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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pobull Fhinn - Stone Circle in Scotland in North Uist

Submitted by Alastair_Fletcher on Sunday, 11 February 2001  Page Views: 17025

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pobull Fhinn Alternative Name: Ben Langass
Country: 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:
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.
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.
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
4

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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

Pobull Fhinn
Pobull Fhinn submitted by jeffrep : Site in North Uist Pobull Fhinn Overlooking Loch Langais with Ben Eval is the Distance, No. Uist, Western Isles, Scotland (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone Circle in North Uist. Situated on the other side of the hill from Barpa Langass; you have a choice of going over the top (difficult, but probably rewarding) or round the side (easier but longer). The circle is built on an artificial platform created by digging away part of the side of the hill, and depositing the excavated earth on the lower part of the slope, thus making a (fairly) level surface. It's the sort of detail I would have missed, but when you look at the scale of the site and realise the engineering involved in building a level platform out of the side of a hill, you can't fail to be impressed. The circle itself is a pointy egg shape (technically speaking) and is about 60 feet across its longest axis. It was quite overgrown with bracken when we visited - some stones were virtually hidden. There are some good-sized stones here the largest of which is about 5 feet high. It's the setting of the whole site, though, that really takes your breath away; hence the panoramic photos.

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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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Postman : This place and Barpa langass were at the very top of my wish list, I must have been a very good boy. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Flickr : Pobull Finn, North Uist Site in North Uist Scotland The c4,000 year old stone circle is the largest on North Uist. I loved this spot with its windswept loneliness and wide views of the "drowned landscape" of North Uist. A real highlight of the trip Image copyright: Gareth L Evans (Gareth Evans), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pobull Fhinn 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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Pobull Fhinn submitted by © Alistair Fletcher : Picture © by Alastair Fletcher and Jocasta Barrett. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Bladup : Pobull Fhinn stone circle. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Bladup

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by pab : General view of the platform on which the circle has been erected - the path on the left leads over the top of Beinn Langais to the chambered cairn known as Barpa Langais. May 2011 (1 comment)

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by pab : Built on a artificial platform, leveling, this oval 'circle' is described in early RCAHms reports as being 122ft E-W and 100ft N-S. The reports state that there are 23 or 24 stones in total, but the amount of heather/bracken at the time of our visit meant that only the larger ones were visible. May 2011

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by jeffrep : Site in North Uist Tallest Stone (right) Near Portalled Entrance, Pobull Fhinn, No. Uist, Western Isles, Scotland

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Pobull Fhinn 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.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by SandyG : View from above and west. The artificial platform on which the stone circle was erected is obvious from this angle.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by SandyG : View from above and north east.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by SandyG : View from above and east.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Postman : Ever had an itch you couldn't scratch, well I've had this one for about twenty years , god it's good to scratch that itch.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Postman : Portalled entrance on the east side.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Postman : Eastern entrance portal stones lower left.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Postman : Site in North Uist Scotland

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Postman : Looking up to the west entrance stones.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Postman : Stones outside the embankment on the south side of the circle.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Postman : Looking through the western entrance across the circle to Eaval.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Bladup : Pobull Fhinn stone circle.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Bladup

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by Bladup : Pobull Fhinn stone circle at sunset.

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Pobull Fhinn submitted by jeffrep : Site in North Uist View of Pobull Fhinn from the Side of Beinn Langais, No. Uist, Western Isles, Scotland

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Re: Directions to Pobull Fhinn by markj99 on Saturday, 24 December 2022
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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.
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