Ballymeanoch
Standing Stones
NR 833 964
Park in the carpark beside the Dunchraigaig cairn on the A816 south of Kilmartin and you will see the stones in a field a couple of hundred metres to the SW. Follow the track to the site. Ahead of you the kerb cairn can be seen in the SE beside a drainage ditch.
There were originally seven stones in two parallel settings, one fell and was dumped near the kerb cairn in the ditch.
The sheep here are quite unafraid and followed our dogs around, like the cows at Nether Largie, which has confused them. The two settings are aligned roughly NW to SE, four stones are in one setting and two in the other. The four stones are graded in height from the SE to NW. The tallest is 4.1m high in the SE, the next is 3.6m and the other two are both 2.75m.
The two stone settings
Two
of the stones are decorated, the second tallest has at least 70 cupmarks
as well as five with rings and gutters. The third stone in the row has 40
cupmarks as well as a couple with rings. About
40m to the SW are two more stones in an almost parallel alignment. The
tallest is to the south and is 3m high and the other is 2.7m high.
Summer
2002