Qualla: Killin Stone Circle

Killin Stone Circle: Introduction

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On the top of the northernmost stone, three small hollows have been ground into the surface. They are cupmarks -- shallow depressions carved by human hands so long ago that nobody knows what they meant, who made them, or what ceremonies they accompanied. The six stones of Killin Stone Circle stand in a pasture field at the western end of Loch Tay, half a mile east of Killin village, and they have stood there for at least four thousand years. Everything else in the landscape -- the village, the roads, the Gaelic language itself -- arrived after them.

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Killin Stone Circle: Six Stones in a Field

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The circle consists of six upright slabs of dark grey schist, ranging from 1.4 to 1.9 meters in height. They form a flattened circle approximately ten meters in diameter, with the two tallest stones standing side by side in the southwest quadrant. The arrangement is one of the mo...

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Killin Stone Circle: What the Cupmarks Remember

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Cup-and-ring marks are found across Atlantic Europe, from Portugal to Orkney, and they span a period from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age. The three cupmarks on the northernmost stone at Killin connect this modest circle to a continent-wide tradition of marking stone with me...

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