation may have be…
- Near Kilmartin
- 8 min walk from car park
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Castle Stalker
Argyll and Bute
A rare surviving west-Highland tower house set on its own tidal islet, whose ownership passed between the Stewarts of Appin and the Campbells befor…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Duart Castle
Argyll and Bute
The medieval stronghold and ancestral seat of Clan MacLean, reclaimed and restored by the clan's chief in 1911 after more than a century as a ruin.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Duntrune Castle
Argyll and Bute
By tradition the oldest continuously occupied castle on mainland Scotland, Duntrune joins thirteenth-century MacDougall walls to a seventeenth-cent…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Glebe Cairn
Argyll and Bute
The northernmost cairn in Kilmartin Glen's Bronze Age linear cemetery, one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric ritual and burial monuments…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Inveraray Castle
Argyll and Bute
One of the earliest and most complete expressions of Gothic Revival architecture in Scotland, and the continuous seat of the Dukes of Argyll and Cl…
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Carved stone · Medieval
Kilberry Sculptured Stones
Argyll and Bute
A surviving group of late medieval cross-slabs and grave markers rescued from a lost parish church, now protected as a scheduled monument in the gr…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nether Largie Mid Cairn
Argyll and Bute
It forms a central link in the Kilmartin Glen linear cemetery, one of Scotland's most concentrated groupings of prehistoric burial monuments.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nether Largie North Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Its carved capstone, marked with dozens of cup-marks and ten axe-head symbols, makes it one of the most vividly decorated Bronze Age burial monumen…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Blane's Church
Argyll and Bute
One of Scotland's more complete early monastic sites, it preserves a sequence running from a sixth-century Celtic foundation through a Norse-era ru…
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Moluag's Cathedral, Lismore
Argyll and Bute
It preserves the much-reduced remains of the cathedral of the medieval diocese of Argyll, rooted in a monastery traced to the sixth-century saint M…
More places in Argyll and Bute
Briefer entries — recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Carloonan, Inveraray Castle Estate
Argyll and Bute
Dovecote with HES-listed pre-1800 evidence (1747).
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