Featured: Explore Scotland (and everywhere else) with our Megalithic Portal iPhone app

Explore Scotland (and everywhere else) with our Megalithic Portal iPhone app

Random Image


Arthur's Stone

The Modern Antiquarian Reissued

The Modern Antiquarian Reissued

Who's Online

There are currently, 324 guests and 1 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Our Photo Pages >> Borvemore - Stone Row / Alignment in Scotland in Isle of Harris

Submitted by Anne T on Thursday, 15 February 2001  Page Views: 10410

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Borvemore
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Harris Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Tarbert  Nearest Village: Scarista
Map Ref: NG02029392  Landranger Map Number: 18
Latitude: 57.835182N  Longitude: 7.022453W
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:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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
0No data.
no data 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
5
Be the first person to rate this site - see the 'Contribute!' box in the right hand menu.

Internal Links:
External Links:

I have visited· I would like to visit

rrmoser visited on 29th Jun 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

SandyG visited on 8th Sep 2014 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 4

PAB tom_bullock have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 4

Borvemore
Borvemore 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)
Standing Stone in Harris. Near to this fine menhir are two prostrate slabs. These may have once been upright with all once forming part of a multi-menhir setting.

Recorded as Canmore ID 10546, their 1980 entry says: "Standing stone 186 x 97 x 17cm orientated NW/SE. 2 prostrate stones visible; one lies about 9m south of standing stone and is 126cm long, about 11m from the standing stone lies the second 230cm long and 7m E of the other prostrate stone.

This site is immediately adjacent to the sea to the west, just south of Borve with an alignment of 135 degrees and an altitude of 12 metres. The Stone Rows of Great Britain's entry for the nearby S46 Scarista, Harris stone row tells us "Further standing stones in the vicinity may represent the remains of a stone circle. It is possible that these stones are either entirely natural or were placed to form a boundary."

This site is approximately 43 km south south west of the Callanish Standing Stones.

(Amended 10th May 2016. Thanks to the Anonymous member who posted the original information and Sandy G and 'The Stone Rows Of Great Britain' for the updated information).
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by pab : Evening spiral...at sunset minus 23 minutes, this lovely spiral was visible. Almost as if the stone's energies were drifting up into the clouds! 8 May 2011 (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by pab : Looking north, across the water separating Taransay from Isle of Harris. NB - no changes made in these colours in preparation or posting! On the odd occasion we had sun, the Western Isles really did look superb. Date of visit: 8 May 2011 (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by pab : Golden silhouette at Scarista. As with the other photos from here, no changes have been made to any colours or other settings in the posting of these images! 8 May 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by wallace : Site in Isle of Harris Scotland (Vote or comment on this photo)

Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by pab : Scarista is believed to have been a full circle, rather than the single standing stone. It may have been rather special in terms of its alignment at sunset. When I was researching locations to visit in the Western Isles, I came across a site called starsofwonder, which had some wonderful photos, and I asked its editor for suggestions. As a result, I offered to try and capture the sunset at ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Borvemore
Borvemore 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

Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by sithean : Scarista NG020939

Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by Antonine : Myself at Scarista, first visit May 2019 (1 comment)

Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by scottish-prints : Scarista and one of the west coast of Harris's amazing beaches.

Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by SandyG : A pronounced mound north of the standing stone may represent a barrow. View from north.

Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by SandyG : View from above and south of standing stone and pair of recumbent stones.

Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by pab : As if the evening and sunset hadn't been pretty special, up came the moon to round off the day! Actually - does anyone else think this looks like a polar bear looking up at the moon? 8 May 2011

Borvemore
Borvemore submitted by sithean : NG020939 Scarista or Horgabost

Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.
Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive OS map

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.

Stones of Wonder by Robert Pollock


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 158m E 94° S46 Scarista* Stone Row / Alignment (NG0217793898)
 1.4km E 82° Dun Borve (nr Scarista)* Broch or Nuraghe (NG034940)
 3.8km NE 41° Coire Na Feinne* Chambered Cairn (NG0471896628)
 3.9km NNE 28° Clach Mhic Leoid* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NG04109718)
 5.6km WSW 238° Rubh' an Teampuill, Toe Head* Broch or Nuraghe (NF97019133)
 5.7km WSW 238° Harris, Rubh' An Teampuill* Rock Art (NF96969129)
 6.7km SSW 197° Rubha Charnain* Rock Art (NF996877)
 6.9km N 350° Clach An Teampuill (Taransay)* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NB01280077)
 8.1km SSW 205° Ensay Rock Art (NF981868)
 8.2km SSW 204° Taigh Easaigh Standing Stone Standing Stone (Menhir) (NF9804186677)
 8.7km S 176° Dun Innisgall Stone Fort or Dun (NG01948521)
 11.0km SSE 160° Dun Rodil Broch or Nuraghe (NG05018330)
 11.1km SSE 163° Roghadal (Rodel) Stone Circle (NG045831)
 14.2km WSW 255° Bhruist (Shillay) Stone Circle (NF880913)
 14.7km SW 217° Bhruist Stone Circle* Stone Circle (NF92418279)
 15.4km SW 215° Cnoc na Greana* Stone Row / Alignment (NF9230781876)
 16.7km SW 218° Sgalabraig* Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House) (NF90718153)
 17.0km SW 215° Cladh Maolrithe* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NF91218068)
 19.4km N 354° Loch Crabhadail* Ancient Village or Settlement (NB01401333)
 20.1km SW 215° Port nan Long Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House) (NF892784)
 20.1km SW 214° Crois Mhic Jamain* Stone Row / Alignment (NF89397820)
 20.4km SSW 213° Dun an Sticir* Broch or Nuraghe (NF897776)
 20.7km SSW 211° Beinn A Chaolais Stone Circle (NF900770)
 21.1km S 187° Dun Mhic Laitheann Stone Fort or Dun (NF9778873187)
 22.8km SW 214° Dun Rosail Stone Fort or Dun (NF87837595)
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Winterbourne Stoke

Callanish 4 >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Caithness Archaeology: Aspects of Prehistory

Caithness Archaeology: Aspects of Prehistory

Web Links for Borvemore

Stones of Wonder by Robert Pollock

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Borvemore" | Login/Create an Account | 4 News and Comments
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Scarista more likely to have been a stone circle by Andy B on Saturday, 30 December 2017
(User Info | Send a Message)
Canmore says:

A standing stone (6' 7" high), which seems to have formed part of a stone circle, as four other pillar stones lie prostrate near it. These have all been removed from their original position, and their present arrangement gives no indication of the size of the circle.

https://canmore.org.uk/site/10546/harris-borvemore

Thanks to Sandy G for pointing this out
[ Reply to This ]

Re: Scarista by Anne T on Tuesday, 10 October 2017
(User Info | Send a Message)
Now that S46 Scarista has been added, the photographs for this new site were also coming up on this page. The Canmore entry for this grid reference (10546) calls this 'Borvermore' which was originally alternative name for this site, so I've renamed this site and all the related photographs Borvermore, as there are quite a few 'Scarista' sites which could be added in future (S56 Scarista, S60 Scarista, etc, etc). Hope this is OK.
[ Reply to This ]

Scarista Street View by Andy B on Thursday, 22 September 2011
(User Info | Send a Message)

View Larger Map

Originally found by Coldrum
[ Reply to This ]

Re: Scarista by sithean on Monday, 12 April 2004
(User Info | Send a Message)
Condition:3
Ambience:4
Access:4
How to find : The stone is in a field 3km south of Horgabost, and is visible on the west side of the road. (Site sometimes also referred to as Sgarasta 'Borvemore'.)
This fine 2m tall slab has two fallen stones close by, one of which may have formed an alignment with it. Like Clach Mhicleod at Horgabost, this stone has a flat face and points out to sea.
The azimuth of 301.0° with a sea horizon of -0.1° gives a declination of +16.5°. This is the declination of the sun close the Scottish Quarter days of Whitsun (in May) and Lammas (in August).It is also in direct line with the Clach Mhic Leoid Standing Stone.
There have been lot of finding in the area from pottery to bones and metal objects.
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.