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<< Our Photo Pages >> Scarista - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Isle of Harris
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Submitted by Anonymous on Thursday, 15 February 2001 Page Views: 5148
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Callanish
Site Name: Scarista Alternative Name: Borvemore
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Harris Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Tarbert Nearest Village: Scarista
Map Ref: NG02029392 Landranger Map Number: 18
Latitude: 57.835182N Longitude: 7.022453W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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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.
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 Scarista 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
 Scarista 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
 Scarista 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
 Scarista 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 Sc
 Scarista 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
 Scarista submitted by wallace
Site in Isle of Harris Scotland
 Scarista 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
 Scarista submitted by sithean
Scarista
NG020939
 Scarista submitted by sithean
NG020939
Scarista or Horgabost
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Re: Scarista (Score: 1)
by sithean on Monday, 12 April 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | Condition:3
Ambience:4
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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.
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