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The Busta StoneStanding Stone / Menhir
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Visited 11.6.12 After enjoying a rather nice fish supper in Frankie’s (the most northern chippie in Britain) there was just time to go and have a look at the Busta Stone. This is a very large prominent stone which can be seen from a distance. We parked next to the field in which the stone resides and a quick hop over the metal field gate and I was up close and personal. The field was full of sheep with lambs who didn’t seem too pleased to see me there as they were using it as a rubbing post! This is an attractive stone – looks like it has white ‘pebble dash’ with black speckles. It is also covered in that light green ‘hairy’ lichen I have seen so much of over the last two weeks. There are great views over the loch and down the valley. |
Posted by CARL 19th July 2012ce |
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'what a highlight, this stone is absolutely enormous. roughly 5' by 6' square and 10' tall. balanced by a pile of small rocks at its base. broad and oddly shaped; gargantuan compared with the other stones in this area. it seems not to fit in with those other themes going on on this island [except for the standing stone at Yamna Field, Gluss]. overlooking Busta Voe, the town of Brae, out toward the open sea (which you can't see), looking upon so many peaks. a smaller pyramidal stone, a couple of feet tall, just downhill from it' -12 March 2002 |
Posted by FlopsyPete 30th April 2002ce Edited 29th November 2003ce |
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Not far from the house of Busta, is a large stone of granite, that appears as erect as if it had been fixed there by art. Not improbably it was a large boulder-stone, brought thither by natural causes, and placed in an upright position, as the memorial of some battle or death of a chief. It is supposed by the vulgar to have been thrown there by the Devil from some hill in Northmavine.From 'A description of the Shetland Islands' by Samuel Hibbert (1822). |
Posted by Rhiannon26th July 2012ce |
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This stone was thrown by the giant of Papa Stour at the giant of Mavis Grind. It weighs about 20 tons. (from Grinsell's folklore of prehistoric sites) |
Posted by Rhiannon 12th September 2003ce Edited 12th September 2003ce |
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