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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Loch of Boardhouse Alternative Name: National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS) HY22NE 10Country: Scotland
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County: Orkney Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Finstown Nearest Village: Dounby
Map Ref: HY28052520
Latitude: 59.107562N Longitude: 3.258016W
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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. |
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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National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS) record number HY22NE 10 is a standing stone (probably with packing) situated in a marshy area, aligned E/W and sitting in a depression with several smaller non-standing stones.
The OS in 1967 didn't think it had any age. It is not far from the Kirbuster Farm Museum, in the field before the (fenced off) Burn of Kirbuster that connects the lochs of Hundland and Boardhouse. When I went I tried to go straight to it, but feeling my feet sinking in skirted round the marshy bit entirely. Even the depression the stone sits in held water so measurements were tricky. It leans forward, the longer side 1.1m and the shorter 0.5m, the top 0.6m. Thickness 0.25m. Bearing in mind the OS I checked to see if it had been part of a 'standing stone fence'. No, but few metres away two stones embedded face down, one of reasonable size.
The site of the standing stone is rather a mess, but rather than raising doubts the feeling is that more is going on here than the visible standing stone - perhaps this is what's left of a cairn. On the other hand the situation in a marshy area brings to mind other Orcadian stones that are in association with springs. None are mapped in this location. However, when I turned back to the depression, which varies from 2.5-3m across, I saw that the side opposite me had horozontal stone prodruding below ground level. An inriguing site close to the souther shore of the Loch of Boardhouse and no great distance from Kirkibrae.
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