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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 657123
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/657123
NF87SE 14 8875 7176.
(Name : NF 8885 7172) Na Fir Bhreige (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
Na Fir Bhreige (the false men) is a row of three standing stones set almost in line upon a ridge which forms the west spur of Blashaval. None now stands more than three feet above the soil, and they are deeply embedded: the one in the middle appears to be the largest.
They are a subject of local tradition.
E Beveridge 1911.
Na Fir Bhreighe, three standing stones, at NF 8871 7177, NF 8875 7176 and NF 8877 7175, are as described by Beveridge.
From east to west their dimensions are 0.6m high x 0.4m x 0.3m, 0.5m high x 0.9m x 0.1m, and 0.7m high x 0.3m x 0.2m. The name is still known locally.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (N K B) 18 June 1965.
