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<< Our Photo Pages >> Stanerandy Stones - Standing Stones in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Wednesday, 25 August 2004  Page Views: 6968

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Stanerandy Stones Alternative Name: Stanerandy Tumulus, Stane Randa, Birsay
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Finstown  Nearest Village: Birsay
Map Ref: HY267276
Latitude: 59.128878N  Longitude: 3.282386W
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.
4 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.
2 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
3

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Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by howar : 'Stane Randa' stones (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stones with Round Barrow in Orkney.
RCAHMS NMRS record HY22NE 15 now considered to be a barrow into which stones were later inserted , and of the two latter only the stump of one remains (there are three definite barrows at HY275277).

Coming up from Birsay village take the A967 until the Vinbrake junction and then take that. Cornfield right to the very edge presently, so a closer look will have to wait several months. The wheat being tall you can only see the tumulus in two places at the moment. Fortunately the views being at right-angles to each other partially compensates.

Closest to is at the corner of the field behind a Nissen hut, with a big fencepost to rest the camera on - no-one objected at the time to my going to that point. The other view, about twice the distance, is after the road turns left. Though you can see it most of the way going down towards Newan (Newan Chambered Cairn is confusingly not here but beyond Stanerandy near a disused quarry on the hill) look out for a pair of flatface-aligned stones and between there and the fence above Newan and you are looking straight across at it.

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Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by Energyman : From the East 13/5/22 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by Energyman : The stones sit on a slight tump. 13/5/22 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by howar : View of western end. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by Energyman : Looking between the stones at 228 degrees. 13/5/22 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by Energyman : From the South 13/5/22 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by Energyman : AS you approach it from below, it sits nicely on the horizon. 13/5/22

Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by howar : View from downhill.

Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by howar : View from eastern end with Brough of Birsay behind.

Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by howar : View from uphill.

Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by howar : by Newan Farm, across hill view

Stanerandy Stones
Stanerandy Stones submitted by howar : viewed from hillside above

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 433m ENE 66° Newan* Chambered Cairn (HY27102777)
 1.1km W 263° St.Magnus's Well* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (HY25652750)
 1.1km NNE 32° Rosebank Quarry* Standing Stones (HY27292850)
 1.2km W 264° Broch of Oxtro Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (HY255275)
 1.6km WSW 237° Oxtro* Broch or Nuraghe (HY25372678)
 1.6km NNE 28° Knowe of Crustan* Round Barrow(s) (HY27472897)
 1.9km SW 226° Stone 'O Quoybune* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HY25312629)
 2.2km NE 49° Knowes of Lingro* Barrow Cemetery (HY284290)
 2.2km NE 51° Lingro Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HY28452894)
 2.3km WNW 284° Knowe of Buttquoy* Ancient Village or Settlement (HY24482820)
 2.4km WNW 286° Point of Buttquoy* Round Barrow(s) (HY244283)
 2.6km S 177° Queenafjold* Barrow Cemetery (HY268250)
 2.7km SSE 150° Loch of Boardhouse* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HY28052520)
 2.9km WNW 287° Birsay* Ancient Village or Settlement (HY239285)
 2.9km ENE 77° Mittens* Round Barrow(s) (HY29592823)
 3.2km SSW 201° Spurdagove Standing Stones (HY255246)
 4.4km ENE 63° Costa Hill* Round Barrow(s) (HY30722953)
 5.6km SSE 162° Knowe of Taft Broch or Nuraghe (HY28362226)
 5.6km ENE 65° Verron (Midhouse)* Broch or Nuraghe (HY31852990)
 5.9km S 180° Knowes of Howana Barrow Cemetery (HY26542169)
 6.0km E 82° Vinquin* Broch or Nuraghe (HY32682830)
 6.2km SSW 204° Vestrafiold* Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry (HY241220)
 6.3km SSW 196° Holy Kirk Stones Chambered Cairn (HY249216)
 6.4km SSW 204° Vestra Fiold Chambered Cairn (HY240218)
 7.1km E 80° Peterkirk* Broch or Nuraghe (HY337287)
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Re: Stanerandy Stones by Energyman on Friday, 13 May 2022
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Location from the OS map is HY 26751 27610. My GPS couldn't get enough satellites to get more accurate than 70m
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Stanerandy Stones Street View by SteveDut on Monday, 10 May 2010
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Re: Stanerandy Stones by howar on Saturday, 18 September 2004
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appears on a 1760 map as Gervie Stone
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    Re: Stanerandy Stones by howar on Friday, 06 May 2011
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    Traditionally Stanerandy was Earl Randolph's Stones, though the modern reading is 'stony ridge'/'ridge of stones'. The etymology of gervie is unknown but could be from either i) ge(y)r, an odd bit of land, angular and often left uncultivated, or ii) gør 'giantess/witch/trow'. Interestingly, these can be combined by the Northern Isles folklore that the 'White Folk' (Madruis or Queeda Folk) had enclosures surrounded by a dyke of earth or stones where there was often in one corner a rough affair, the White Chammer [i.e. chamber] where they lived. Certainly there are too many cut-off triangles of land in Orkney for coincidence.
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