Ballymeanoch Stone Row and Henge
Ballymeanoch alignment
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age·Kilmartin Neolithic/Bronze Age·🇬🇧 Kilmartin Glen, Argyll & Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom
About
About Ballymeanoch Stone Row and Henge
Four-stone row (1.8–2.8 m) plus two-stone alias and cup-marked outlier in Kilmartin Glen, with two Bronze Age cairns, cup-and-ring decorated outcrop and Ballymeanoch henge (scheduled but ploughed). Stones of chlorite schist with cup marks including ~70 on second stone from north. Part of glen's distributed monument landscape demonstrating stone-row tradition parallel to cairn cemetery. Excavated 1864.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 0170-cup-mark stone selective decoration meaning
Theories
- 01Ritual route linking Kilmartin cemetery nodes
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 2500–1800 BCE
- Period
- Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age
- Culture
- Kilmartin Neolithic/Bronze Age
- Purpose
- Alignment and burial landscape
- Abandoned
- Iron Age
- Rediscovered
- Excavated 1864 (Mapleton); RCHMS survey
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 2500–1800 BCE
Initial construction
c. 1039 CE
Abandonment
On the ground
Structures & features
56.1110° N · 5.4868° W · 25 m · 2 mapped features
70-cup-mark stone
decorated stoneSecond stone from north with 70 plain cups and 12 cup-and-rings
56.1110° N · 5.4868° WBallymeanoch Henge
hengePloughed henge 35 m diam 130 m SSW of row
56.1100° N · 5.4872° W
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