Kilmartin Glen has one of the most important concentrations of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in Scotland.
There are more than 350 ancient monuments within a six-mile radius of the village, including standing stones, a henge monument, cists, a linear cemetery comprising five burial cairns. Several of these, as well as many natural rocks, are decorated with cup and ring marks.
In this 'you may also like' section we attempt to answer what else can I do? Here you have a list by order of being the closest some more beaches, things to see and do, places to eat and upcoming events.
Ettrick Bay has a flat coarse sandy beach on the West coast of Bute and has some good views of Arran. The beach is a wide beach and approximately 1.7 km long and at low tide can stretch out 500m from the high tide mark. At either end of the bay, you have some rocky outcrops and the beach is Read more…
Dunoon West Bay is a sweeping shingle beach backed by a promenade. A little confusing in its name is that the beach faces South into the firth of Clyde. Read more…
Crinan is a village lying at the entrance to the Crinan Canal with the most amazing views over Loch Crinan. Visitors to the area love the area as it’s tranquil and stunningly beautiful with a yacht basin and the fifteen locks on the canal lending it a wonderful outdoors lifestyle to enjoy. Look out for the Tarbert Seafood Festival and Read more…
Arduaine is a twenty acre coastal garden situated on the southern slope of a promontory beside the Sound of Jura. The garden was begun on a bare promontory in 1898 by James Arthur Campbell and continued by two succeeding generations of his family. Today it is managed by the National Trust for Scotland. Read more…
Easdale Island near Oban in Argyll on the west coast of Scotland is one of the Slate Islands and is of historical interest. Easdale Island Folk Museum displays a range of topics from the slate industry, army volunteers, education, geology, boats, and entertainment. There are genealogical records for the Kilbrandon and Kilchattan parish as well as rent books, Masonic records, Read more…
The Inveraray Maritime Museum includes the Arctic Penguin, a 3-masted Schooner built in 1911. The history of the Western Seaboard brought to life, On-board cinema with breathtaking archive film where you get to see the bad conditions of human cargoes to the new world. Children can explore Davy Jones Locker, blow the foghorn, ring the telegraph, try the Pirate’s Ghost Illusion. Gift shop, Read more…
