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<< Our Photo Pages >> Deepdale Stones - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Orkney
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Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 08 October 2002 Page Views: 3451
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Scotland
Site Name: Deepdale Stones Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Stromness Nearest Village: Stenness
Map Ref: HY272118 Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 58.987110N Longitude: 3.268411W
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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A Pair of Standing Stones in Orkney, one of which was removed in 1978.
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 Deepdale Stones submitted by howar
other side
 Deepdale Stones submitted by howar
looking towards Howe
 Deepdale Stones submitted by howar
looking to Unstan/Onston
 Deepdale Stones submitted by howar
NE face of stone
 Deepdale Stones submitted by howar
Looking beside SE end to (former) location of stone B.
Extended line carries on to multi-period area about Bu of Gairston
 Deepdale Stones submitted by howar
SW face of stone
 Deepdale Stones submitted by howar
NW end of stone, fragment/s beside stone setting, hiltop mounds on Ness of Seatter in far distance
 Deepdale Stones submitted by TimPrevett
The surviving Deepdale stone as seen from the road. This is on a long bend near Stromness, so be careful of the traffic.
 Deepdale Stones submitted by TimPrevett
The eastern face of the stone which looks towards Maeshowe, Stenness, Unstand & Brodgar.
 Deepdale Stones submitted by TimPrevett
This stone is over 6 feet tall, but narrower than the breadth of my hand. Given the strong wind which seems to prevail across Orkney much of the time, its continued standing seems something of a marvel.
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Re: Deepdale Stones (Score: 1)
by howar on Sunday, 26 July 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Pass the north corner of the quarry and through an open field-gate into the field next door - just follow the field edge over from the quarry tightly uphill if there are crops in it. The crop about the remaining stone is rather patchy and long steps and careful placement of the feet avoids damage when taking wide-angle photos - could this patchiness imply something underlying this, even archaeology ? Looking at the loose and loosened stones directly around the stone I wonder whether s.s. sockets are always contemporary - I can imagine standing stones being, as it were, bare rooted and then someone later noting a Pisa effect and then taking remedial action. Over in the next field towards Howe half-way along the field edge used to be a well (and small building but not a wellhouse), reached by a straight track from the Howe road | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Deepdale Stones (Score: 1)
by howar on Saturday, 04 August 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | The Deepdale standing stones (having NW/SE axes), RCAHMS NMRS no. HY21SE 25 at HY272117, used to be a pair - A at HY27171171 and B at HY27181166. Standing at A facing the Unstan Cairn eighty-two degrees clockwise and 44.5m away is/was B, the other side of the south-east fence and further up the hill. The latter was the longer stone at 7'6" compared to 6', though its top was a foot less vertically as at some time in recent centuries a then taller stone had been snapped and the unshiftable remainder left at an angle. It tapered from a 5'3" maximum to a point, whereas A is 4'6" thick (4½" thick) and sub-rectangular. A has a roughly 1x0.2 m edgeset-stone setting showing about 0.3m high, with a roughly metre long stone fragment alongside (there used to be another fragment - one assumes therefore that this s.s. was also slighted). In the early 1960's heavy ploughing disturbed stone B and the bulk was removed for safety. The remaining stump, projecting 8-10", was excavated later (at this time other fragments remained) but not enough matter found for the C14 methods back then to work. It measured 4'5" by 6" and sat clay packed in a 6'6" by 4' by 3' deep cut. Most likely the excavation process finished the work of removing this stone, but the site is under cultivation at the moment. Coming from the Brig o'Waithe and passing the end of the back road to Stromness (the Howe road) the remaining stone is clear to see on the uphill side of the road at the near bottom corner above what now looks like an overgrown quarry-*****-dump. At present the fields are grain, there is a gate roadside into that nearest the 'quarry'. Keep close to the field edge then turn up alongside the 'quarry' and just past this is another gate into the field containing the surviving stone. This is very much 'as' advertised, though outside of the stone setting further fragmentation looks to have taken place despite the farmer leaving a deal of fallow space about the stone. It is unfortunate that despite (in theory) increasing (supposed) accuracy regarding grid references axial alignments even for standing stones are still almost always given as intercardinal directions. For with my protractor on the map NW/SE appears to 'point' north of the main Brodgar complex to the region of the Dyke of Sean and the Wasbister disc barrow.
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