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Submitted by Tom_Bullock on Thursday, 17 June 2004  Page Views: 9291

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Brevig Alternative Name: Druim A' Charra
Country: Scotland County: Barra and Vatersay Type: Standing Stones

Map Ref: NL689990  Landranger Map Number: 31
Latitude: 56.963234N  Longitude: 7.449831W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 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.
 3 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
 3

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SandyG visited on 15th Aug 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 3 There is no safe car parking available nearby. Parking is available at NL 67876 98704 but this involves a long walk along the road to NL 68966 98814. From here it is a short walk up the hill.

markj99 visited on 29th Jun 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Brevig includes a handsome standing stone and a nearby broken recumbent stone. It is sited on the slopes above Brevig close to a derelict building. Look out for a cup mark at c. 3ft on the E face of the standing stone.

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 5 Access: 3.5

Brevig
Brevig submitted by Tom_Bullock : Brevig, Barra (Vote or comment on this photo)
The OS Map shows 'Standing Stone' at these coordinates. The standing stone at this site is an impressive 10-feet tall, its flat face aligned NNW-SSE (azimuth = 160 degrees). An 8-foot stone lies broken into two or three pieces some 15-feet to the SE (azimuth = 130 degrees). There is a third stone along the same alignment some 50-feet further to the SE just appearing above ground level, but it is difficult to tell if it was a member of the original arrangement.
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Brevig submitted by bigsur : Brevig Standing Stone Isle of Barra Western Isles Scotland. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Brevig submitted by SandyG : View from the north west (Scale 1m). The recumbent stone is visible behind. The sea views from this site are spectacular. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Brevig 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)

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Brevig submitted by SandyG : Plan of Brevig stones. Upright stone shown dark grey, the recumbent yellow and smaller stones light grey. (Source: survey by Sandy Gerrard at 1:100). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Brevig submitted by SandyG : The rock outcrop which appears to have been mistaken for a third stone. View from south east.

Brevig
Brevig submitted by SandyG : View from south east (Scale 1m). Broken recumbent stone in the foreground.

Brevig
Brevig submitted by SandyG : The remaining upright stone stands close to a small building. View from west.

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Re: Brevig by Anonymous on Wednesday, 15 February 2006
My house is just at the left of the picture and just thought i should say maybe the stone is not that impressive even thought it is about 9 foot high the view is breath taking, and you would be able to see the great view if u bothered to take an actually good photo.
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Re: Brevig by Tom_Bullock on Thursday, 17 June 2004
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Since I travelled all the way to Barra just to photograph the two stone
rows on the island, I feel compelled to share this site with you. It is
not the most impressive of sites, but it does remind me that Ordnance
Survey is doing us a disfavor by not telling us accurately what is
present at a site shown on their maps. There is a big difference, to me,
between a ‘standing stone’ and a stone row, only one of whose members
are still standing. Since the very idea of a map is to show people what
they are going to find when they arrive at a particular spot, shouldn’t
there be some change to the current way of naming sites? The same can be
said of the use of the term ‘Standing stones’ for a site at which there
is clearly a stone circle, as dilapidated as it appears.
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