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05/09/2021 – Early morning bus from Stromness. Just us and the stones for a while on a sunny Sunday morning, pretty magic.
12 April 2017 CE
12 April 2017 CE
Photo taken on 21st June 2017 at 4.17 am, about 10 minutes after sunrise.
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Here comes the sun! Photo taken at sunrise on the summer solstice, 4.17 am, 21st June 2017.
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Stenness May 2017
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Stones of Stenness with Hoy in the background May 2017
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Another one of those strange Scottish ‘trapezoid’ stones.
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Stones of Stenness on a brief moment of clear skies
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Stenness aurora
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view from open-top T11 double decker bus
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Panorama of the whole site.
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Minimalist masterpiece.
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A bit like a gun sight.
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Sort of ancient and modern at the same time.
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There are standing stones... and then there’s The Standing Stones of Stenness. Thought this was a rather unusual angle.
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Standing Stones of Stenness on a bleak December day
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Encaustic watercolor by Anne Mavor
20” x 48”
www.annemavor.com
Image credit: Mum with Stenness Stone
Photo taken 14th August 2013. Amazing skies over Stenness.
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‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney’ 68p stamp 2005
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17/06/2013 – The Standing Stones of Stenness. Late afternoon and as we arrived the sun came out to shine on the stones. Left me speechless for the second time that day!
Stones of Stenness on a gloriously sunny day
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archive.org/stream/rudestonemonumen00ferg#page/n7/mode/2up
(hoping this is in the right place)
Image credit: From 'Rude Stone Monuments' by James Fergusson (1872).
Taken on 11th August 2012, the glorious sunshine over Stenness throws long shadows.
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view from edge of Standing Stones Hotel grounds
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sheer perfection
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two fingers to the sky
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From Munro 1899
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Postcard
Posted 1962
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Postcard
Date Unknown
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The stone had the most wonderful natural pattern, like a wet beach when the tide has just gone out.
Sept 2009
Teed up....
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The grooving stone.....
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How thin are these stones?
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The whole circle.
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Image credit: Chris Lodge
view from Clouston road above Kirkwall-Stromness road
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view from central feature of Ring of Brodgar, with Wasbister hill backdrop
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central ‘hearth’ feature
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entire henge from modern path into site
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north-eastern corner of henge earthwork
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eastern side of henge earthwork
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almost entire circle platform showing also bank and ditch
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view along eastern side of henge bank with Watch Stone visible at left. Kokna Cumming mound is light patch right of front cottage, Brodgar stone pair is further along in between front and rear right cottage with Ness of Brodgar excavation behind buildings. In original image at full mag I can just, on my PC, make out the Ring of Bookan and Bookan cairns on the skyline beyond the mound
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stennes
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Taken during a long slow mid – winter dawn.
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Sunset at Stenness. Taken 4 days after getting married at Calanais. What a honeymoon.
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As seen in Dr Robert Munro’s ‘Prehistoric Scotland’ (1899)
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The big slab up close with the midday sun on it. The sheer height, unbelievable texture, and crisp light of this northern sky give you vertigo before you know it. More on users.skynet.be/bert_saskia/travel/scotland/northernatlantic/index1.html
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Stenness Mist.
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Taken by my daughter 26 Aug 05. Strange ‘mist‘
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Approaching from the road – ‘cove’ left of RH stone
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All the remaining stones, with the ‘cove’ in the foreground
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The famous large stones with Brogar visible on left horizon and the Watch Stone left of RH stone – what a complex is, esp if imagined without the buildings and with all the stones left!
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The ‘cove’ with the (strangely to me) controversial angled stone in the foreground
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Maeshowe through ‘cove’ stones
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The ‘cove’ with the Watch stone right next to it, thanks to big lens!
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Amazing how little sign there is of what was once a substantial henge – this is the most noticeable bit (Watch Stone in background)
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June 2004. View from the standing stones hotel.
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June 2004.
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June 2004. I believe there’s some question as to whether this stone was part of the orignal setting. It is neat though.
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June 2004. What’s the relationship with Hoy?
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June 2004
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This picture was taken on a wet day in 2001. The stones are truely impressive and at one point we had to shelter behind one due to the ferocity of the wind and rain.
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Taken August 1997: Posted for Pete G, here’s the OS mark on one of the Stennes stones along with some other strange etchings. Sorry, I’m not certain which stone this is.
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Taken August 1997: We liked this photo so much that we’ve hung a huge copy of it in our living room.
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Taken August 1997 the day after I proposed to Louise at Stennes.
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Stars Dived In Blinding Skies – September 3rd 2000
12/8/96
12/8/96-with me in the distance next to one of the large monoliths (great stone/bad pose!). Oh- and nice sheep in the foreground :)
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12/8/96
12/8/96-the setting of the two smaller stones
12/8/96
Under a brooding sky, rain moved off and left us at stennes with brilliant sunshine.
In Awe.
Sept 2000
I cannot describe my excitement at seeing Sundown at Stennes. I have been to stacks of sites, many I want to re-visit, but none so much as this place.
Less than 24 hours later, I would drop my digital camera and spend the rest of the week unable to capture the fantastic sights and sites of the Orkneys.
A truely wondrous place
Orcadian sunset with silhouetted stones foreground.
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Articles
Visited 11th August 2012
We’ve visited Stenness several times already on this trip to Orkney, but on our way back to Kirkwall after a trip to Hoy, the glorious sunshine was too tempting and so we called in at the stones.
The first time you approach the stones the scale of them hits you, along with their amazing tapering shapes. As the afternoon sun casts long shadows the megaliths look as if they could be an art installation or sculpture park, so forward thinking was the selection and placement of the stones. The good weather has brought other tourists out, and the interior of the circle has somewhat of a festival atmosphere as children play at the base of the stones whilst a man gently strums a mandola and couples hand in hand stroll around the circle. It feels joyous and it is.
The heavily denuded remains of the henge around the circle is still visible, and from the centre the hills of Hoy dominate the horizon as I gaze west. When once a full complement of stones stood around the circle you can only imagine the impact this place would have had in the heart of the most sacred area on Orkney. Its just a pity that eejits such as W. Mackay (a ‘ferry-louper’ if ever there was one) did such damage to the site in 1814.
Stenness though is such an iconic site, and normally one of the first places I stop when arriving on Orkney, it’s got special memories for me, and continues to call me back, and I’m sure anyone who visits will feel its call too..
Visited 4.6.12
I won’t bother to describe the stones in any detail as it has already been done by many others before me. All I would say is that they are a lot taller in real life than they appear in photos.
They are certainly the best standing stones I have ever seen which make up a stone circle.
I visited the stones several times during my week on Orkney as they are so worthy a visit, so easy to visit and you tend to pass then whilst going to other sites around Orkney.
The first time I visited was under a cloudless evening when I had the place to myself.
I also visited in the rain and biting wind when I had coach loads of people for company!
A good way to see the stones is sat in the window of the ice cream parlour!
(The Orkney coconut ice cream is probably the best I have ever tasted – you, yum!)
This is an obvious ‘must see’.
Approach to the Stones of Stenness during a field trip to Orkney in April 2010, it was BALTIC!!!, that said Stenness, & Brodgar almost made it worthwhile. Imuch prefer these sites in the warmth though like I did months later.
It was a typical Orkney day in-so-much as the weather changed constantly and the wind was howling. Living where I do, I am used to REALLY windy weather but still found it exhilarating and was just amazed by how big the sky was. The flatness of the landscape and the ferocity of the wind was just fabulous. When we got to the stones, we were giddy with the sheer beauty of it all and ran round like a group of school children at playtime! Again, these are stones I have seen many times on TV and read about, so finally seeing them up close and personal was just amazing. I knew all about how slender some of the stones are; we have all seen pictures where they look like they are made out of balsa wood and are about to break in two, but was I was not aware of was how beautifully patterned the actual stone was. What must this have looked like when it was a complete circle, with 12 stones standing proud, instead of just the four that remain?
Videod the site yesterday, first round the whole site then circling the indivisual elements. and observed that most components had an orientation to the Bigswell area (where there used to be a Johnsmas fire on the hillside) – do the alignments we recognise for such places hold primacy or does survival and/or our perception of significance affect our judgement ?
This didn’t immediately ‘wow’ me like I thought it would. It wasn’t that I was disappointed exactly but I didn’t get that ‘buzz’. It was only when I got up very close to the individual stones, particularly the really wafer thin one, that this place excited me. The angle of the top of each stone was thrilling and had a really angry graphic quality.
I was surprised by the little henge it was in, which seemed too small for the height and sharpness of the stones. My God! When all the stones were up it must’ve been quite an intimidating sight!
These stones live up to the hype. The flat flagstone means that as you walk around the site, each stone presents a continouously changing aspect. The combination of the three tallest makes the number of angles even greater.
It seemes that the stones have a distinct relationship with the hills of Hoy, which are rather prominent throughout the whole area.
We visited Orkney in July 1997, and made straight for Stennes and Brodgar when we arrived. I was immensely moved by Stennes, which must have once been the most significant megalithic site on Orkney, and still is the most beautiful. The vibes the place gave off were only comparable to Calanais on Lewis.
I proposed to Louise at Stennes, because it seemed like the right place to do it. Five years on I want to go back there and see the stones again. Perhaps we’ll make it soon, with our son William and our, as yet, un-born child [Alfie].
I can’t believe how few people have posted information to this part of the Web site. If you’re considering a trip to Orkney, I can say with all honesty that, for me at least, Stennes justified the trip in itself.
Stones of Stenness, Orkney Mainland
Monday 12/8/96
Today we visited loads of sites including Maes Howe, Ring of Brodgar, Skara Brae etc, but of all the places we ventured today the Stones of Stenness were the most impressive- they were just daunting! They were absolutely enormous and so beautifully shaped with their amazing sloping tops. Apart from the three huge monoliths there is also a fabulous setting of two smaller stones set next to each other only about 20 or 30 cm apart that just demand getting down to look through em. Directly in front of these two is a horizontal slab that just feels like some sort of ‘altar’ stone. Two other stones next to these complete the setting that just blew me away. It was quite quiet when we visited so I went back to the car and got me dowsing rods out and did a spot- unsurprisingly there was a lot of powerful energies around this amazing place.
Several eighteenth- and nineteenth- century sources describe ceremonies performed at the Ring Of Brodgar and the Stones Of Stenness. On the first day of the New Year, young people of the neighbourhood used to meet at the Kirk of Stenness, taking enough food with them to last four or five days. Pairs of lovers would then leave the rest of the party and go to the Stones Of Stenness, known as the Temple Of The Moon, where women would pray to Odin that he would enable them to perform the promises they made to the men; after that the couples would go to the Temple Of the Sun (the Ring Of Brodgar) where the men made similar prayers. They would then go the Stone of Odin, a standing stone with a round hole in it through which the couples would clasp hands and plight their troth,
‘a pledge of love which to them was as sacred as a marriage vow’.
The Archaeologia Scotica (1792) records the case of a young man who had got a girl pregnant then deserted her:
The young man was then called before the session; the elders were particularly severe. Being asked by the minister the cause of so much rigour, they answered, you do not know what a bad man this is; he has broke the promise of Odin, they put him in mind of the Stone at Stenhouse with the round hole in it; and added, that it was customary, when promises were made, for the contracting parties to join hands through this hole, and the promises made were called the promises of Odin.
It was further said that a child passed through the hole when young would never shake with palsy in old age. When visiting the stone it was customary to leave an offering of bread, cheese, a piece of cloth, or a pebble.
The Ring Of Brodgar and Stones Of Stenness can still be seen, although many of the stones have fallen and are embedded in the ground. The Stone Of Odin, however, was removed in around 1814 by a farmer, not a native of Orkney, who was annoyed by the number of visitors coming to see it. He is said to have used the stone to build a cow-house, and although no supernatural punishment is reported to have followed, two unsuccessful attempts were made by aggrieved neighbours to set fire to his property.
The Lore Of Scotland – A Guide To The Legends Of Scotland
Westwood & Kingshill
Tales From Eynhallow by Thelma Nicol
STANDING STONES
Mammy! Mammy!” Whut wey did that big stones git there?” Peedie Davo tugged at his mother’s sleeve. His mother was tired of Davo’s never ending questions about the great pieces of stone that formed the familiar landscape by the Loch of Stenness she promised, that if he was good she would tell him at bedtime, hoping that by that time he would have forgotten. She had not reckoned with peedie Davo’s determination to get an answer to his question.
“You promised Mammy,” he whispered as she tucked him up in bed. “Whut wey did they git there?” His mother shook her head and sat down wearily on the stool by his bedside. “Weel,” she began, “hid wis a long time ago and I canna mind the rights o’ hid bit hid wis afore the Norsemen cam tae Orkney, so they must be thoosands o’ years ould.”
“Oulder than Grandad?” Davo enquired, looking across the lobby where his Grandfather drowsed by the fire in the kitchen.
“Oh yass, far oulder than Grandad. There wisna many folk bade in Orkney at the time. All the folk lived doon sooth thoo see’s. They say that t he standing stones reach doon intae the grund twice as far as they stand abune hid .”
“Whut wey did they git doon there then I winder?” Peedie Davo’s enquiry into the origin of the Standing Stones of Stenness was proving to be more of a problem than his mother had ever imagined.
“Well,” she struggled on, “shut thee eyes like a good boy noo, and I’ll tell thee.” With fingers crossed that he would soon fall asleep she began. “Hid wis a midsummer’s night . The day hid been hot an quiet, not the usual breezy kind o’ wither that we usually hiv in June. The sky wis somet imes owercast and a rumble o’ thunder cam fae the direction o’ Hoy. There wis great flashes o’ lightning. A’ the birds wir quiet and the twa three folk that lived aboot hands wir huddled taegither. The bairns were a sleepan snug and warm under thir sealskin blankets.”
Peedie Davo’s mother paused and glanced hopefully at her small son. “Did the thunder come again Mammy?” he asked.?
“Oh yass,” she answered. “More thunder and rain like they have niver seen the like o’ afore or since. Suddenly there wis a great flash o’ lightning and the grund roond aboot Stenness wis thrown up like hid wis an earthquake. Some o’ the big stones landed upright and the grund fell back and filled up the holes except whar the Loch is noo. It filled up wae the rain water and so there’s been a loch there ever since and nobody’s ever bothered tae shift the stones so they are still there too. The twa three folk that hid lived in Stenness at that time wir thrown up in the air bit they landed in Stromness and decided to stay there. And that‘s the weyt here’s more folk in Stromness than in Stenness.”
There was a gentle snore from the bed and a sigh from peedie Davo’s mother as she whispered: “Whit a lot o’ lees thee mither tells thee Davo. Bit the truth is she disno ken whut wey the stones cam tae be there and nither dis anybody else. Goodnight Davo!”
The monuments at Stenness held an important part in Orcadian wedding customs over a long period as relayed by the Rev George Low in 1774.
“There was a custom among the lower class of people in this country which has entirely subsided within these twenty or thirty years. Upon the first day of every new year the common people, from all parts of the country, met at the Kirk of Stennis, each person having provision for four or five days; they continued there for that time dancing and feasting in the kirk. This meeting gave the young people an opportunity of seeing each other, which seldom failed in making four or five marriages every year; and to secure each other’s love they had resource to the following solemn engagements:- The parties agreed stole from the rest of their companions and went to the Temple of the Moon, where the woman, in the presence of the man, fell on her knees and prayed to the god Woden (for such was the name of the god they addressed on this occasion) that he would enable her to perform all the promises and obligations she had and was to make to the young man present, after which they both went to the Temple of the Sun, where the man preyed in a like manner before the woman, then they repaired back to the [Odin] stone, and the man being on one side, and the woman on the other, they took hold of each other’s right hand through the hole, and there swore to be constant and faithful to each other. This ceremony was held so very sacred in those times that the person who dared to break the engagement made here was counted infamous and excluded from all society.”
From ‘A Tour Through the Islands of Orkney & Shetland, containing Hints relative to their Ancient, Modern and Natural History’ by Rev. G. Low 1774
William Wilson was told in the 1840s that the stones had been moved here by the mytes [sic]. He believed these to be spirits, and I think mytes is a reference to the bible’s “Mighty that were of old” in the plural.
“The belief is found throughout the Celtic territories that certain Standing Stones, set in motion by the spirits which animate them, sometimes go to drink in river or lake. In Orkney, one such Stone was said to walk from the Circle to the Loch of Stennis regularly on Hogmanay, dip it’s head into the Loch, and return to its old position. The story goes that a sailor once seated himself on the Stone some time before midnight in order to test the truth of the legend, and the next morning his dead body was found half-way between the Circle and the Loch”
From “The Silver Bough Volume 1: Scottish Folklore and Folk-Belief” by F.Marian McNeill, 1957 page 87.
“The stone circles of the Orkneys had similar traditions:in 1703, Martin Martin wrote that the stone circles at Stenness and Brodgar were ‘believed to have been Places design’d to offer Sacrifice in time of Pagan Idolatry; and for this reason the People called them the Ancient temples of the Gods.’ An engraving made in 1823 of the Ring of Stenness, known then as the Temple of the Moon, shows a woman hallowing her promise of betrothal at the stones.”
From “Celtic Sacred Landscapes” by Nigel Pennick 1996, page 53.
There were once more stones than those in the circle
1760 “There are two standing to the South, one is wanting, and there are two stones standing, a third lying down, then three are wanting, there being a space of 27 yards so that there were eight in all : Eighteen yards South East from the circle is a single stone, and 124 yards to the East of that is another [Odin Stone] with a hole in one side towards the bottom, from which going to the circle is another [stone] 73 yards from the fossee [sic], the outer part of which fossee is 16 yards from the circle” and as this was summertime I guess stumps lay hidden in the grass.
Low ~1774 “”[Stones of Stenness] The drawing shows the stones in their present state, which is four entire and one broken [??recumbent]. It is not ditched about like ... [Ring of Brodgar]..but surrounded with a raised mound partly raised on the live earth, as the other was cut from it... near the circle are several stones set on end without any regular order, or several of them so much broken, hinder us as to the design of them.“”
It seems that sometime between 1760 and 1842 several were nudged and then between 1842 and Thomas visit several were destroyed as described. His disbelief arises because he only knew of the circle itself. One of the external stones was a companion to the Watchstone on the other side of the road and further from it, a fat ?recumbent still there in 1842.
1842 “Stones of Stennis... in one case in a vast circle surrounded by a mount, in the other in insulated groups of two or three together, either forming parts of an approach to the circle, or themselves the sole remnants of other corresponding circles...
none of them is very thick in proportion to its height and breadth... The summits are generally diagonal... and they seem also in many cases to be imbedded in the earth by a corresponding sloping corner. Their original position was no doubt perpendicular although others are leaning to their fall, and not a few are lying flat upon the ground...
Although the gigantic remnants near the Kirkwall road are too few in number to indicate the circular form, yet that... is sufficiently manifested by the distinct traces of a large green mound in which they are enclosed... almost continuous semicircle... the other segment having been ploughrd up... One of the largest of these stones now lies flat... having been loosened it is said... by the plough, and soon after blown over by a gale”
In 1976 the Orkney Field Club established by observation that the 1772 drawing on p.223 of the Royal Society’s “Notes & Records...” Vol.28 No.2 is a true view from the SE side of the Stones of Stenness to the Watchstone and beyond
An excerpt from:
FROM JOHN O’ GROAT’S TO LAND’S END OR 1372 MILES ON FOOT by Robert Naylor and John Naylor 1916.
“One of the poets has described them:
The heavy rocks of giant size
That o’er the land in circles rise.
Of which tradition may not tell,
Fit circles for the Wizard spell;
Seen far amidst the scowling storm
Seem each a tall and phantom form,
As hurrying vapours o’er them flee
Frowning in grim security,
While like a dread voice from the past
Around them moans the autumnal blast!”
A drawing of the stones by William Daniell (1769-1837), who took an artistic ‘Voyage Round Great Britain’.
Info & pics
Another page from this great Web site, with some excellent old photographs of the Stennes stones.
Sites within 20km of The Standing Stones of Stenness
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The Watchstone
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Stone of Odin
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Barnhouse Settlement
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Maeshowe
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Ring of Brodgar
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Salt Knowe
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Vola
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Grimston
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Bookan Cairns
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Lower Hobbister
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Unstan
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Bookan
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Pickaquoy
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The Brecks
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Ring of Bookan
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Henge
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The Howe
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Wasdale
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Howe Harper
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Snaba Hill
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Voy
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The Hillock
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The Fairy Knowe
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Voy
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Via Mound
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Stockan
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Nabban
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Gyre
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Millhouse
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Wideford
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Saverock
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Berrydale
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Loch of Boardhouse
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Spurdagrove
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Saverock
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Ravie Hill
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Lingrow
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Queena Fjold
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Dwarfie Hamars
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Broch of Lingro
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Pickaquoy
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Knowe of Nesthouse
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Grain Souterrain
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The Dwarfie Stane
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Crantit
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Nether Crantit
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Tingwall
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Patrick Stone
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Knowe of Dishero
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Kirbister Hill
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Redland South
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Knowe of Midgarth
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Hundland Hill
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Scapa
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Quoys
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Redland North
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Hillhead Well
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Hillhead Enclosure
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Wheebin
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Oxtro Broch
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Knowe of Stenso
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Ness of Woodwick
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Knowe of Grugar
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Newan
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Stanerandy
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Mittens
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St. Magnus’s Well
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Broch of Burgar
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Burgar
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Broch of Gurness
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Lower Arsdale
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Twi Ness
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Peterkirk
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Knowes of Lingro
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Knowes of Lingro
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Knowe of Crustan
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The Five Hillocks
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Knowe of Buckquoy
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Crustan
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Berstane Broch
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Setter Noost
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Point of Buckquoy
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Point of Buckquoy
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Costa Hill
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Long Cairn
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Knowe of Burrian
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Long Stone
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Knowe of Lairo
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Westness
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Knowe of Ramsay
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Knowe of Hunclett
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Knowe of Yarso
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Howe of Staneloof
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Knowe of Rowiegar
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Staneloof
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Knowe Of Swandro
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Blackhammer
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Ston Loe
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South Howe
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Taversoe Tuick
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Craw Howe
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Midhowe
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Broch of Midhowe
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North Howe
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The Five Hillocks
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St. Mary’s Broch
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Whoom
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Broch of Steiro
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