Kilmartin Monuments
Name: Creagantairbh Creagantairbh
Type: Rock Carvings
NGR: NM 843012
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Description
In a pasture field which lies to the E of the Kilmartin to Oban road (A816) and about 400m N of the turning to Ford there are two decorated outcrops.
Group 1 (larger of the two)
This is situated on the level top of a rock-sheet 15m E of the public road; at the S end of the exposure, there is an erratic boulder and on the W - turf has grown over part of the worked surface. There are twelve cups with single rings and over 130 plain cupmarks (some with gutters) and, at the NE end, an unusual group of grooves, some which form irregular enclosures. A deep mark at the NE angle of the outcrop is probably modern.
Group 2
On the highest point of the bluff, about 60m to the SE of the first group, there are two cupmarks which measure 50mm by 15mm.
Published References
  • RCAHMS Argyll vol. 6 no.140
Abbreviated References