| Name: | Nether Largie | ![]() |
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| Type: | Standing Stones | ||
| NGR: | NR 828976 | ||
| Description | |
| This stone is central in a setting of 5. It stands next to a further setting of four stones. Both groups lie between two pairs of uprights. Three stones have carvings, this one the most with 40 cup-marks, one cup-and-ring marking and two cups with gapped circles. Cup and ring carvings are more commonly found on bed rock but certain important standing stones tend to have a proliferation of them such as this example. | |
| Excavation Details | |
| Excavated in 1973. | |
| 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. | |
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