Standing Stones

Picture: Colin Richards
“Outcrops jutting from the slope at places like Vestrafiold would have indicated the presence of suitable bands of material. Some ...
The Stones of Stenness. (📷 Tim Winterburn) Melvyn Bragg is joined by Professor Vicki Cummings (University of Central Lancashire), Professor ...
“There is also the Stane o’ Hindatuin to be seen, an upright monolith standing on the top of a brae ...
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The Central Standing Stone (Jo Bourne)
An update to our excavation background section this week, dealing with the "central paved area" and standing stone between Structures ...
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"A slightly different form of expansion may be present at Howe, Stromness, Mainland, where two buildings initially interpreted as a ...
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The Standing Stones of Stenness, looking north-west towards the Ness of Brodgar. (Sigurd Towrie)
“The first decayed and new ones were made. And in time the new ones became old, yet still they were ...
Picture: Jo Bourne
"…at the north-west end of the Bridge of Brogar is a large dilapidated tumulus, which appears to be the ruin ...
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The Odin Stone. Marchioness of Stafford. 1805.
"As we passed the Bridge of Brodgar, we could dimly descry the Standing Stones of Stenness on the eminence but ...
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The Barnhouse Stone, Stenness. (Sigurd Towrie)
“…on the day itself, at the death of one year and the birth of the next, the sun drops onto ...
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The Deepdale Standing Stone, Stromness, Orkney (Sigurd Towrie)
The Deepdale Stone. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) By Sigurd Towrie Head north along the road parallel to the south-western shore of ...
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Winter snow. (Sigurd Towrie)
"Each of the remaining pillars is about 18 feet above ground: one was lately thrown down, but has not been ...
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Comet Stone and Ring of Brodgar. 2000. (Sigurd Towrie)
"The old track now passes by a small, solitary standing stone slab, encircled in green for some distance around its ...
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