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Kilmartin Glen is the richest prehistoric landscape in Scotland. Within an area not much over 6 miles (9.7 km) long a huge diversity of standing stones, stone circles, carved rocks and ancient tombs can be found.
Nether Largie standing stones are located southeast of Temple Wood stone circle and are composed of four menhirs, arranged in pairs an approximately 70 metres apart, with a single menhir in the middle. Around which are seven smaller stones and one fallen one. Another menhir is one hundred metres to the northwest leading towards the circle.
Stone carver carving stone, at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, 1909. The Kilmartin Stones in Scotland - a collection of ancient stone carved graveslabs Khazneh structure carved into a cliff in Petra southern Jordan. Stone carving is an activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by
Kilmartin Church was evidently an important burial site, and the graveslabs of the 'Loch Awe school' of carving may have been carved in a workshop at or near Kilmartin. The swords shown on many of the stones refer to warrior (or, more broadly, social) status, and have no connection with the Templars or other medieval military orders, as is ...
Sculptured stones from Kilmartin Glen. Sculpture in Scotland includes all visual arts operating in three dimensions in the borders of modern Scotland. Durable sculptural processes traditionally include carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material), in stone, metal, clay, wood and other materials.
Temple Wood (or Half Moon Wood) is an ancient site located in Kilmartin Glen, near Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland. The site includes two circles (north and south). The southern circle contains a ring of 13 standing stones about 12 metres (40 feet) in diameter. In the past it may have had 22 stones.
Novalesa cup-and-rings stone Italy. Numerous cup-marked stones have been found in the alpine valleys, comprising Val Camonica (), associated with rock drawings.Regarding western alps (), the best known are distributed along the Chisone, [17] Susa [18] and Viù valleys; also the La Bessa [19] site is to be cited.
Kilmartin Glen: Kilmichael Glassary Cup And Ring Marks: Early prehistoric cup and ring carvings of Kilmartin Glen Nether Largie Cairns: A Neolithic and two Bronze Age cairns of Kilmartin Glen Ri Cruin Cairn: Bronze Age burial cairn within Kilmartin Glen Temple Wood Stone Circles: Standing stones of Kilmartin Glen dating to about 3000 BC