"Paired stone sentinels aligned across Kilmartin Glen's ancient ceremonial floodplain"
Dunamuck South Stone Row
Kilmichael Glassary, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
On level ground beside the River Add, two massive stone slabs stand where Bronze Age hands raised them four thousand years ago. Aligned on a NNW-SSE axis and visually linked to the Dunamuck North stone row across the fields, these stones participated in a network of ceremony that made Kilmartin Glen one of prehistoric Scotland's most significant ritual landscapes. Reaching them requires a walk across farmland that strips away expectation and returns the visitor to encounter.
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Quick Facts
Location
Kilmichael Glassary, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
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Coordinates
56.0752, -5.4577
Last Updated
Feb 5, 2026
Dunamuck South Stone Row was erected during the Early Bronze Age (approximately 2500-1500 BCE) as part of the extraordinary concentration of prehistoric monuments in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll. The stones stand on the western floodplain of the River Add and are visually and directionally aligned with the Dunamuck North stone row. No written records survive from the builders. The site was documented by the RCAHMS in their Argyll County Inventory and is a scheduled ancient monument.
Origin Story
No origin narratives survive from the prehistoric builders. The name Dunamuck derives from the Gaelic Dun a' Mhuic, meaning 'fort of the pig,' referring to the nearby settlement rather than any mythology associated with the stones. The builders left no written language, no inscriptions, only the stones themselves and the alignment they still hold.
Key Figures
Unknown Bronze Age communities
RCAHMS surveyors
Spiritual Lineage
The lineage of Dunamuck South spans from anonymous Bronze Age builders through centuries of agricultural continuity to modern heritage protection. The communities who erected the stones left no names and no written records. Subsequent inhabitants of the glen, from Iron Age and Dal Riata settlers through medieval and modern farming communities, apparently left the stones undisturbed. The RCAHMS documented the site in the twentieth century. Historic Environment Scotland now protects it as a scheduled monument. Kilmartin Museum, redesigned and reopened in 2023, provides interpretive context for the broader landscape.
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