Strathclyde - Prehistoric Sites

Remains of an impressive hilltop dun, or Iron Age fort, erected sometime between 1000 BC and AD 400. Dun Nosebridge is defended by earthwork banks and ditches reinforced with stone walls. It is one of the best-preserved of Islay's ancient fortified sites.
Bridgend, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Dunadd Fort is a spectacular hill fort occupying a rocky outcrop that rises above the marsh of Moine Mhor, The 'Great Moss', near the southern end of Kilmartin Glen. The hill fort was first occupied in the Iron Age, and later became the centre of the Scottish kingdom of Dalriada (Dal Riata).
Kilmartin Glen, Kilmartin, Strathclyde, Scotland

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In a stunning location overlooking Dunagoil Bay stand two Iron Age hill forts and a stone-lined burial cist. The hill fort walls have been vitrified; fused by intense heat. Finds from Dunagoil are at the Rothesay Museum.
Dunagoil, Kingarth, Bute, Strathclyde, Scotland, PA20 9LX

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Dunchraigaig Cairn is a Bronze Age burial mound with 3 burial cists (inner chambers), in the heart of historic Kilmartin Glen
A816, Kilmartin, Lochgilphead, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Fingal's Limpet Hammers are a pair of standing stones associated with the legendary Celtic giant Fingal. The stones stand in a field just to the west of Loch Fada, at Lower Kilchattan. They are all that remains of a stone circle. The stones are alternately called Carrach An.
Kilchattan, Kilchattan, Isle of Colonsay, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Garvard Standing Stone is a solitary standing stone atop a hillock or small mound overlooking The Strand at the southern tip of Colonsay. From the mound there are superb views across to Oronsay, and eastward to Jura and Islay.
Garvard, Isle of Colonsay, Strathclyde, Scotland

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In a small clearing on a hillside above Whiting Bay stand a pair of Neolithic chambered long cairns known as the Giants' Graves (sometimes wrongly spelled as Giant's Graves). The cairns are of the Clyde type, and are in a poor state of repair, with turf bracken covering part of the remains.

Glenashdale, Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran, Arran, Strathclyde, Scotland

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Glebe Cairn is an Early Bronze Age cairn with two burial chambers, located at the northern tip of the linear cemetery in Kilmartin Glen.
Kilmartin, Strathclyde, Scotland

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A slender, tapering stone about 3m high stands in a farm field north of Port Ellen. A few metres away is another fallen stone of the same height.
Port Ellen, Strathclyde, Scotland, PA42 7DS

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Remains of a fortified farmstead built in the 1st or 2nd century. The dun was reoccupied by the 9th century and again in the late 12th century. You can still see remains of a double staircase built into the thickness of the dun wall.
B842, Saddell, Kintyre, Strathclyde, Scotland, PA28 6QR

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Heritage Highlight: Remains of a double staircase

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