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Duntreath Standing Stones

The line of stones shown here is located at the high point of a field, not far from the West Highland Way (the tops of these stones can be seen on the skyline from the adjacent section of that route). The hill that is prominent in the background is Dumgoyach.

An accessible account of the site is given in section 20 of "Archaeology Around Glasgow" (Susan Hothersall, 2007). It is noted there that stone rows are known from the Bronze Age, but that excavation of this particular site suggested a Neolithic date instead (one of the stones, though, was only placed in this row in recent times).

However, the only artefacts recovered were "some flakes of jasper and pitchstone of a type usually associated with Mesolithic times (8000-4000 BC), so perhaps this was a special site even further back in time".

Five stones can be seen in my photograph; another lies hidden by the tall grass between the leftmost two stones. Click on the end-note title for other views.