Kilmartin

Today we went by bus to Kilmartin. The trip took 1 hour through more beautiful heather covered hills,  thick pine forests, windy roads, many lochs, some empty , some with many $ s worth of sail and motor craft.

I quote : Kilmartin Glen is home to internationally significant prehistoric and early historic sites and monuments, making it mainland Scotland most important archaeological landscape.

We got a map from the museum and set off through a cow paddock to the first of the sites,  Glebe Cairn.  This was the first of 4 in a row spaced o er a kilometre. They were large piles of stones beneath which were bronze age burial sites. We we able to climb down into 2. Later in the museum we saw some of the pottery items that were found in these cairns. We also saw several groups of standing stones. One was a circle (20 m  diameter )of stones each about 1 m tall. This is considered to be the ceremonial heart of Kilmartin Glen 5000 years ago.

There were more interesting things but we had  a bus to catch to return , so returned to the museum to read briefly about what we had not seen, then returned to Oban.

This afternoon's weather has been the best of the 6 days in this area. We leave tomorrow for Glasgow!