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<< Our Photo Pages >> Staney stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Monday, 26 January 2004  Page Views: 12578

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Staney stone
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)

Map Ref: HY320156  Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 59.022020N  Longitude: 3.186089W
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
 no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data 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.
 no data 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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 141m SE 134° Venus of the Whins* Round Barrow(s) (HY321155)
 274m WSW 250° Feolquoy* Round Barrow(s) (HY31741551)
 499m NW 306° Staney Hill* Chambered Tomb (HY316159)
 581m SSW 198° Langskaill Mound* Artificial Mound (HY31811505)
 848m ENE 65° Woodwyn* Cairn (HY32781594)
 861m NE 45° Appiehouse* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HY32621620)
 1.1km E 100° Dale Souterrain* Artificial Mound (HY33111538)
 1.3km NW 314° Maesquoy* Standing Stones (HY311165)
 1.5km WNW 297° Knowe of Gullow* Broch or Nuraghe (HY307163)
 1.5km N 351° Caperhouse* Standing Stones (HY318171)
 1.7km NW 315° Knowe of Burrian (Garth Farm)* Broch or Nuraghe (HY30821680)
 1.7km SW 214° Campston (Grimeston)* Broch or Nuraghe (HY310142)
 1.7km SW 214° Grimston Broch* Broch or Nuraghe (HY310142)
 1.7km SSW 197° Vola* Round Barrow(s) (HY31471395)
 1.8km N 9° Nettletar* Broch or Nuraghe (HY32321741)
 2.4km NNW 343° Overbrough* Broch or Nuraghe (HY31361790)
 2.5km ESE 110° Wasdale (Orkney)* Crannog (HY343147)
 2.8km NE 47° Knowes of Trotty* Barrow Cemetery (HY341175)
 2.8km S 183° Maes Howe* Chambered Cairn (HY31821277)
 2.9km ESE 116° Howe Harper* Chambered Cairn (HY346143)
 3.1km SSW 202° Barnhouse Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (HY30761270)
 3.2km SSW 212° Ness of Brodgar* Ancient Village or Settlement (HY3024312941)
 3.2km SSW 209° Lochview Mound* Cairn (HY304128)
 3.2km SSW 213° Brodgar Farm Chambered Tomb Chambered Tomb (HY302129)
 3.3km SW 226° Fresh Knowe* Long Barrow (HY29601339)
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Re: Staney stone by howar on Sunday, 11 July 2010
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Come up the minor road alongside Maes Howe [marked Fursbreck Pottery] up and past Hybreck until you reach the Grimeston road junction. Pass along the Grimeston road to a fieldgate on the left. Here I entered the place where the standing stone is, striking a diagonal by a small dry burn (these being all over and about Staney Hill I imagine one can rule out glacial deposition for the big rocks ?). From the Staney Hill road you can see the stone behind a ledge like a very low cliff, and then coming this way it reveals itself to be standing above one end of a long wiggly quarry
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Re: Staney stone by howar on Sunday, 11 July 2010
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Condition:5
Ambience:4
Access:3
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Re: Staney stone by howar on Sunday, 11 July 2010
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HY31951567
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Re: Staney by coldrum on Sunday, 04 April 2010
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Re: Staney by howar on Wednesday, 26 July 2006
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Apparently a local ex-archaeologist "once mentioned a mini stone circle on the Grimeston side road (between Staney Hill Rd and Harray Rd". Another archaeologist friend, who related this, added that there was summat "visible on the S side of the road" but that she thought that "the OAT view is it's a damaged and unusually wide bell barrow".
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    Re: Staney by howar on Sunday, 03 May 2009
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    A confusion of two sites, Vola/Quoyer and Henge. The former is the "bell barrow" beside the Harray-Stenness footpath near the Viewpoint end, the latter (presently being investigated by an Orkney College student as a multi-period monument including a newly found henge) is named after the cottage of that name beside the Grimeston Road where the 1:25,000 shows the legend Staney Hill
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      Re: Staney by howar on Thursday, 11 July 2013
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      HY31NW 106 at HY318157 consisting of several stones some think either were part of a stone circle or intended to be one. And Henge now has the NMRS record no. HY31NW 114 with a grid reference of HY32201565
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Re: Staney by eforrest25 on Sunday, 05 June 2005
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The stone is fully visible from the road beside it, but is not accessible due to fencing. Using the Ordance Survey as marked with Staney and extending a line through to the Deepdale Stone several miles away, the line passes through the Ring of Brogar.
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