Region : Strathclyde District : Argyll & Bute Area : Glen Lonan Grid Reference : NM 907 289 Period : 2nd millennium BC Strontoiller (Diarmaid's Pillar and Grave, Clach Diarmid) KERBED CAIRN, STANDING STONE

An impressive standing stone and a small kerbed cairn on the north side of the road through Glen Lonan, east of Oban. The Bronze Age cairn, 4.5m in diameter, was originally kerbed by 15 boulders of which 12 survive. They are up to 1.3m high. The granite monolith is 3.8m high and 4m in girth. It is also traditionally called Diarmaid's Pillar, after the mythical Irish hero, who is said to have hunted boar in these parts. Some 180m to the north is a fine stone circle (NM 906 291) of 31 rounded boulders, about 20m in diameter.

Other kerbed and ring-cairns ------------------ Auchagallon Cullerlie Fowlis Wester Moss Farm Road Raedykes Scord of Brouster Strontoiller Other sites in Strathclyde ---------------------- Achnabreck Achnacree (Carn Ban) Auchagallon Ballochmyle Ballochroy Ballygowan Ballymeanoch Baluachraig Beacharra Cairnbaan Dervaig A Dervaig B Dervaig C Dunchraigaig East Bennan Kilmichael Glassary Kintraw Lamlash (Blairmore Glen) Lochbuie Machrie Moor 1 Machrie Moor 2 Machrie Moor 3 Machrie Moor 4 Machrie Moor 5 Machrie Moor 6 Moss Farm Road Nether Largie Mid Nether Largie North Nether Largie South Nether Largie Standing Stones Normangill Ormaig Ri Cruin Strontoiller Temple Wood Torrylin