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<< Our Photo Pages >> Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row - Stone Row / Alignment in Scotland in North Uist

Submitted by Anne T on Saturday, 07 May 2016  Page Views: 1613

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.85 km away from the location you searched for.

County: North Uist Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Stornaway  Nearest Village: Langais
Map Ref: NF82586767
Latitude: 57.587060N  Longitude: 7.313828W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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SandyG visited on 12th Aug 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 1 This is not an easy stone row to get to. Whichever way you approach it from involves walking through boggy terrain and dodging around lochans. Access from the south is relatively straightforward with the advantage that the row is visible from the start. Car parking is available at NF 83520 65827 and while you are here a visit to the nearby Barpa Langass chambered cairn is a must. From the car park carefully cross the road and walk along the verge to NF 82832 65399. From here head north avoiding the lochans. A couple of streams will need to be jumped. I would recommend wellingtons for this one. I can not overstate just how wet the ground conditions are. Assume that progress will be slow and do not set out late in the day. A decent map is essential.

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 2 View from north east. Stone is visible in the background (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row on the Hebridean island of North Uist, made up of 5 stones, is described on the Canmore Record ID 10228 as a 'Standing Stone and Possible Stone Row'.

In the parish of North Uist and the former county of Inverness-shire (now the Western Isles), the Canmore record gives details of the main stone - a standing stone (2.1 metres high, 3.1 metres wide and up to 45 cms thick), some 210 metres west of a small summit cairn built on the Airigh na Gaoithe chambered long cairn (NF86NW 21). It is oriented at 260 degrees with respect to true north.

In 1986, the alignment was recorded as running west from the long cairn for approximately 275 metres and "made up of a leaning stone (7 metres from the north side of the long cairn), a possible fallen stone, a leaning boulder, the above mentioned standing stone and a boulder."

The alignment sits amongst heather and rough grass at an altitude of 41 metres. The site will have clear views over the sea.

This stone row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain - see their entry for Airigh Na Gaoithe, which includes photographs, a description, a plan of the row from a recent survey in August 2017, plus access information. The SRoBB notes that this is not an easy row to get to. "Whichever way you approach it from involves walking through boggy terrain and dodging around lochans … A couple of streams need to be jumped. I woul recommend wellingtons for this one … A decent map is essential".
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Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Plan of Airigh na Gaoithe stone row (Source: GPS survey by Sandy Gerrard) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 5 View from south (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 5 View from north west. Probable long cairn visible beyond (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 4 View from east. Stones 3 and 4 beyond (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 3 in the foreground and stone 2 beyond. View from east. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 3 View from west (Scale 1m).

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 3 View from east. Stone 2 in the background (Scale 1m).

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 2 View from west. Stone 3 is visible (Scale 1m).

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 2 View from south (Scale 1m).

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 2 View from east. Stone 1 is visible to the left of the ranging rod (Scale 1m).

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 1 View from west. Stone 2 is visible on the skyline (Scale 1m).

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 1 View from south (Scale 1m).

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stone 1 View from east (Scale 1m).

Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row
Airigh Na Gaoithe Stone Row submitted by SandyG : Stones 2, 3 and 4. View from south east.

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