Stones of Via

Also known as:
Loch of Clumley, Slab of Via, Stones of Vea and Stones of Veu
Nearest town:
Stromness (6km S)
OS reference:
HY2616
OS sheet:
6
Latitude:
59° 1' 29.48 N
Longitude:
3° 17' 20.87 W
Added to TMA by

Sites within Stones of Via

​

​ •

location_on photo ondemand_video forum description link ​

​

​ •

location_on photo ondemand_video forum description link ​

Images

Articles

Stones of Via

wideford
wideford Apr 23, 2004

Located behind the ruins at the back of Via, which lies the other side of the road from the Loch of Clumley that gives the alternative name. Very impressive pileup, you can understand why the archaeologists admit to being baffled by the remains. The enclosure reference is to the approx. 88x75m depression about it. Though not totally sure the six stones are in situ archaeologists hazard it may be all we have left of a Maes Howe tomb. The stones aren’t all that big, the impression of being massive comes from how thick they are. In Orkney most chambered tombs are of much slighter slabs or of drystane walling. But the impression I had in the flesh was more a sense of its being a dolmen or cromlech. The marshy ground a little distance to the right appears to be above where the well was previously. I am posting seperately a cist-like structure that I saw at the top of this. The decorated stone eluded me.

Miscellaneous

Stones of Via
Burial Chamber
wideford
wideford Mar 2, 2004

Enclosure and stone setting RCAHMS NMRS record HY21NE 3 The stones occupy what was an approx. 14m area of rough ground and lie within a slight hollow whose edge represents an ‘enclosure’ around 88x75m.
At HY258161 what looks like a cist in the barrow is where a modern aerial used to be . There is an undated reference to a marked stone at HY259160 if you want to investigate .

Topics

the nature of the beast 4
wideford
wideford
Apr 2005

Sites within 20km of Stones of Via

Like all websites everywhere, we use cookies.