Featured: Lost Secrets - an adventure during Neolithic times

Lost Secrets - an adventure during Neolithic times

Random Image


Gled Law 3

The Significance of Monuments

The Significance of Monuments

Who's Online

There are currently, 281 guests and 0 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Our Photo Pages >> Skellister - Standing Stones in Scotland in Shetland

Submitted by jeffrep on Thursday, 15 February 2001  Page Views: 9731

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Skellister Alternative Name: Auld Wife
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 4.836 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Shetland Type: Standing Stones

Map Ref: HU463552  Landranger Map Number: 3
Latitude: 60.278360N  Longitude: 1.1647W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

Internal Links:
External Links:

I have visited· I would like to visit

43559959 would like to visit

jeffrep has visited here

Skellister
Skellister submitted by jeffrep : Skellister Standing Stone, Central Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stones in Shetland. The Skellister Standing Stone is an irregular boulder of grey sandstone with large veins of white quartz, apparently quarried from the adjacent hillside and set up amid rough, rocky surroundings. The stone is just over nine feet in height and is packed at the base.

Locally it is also known as the Auld Wife (Old Wife), because in silhouette it resembles a stooped, albeit tall, old woman. The Skellister Standing Stone is located near the village of Skellister on the Hill of Skellister off the B9075, a minor road in the South Nesting area of the Central Mainland off the A970 main road.
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Skellister
Skellister submitted by jeffrep : Skellister Standing Stone, Central Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. West Skellister Voe and South Nestings Bay in the background. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Skellister
Skellister submitted by jeffrep : Skellister Standing Stone, Central Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Skellister
Skellister submitted by jeffrep : Skellister Standing Stone, Central Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. Located on the Hill of Skellister off a minor road. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.

Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
HU4655 : Hills of Skellister and standing stone by Robert Sandison
by Robert Sandison
©2008(licence)
HU4655 : Standing Stone by David White
by David White
©2007(licence)
HU4655 : Planticrub by David White
by David White
©2007(licence)
HU4655 : The road to Bretabister by Oliver Dixon
by Oliver Dixon
©2022(licence)
HU4655 : West Voe of Skellister by Stuart Wilding
by Stuart Wilding
©2009(licence)

The above images may not be of the site on this page, they are loaded from Geograph.
Please Submit an Image of this site or go out and take one for us!


Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive OS map

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.

Stone Pages Tour by Arosio and Meozzi


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 4.1km S 171° Gletness Broch or Nuraghe (HU470512)
 4.3km NE 46° Loch of Kirkabister Burnt Mound Artificial Mound (HU49355821)
 4.7km NE 36° Loch of Stavaness Broch or Nuraghe (HU490590)
 7.8km SW 231° Loch Of Strom* Stone Circle (HU4034450203)
 9.8km N 359° Lunnasting Standing Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HU4665)
 10.2km WNW 285° East Burra Firth Chambered Cairn* Chambered Cairn (HU364577)
 10.4km SW 214° Wormadale Hill* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HU4053046490)
 10.6km SSW 213° Westings Hill* Stone Circle (HU4068346194)
 10.8km WNW 286° East Burra Firth Broch* Broch or Nuraghe (HU358580)
 12.6km SW 217° Easthouse* Standing Stones (HU388450)
 12.7km SSE 168° Stane o'Cruester* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HU490428)
 13.0km S 173° Burnt Mound of Cruester* Ancient Village or Settlement (HU4816142310)
 13.1km WSW 249° Semblister Broch or Nuraghe (HU341503)
 13.8km W 273° Gravlaba* Standing Stones (HU325558)
 13.9km WSW 252° Semblister Stone Circle* Stone Circle (HU3307450733)
 13.9km S 176° Shetland Museum* Museum (HU474413)
 14.1km N 10° Chapel Knowe Broch or Nuraghe (HU48556910)
 14.1km SSW 202° Tingwall stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HU4123742029)
 14.1km SSE 157° Cullingsburgh* Broch or Nuraghe (HU521423)
 14.1km SSE 157° Bressay Pictish Cross Slab* Class III Pictish Cross Slab (HU5210042300)
 14.4km S 180° Clickhimin* Broch or Nuraghe (HU46434081)
 15.1km SSW 206° Loch of Houlland Ancient Village or Settlement (HU39754161)
 15.6km SSE 156° Noss Sound Broch* Broch or Nuraghe (HU528410)
 16.6km SSE 162° Wadbister Souterrain* Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House) (HU5163139487)
 16.7km NW 318° Busta Brae* Standing Stones (HU34886739)
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Winterbourne Stoke

Callanish 4 >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Prehistoric houses at Sumburgh in Shetland

Prehistoric houses at Sumburgh in Shetland

Web Links for Skellister

Stone Pages Tour by Arosio and Meozzi

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Skellister" | Login/Create an Account | 4 News and Comments
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Re: Skellister by chrispy on Sunday, 03 September 2017
(User Info | Send a Message)
8 fig grid ref no HU 4632 5522 canmore 1130
[ Reply to This ]

Re: Skellister by jeffrep on Monday, 26 July 2010
(User Info | Send a Message)
Condition: 3
Ambience: 5
Access: 3
[ Reply to This ]

Re: Skellister by jeffrep on Monday, 26 July 2010
(User Info | Send a Message)
The Skellister Standing Stone is an irregular boulder of grey sandstone with large veins of white quartz, apparently quarried from the adjacent hillside and set up amid rough, rocky surroundings. The stone is just over nine feet in height and is packed at the base. Locally it is also known as the Auld Wife (Old Wife), because in silhouette it resembles a stooped, albeit tall, old woman.

The Skellister Standing Stone is located near the village of Skellister on the Hill of Skellister off the B9075, a minor road in the South Nesting area of the Central Mainland off the A970 main road.
[ Reply to This ]

Re: Skellister by coldrum on Monday, 05 April 2010
(User Info | Send a Message)
Street View


View Larger Map
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.