<< Our Photo Pages >> Pobull Fhinn - Stone Circle in Scotland in North Uist
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pobull Fhinn Alternative Name: Ben LangassCountry: Scotland County: North Uist Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Loch Maddy Nearest Village: Barpa Langass
Map Ref: NF84286502 Landranger Map Number: 18
Latitude: 57.564549N Longitude: 7.282072W
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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rrmoser visited on 30th Jun 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4
SandyG visited on 27th Aug 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
markj99 visited on 1st Jul 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 North Uist is a remote island but conversely Pobull Fhinn Stone Circle is relatively easy to visit. There is a road to Langass Lodge off the A867 (c. 250 yards SW of Barpa Langass Car Park). A path from Langass Lodge heads NW for c. 450 yards to Pobull Fhinn Stone Circle.
MegalithJunkie visited on 1st May 1997 - their rating: Amb: 5
ravensidhe visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4
Bladup PAB jeffrep tom_bullock have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.25 Ambience: 4.8 Access: 4
The views all around were incredible. (In fact it was Aubrey Burl's description which really made us make the effort to get there - he said it had one of the loveliest settings of any circle and he was right.) The weather was actually a lot brighter than the pictures would lead you to believe - it was my timing that was at fault! We stayed there for hours and hours and had one of the most memorable visits to a circle that we've ever had. In fact we very nearly missed the ferry back, but were saved by a timely lift from some local people who got us to the dock just in time. Definitely worth the effort (a total of about 1.5 miles walk from the road) and the cost (the ferry was about œ7 return). We can't wait to go back.
Access: Situated on North Uist, near Loch Langass. We got the ferry from Leverburgh, on Harris, to Newtonferry (a.k.a. Otternish - this caused some confusion, as Caledonian Macbrayne, the ferry company, refer to it as Otternish, while all the maps we had called the place Newtonferry. when we pointed this out to one of the ferry crew, he smiled and said "Oh, so you noticed then.".) From the ferry, it was about a ten mile bus ride - the bus doesn't have a particularly strict timetable and it will usually wait until the ferry has arrived before setting off. The driver let us off near the site; there's not a bus stop as such, but most people know where things are and the best way to approach them so it's always worth asking. Situated on the other side of the hill from Barpa Langass.
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