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<< Our Photo Pages >> Loch of Boardhouse - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Monday, 17 August 2015  Page Views: 2161

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Loch of Boardhouse Alternative Name: National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS) HY22NE 10
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.2 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Orkney Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Finstown  Nearest Village: Dounby
Map Ref: HY28052520
Latitude: 59.107562N  Longitude: 3.258016W
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
2 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.
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
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Loch of Boardhouse
Loch of Boardhouse submitted by howar : Loch of Boardhouse standing stone and loose(ned) stones (Vote or comment on this photo)
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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Loch of Boardhouse
Loch of Boardhouse submitted by howar : nearby embedded stones (Vote or comment on this photo)

Loch of Boardhouse
Loch of Boardhouse submitted by howar : stone with top of possible well wall at left (Vote or comment on this photo)

Loch of Boardhouse
Loch of Boardhouse submitted by howar : looking down on a possible well wall (Vote or comment on this photo)

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HY2825 : Looking out the back gate of the Kirbuster Farm Museum by C Michael Hogan
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HY2825 : Kirbuster Farm Museum by John Comloquoy
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HY2825 : Kirbuster Farm Museum, Orkney by nick macneill
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HY2825 : Kirbuster Farm by Mick Garratt
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HY2825 : Kirkbuster Farm Museum by Andrew Riley
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