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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Loch Seaforth Alternative Name: Sìdeval
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Lewis Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Stornoway  Nearest Village: Arivruaich
Map Ref: NB2782216637  Landranger Map Number: 13
Latitude: 58.055003N  Longitude: 6.615482W
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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
0No data.
2 Accuracy:
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
0no data
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Loch Seaforth
Loch Seaforth submitted by steveco : Loch Seaforth Stone Circle NB278166. Incorporated into later, now ruined, structure. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone Circle in Lewis

Tom Bullock reports: Stone circle of diameter 56' comprising 2 standing stones, about 5 feet tall, together with several other prostrate stones.
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Loch Seaforth
Loch Seaforth submitted by Tom_Bullock : Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM (Vote or comment on this photo)

Loch Seaforth
Loch Seaforth submitted by Tom_Bullock (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
NB2816 : Ruin on shore of Loch Seaforth, Isle of Lewis by Robert Bone
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NB2817 : The Eisgein road by Dave Fergusson
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NB2816 : Detail of commemorative stone at Ceann Shpoirt by Dave Fergusson
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NB2816 : Commemorative stone at Ceann Shpoirt by Dave Fergusson
by Dave Fergusson
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Re: Loch Seaforth by DavidHoyle on Monday, 24 February 2020
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[Okay, thanks David, now up-dated. Admins] I think this is Isle of Lewis and not Isle of Harris
David
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Largest wind turbines on land proposed for Lewis by Andy B on Wednesday, 09 May 2018
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Largest wind turbines on land proposed for Lewis

Community wind farm campaigners reacted with outrage to EDF’s scaled-up ambitions.

Calum Macdonald, former Western Isles MP and developer of Point and Sandwick Trust’s Beinn Ghrideag scheme, said: “The size of the proposed new turbines being considered by EDF is simply staggering.

ENORMOUS

“These are the same size as the gigantic offshore turbines that are now being built in the North Sea.

“They are out to sea for a good reason which is that their enormous size is thought to make them unacceptable anywhere onshore, far less near a town like Stornoway or near an iconic location like Loch Seaforth.

More at
http://www.hebrideswriter.com/2018/04/30/edf-plan-offshore-size-turbines-in-stornoway-and-eishken/

and

https://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/news/largest-wind-turbines-on-land-proposed-for-lewis-1-4732879
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Loch Seaforth alignments? by Andy B on Tuesday, 27 March 2018
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A look at the relationship between the Loch Seaforth stones (down by the loch over to the right behind the houses) and the Cailleach na Mointeach peak to the other side of the loch (and the 'knees' of the 'sleeping beauty' feature)
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=21417

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https://goo.gl/maps/z5fGfXNkZLq

Map:
https://www.bing.com/maps?setmkt=en-gb&cp=58.0360091679~-6.62283141196&lvl=15&style=s&sp=point.58.0360091679_-6.62283141196_Cailleach%20na%20Mointeach%20Kerbed%20Cairn

Draw a line from the summits at 401m, through the 365m summit (where the cairn is) and it goes through the Loch Seaforth stones. Also the 387m and 237m summits point across the widest part of the loch towards the stones. Interesting no?
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Re: Loch Seaforth by Andy B on Monday, 26 March 2018
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Grahame Gardner writes of his visit to Loch Seaforth in 2006: I thought that Goddess had finished with us, but she had one more encounter up her sleeve. On our route south to the ferry we made a detour to look at a little ruined stone circle on the shore of Loch Seaforth, right in the shadow of the Sleeping Beauty. Only two obvious standing stones remained; the rest seemed to be built into the walls of a ruined house. It served as a poignant reminder that our relationship with megalithic sites was not always as enlightened as it is today; in the relatively recent past they were just a handy source of building stone.

On our return to the car, parked by a house at the end of the road, an old crone in traditional housecoat and slippers emerged to greet us. This was Mary Kate MacLennan, a 100-year-old widow who lives on her own beside the loch, almost three miles from the main road. She invited us, three complete strangers, into her house and told us stories about her hard life and her family, and was almost in tears as she reminisced about the sadder episodes of her past. Her birthday card from the Queen was proudly displayed on the window ledge, nestling amongst her other photographs and memorabilia. I felt sure she was just about to offer us some tea and scones when the phone rang and interrupted her, whereupon we took our leave. But not before she made sure that we had her address so we could write to her. “Everybody knows me”, she said. “I’m the Cailleach of the Lochs”.

I smiled. Goddess had given us her final blessing. It was time to go home.

Read more at
https://westerngeomancy.org/articles/the-song-of-the-low-moon-2006/
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Re: Loch Seaforth by Andy B on Wednesday, 11 October 2017
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Canmore: Callanish 26, prehistoric stone circle. The site of this scheduled monument was planned and a theodolite survey of the horizon was undertaken. The standing stone circle is 16.6m in diameter and seems to have consisted of 10 stones (PSAS 1935, 124-6). The stones are, clockwise: one free-standing in field; three incorporated in field wall, two upright and middle one leaning; one upright in N wall of blackhouse; probably two upright within E wall of blackhouse, indicated by bulges in internal face of wall; two displaced and incorporated in faces of S wall of blackhouse; and one fallen in field.

Partial dismantling, by a person or persons unknown, of the earth and stone banks around three of the stones took place in 2006.

Lots more information at
https://canmore.org.uk/site/4135/lewis-loch-seaforth
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Re: Loch Seaforth by Andy B on Tuesday, 16 August 2016
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More photos here (can be moved and added)
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/mm/bigpic13/
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Re: Loch Seaforth by Anonymous on Monday, 26 July 2004
Condition:destroyed
Ambience:5
Access:2

After rattling along a not unreasonable track a vehicle can be parked near an occupied farm building and the site can be accessed via the shore or along a fence. The resident I met had no objection to my accessing the site across the area, even though I had to navigate across a makeshift sheep pen for 2. You will be less lickley to miss the site if the fence is followed. As Stevecos' photo shows, the site is built into a ruined building, contemporary with or later is the question. Local archeologists are divided as to whether sites such as these have been stone circles or if the locals made use of any stones found.
The loch view is worth the effort though.
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