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Photo Pages: Stenness - Stone Circle in Scotland in Orkney
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Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 02 December 2007 Page Views: 10207
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 Site Name: Stenness Alternate Name: Stones of Stenness
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Stromness Nearest Village: Finstown
Map Ref: HY307125 Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 58.993977N Longitude: 3.207749W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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   Stenness submitted by Runemage
Three impressive uprights, two pictured above, one below. Originally a stone circle of twelve stones 30m diameter, in a rock-cut ditch like the nearby Ring of Brodgar.
Excavations in 1973 revealed a central setting of stones, no longer visible, with cremated bone, charcoal, and grooved ware pottery. This style of pottery and the radiocarbon dating suggests a date of 3000BC. This is the same period as the Skara Brae coastal settlement. Nearby is the Watch Stone, and once the Stone of Odin stood nearby as well. The latter was toppled in 1814 by the locals. Apparently the stone had a small hole, through which bargains were sealed, and love plighted formally by grasping hands through the hole.
Access: Immediately east of B9055, and well signposted. A Historic Scotland site. Free entry
The enormous height and narrowness of the huge slab (pictured on end in the top photograph) must be seen. How it has stood for five millenia without cracking is beyond me.
Note: Vote for the Stones of Stenness in the RCAHMS 'Treasured Place' competition, see comment.
 Stenness submitted by howar
view from Clouston hill road (above Kirkwall-Stromness road)
 Stenness submitted by howar
Ring of Brodgar from central feature, note hill in background
 Stenness submitted by howar
central 'hearth'
 Stenness submitted by howar
entire henge from modern path in
 Stenness submitted by howar
north-western corner of henge earthwork
 Stenness submitted by howar
north-eastern corner of henge earthwork
 Stenness submitted by howar
eastern side of henge earthwork
 Stenness submitted by howar
across bank and ditch and circle platform
 Stenness submitted by howar
almost entire circle platform showing also bank and ditch
 Stenness submitted by howar
view along eastern side of henge bank with Watch Stone visible at left. Kokna Cumming mound is light patch right of front cottage, Ness of Brodgar dig is further along in between front and rear right cottage with unexcavated area where vehicles are. In original image at full mag I can just, on my PC, make out the Ring of Bookan on the skyline beyond the mound
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Re: Stenness (Score: 1)
by howar on Friday, 31 July 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Circling the surviving individual components with my camcorder yesterday and many have an orientation to the Bigswell area, where they used to have a Johnsmas fire on the hillside | [ Reply to This ]
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