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<< Our Photo Pages >> Wormadale Hill - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Shetland

Submitted by h_fenton on Tuesday, 30 November 2004  Page Views: 7457

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wormadale Hill
Country: Scotland County: Shetland Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
 Nearest Village: Wormadale
Map Ref: HU4053046490  Landranger Map Number: 4
Latitude: 60.200776N  Longitude: 1.270751W
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
 4 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
 5

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Wormadale Hill
Wormadale Hill submitted by Tom_Bullock : Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stone in Shetland about 2.4m tall, although it is leaning westwards. 0.75 metres wide and 0.5 metres thick. Packing stones around the base.

Stone is below the very top of the hill, distant views for about 300 degrees centred towards the south.
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Wormadale Hill
Wormadale Hill submitted by DavidHoyle : Looking south from by the stone at the distant horizon. The extreme southerly moon would skim just along the horizon. Thanks to Dan Hoyle for the photos. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wormadale Hill
Wormadale Hill submitted by DavidHoyle : Close up - lovely collection of lichens. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wormadale Hill
Wormadale Hill submitted by DavidHoyle : About 20m north of the site is a row of stones, possible natural geology facing towards the extreme northern rising position of the moon. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wormadale Hill
Wormadale Hill submitted by DavidHoyle : Looking approx East. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wormadale Hill
Wormadale Hill submitted by DavidHoyle : Looking south. Thanks to Dan Hoyle for the photos. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wormadale Hill
Wormadale Hill submitted by DavidHoyle : Looking south

Wormadale Hill
Wormadale Hill submitted by DavidHoyle : Close up looking south.

Wormadale Hill
Wormadale Hill submitted by Tom_Bullock : Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM

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Re: Wormadale Hill by Anonymous on Wednesday, 26 June 2002
Hi i live 5 minuites away from this site, My dad owns the Westings hotel. The standing stone is about 8 feet tall leaning towards the east , it is surrounded by a ring of boulders, [about 9]
and 10 minuites away, at the bottom of the hill there are the remains of a neolithic villiage and about 1/2 a mile away along the top of the hill there is another stone circle with a large well conditioned chambered cairn at the south side of the circle with its entrance facing east, and across the voe over South Whiteness hill there are the remains of a broch on a small island in the next voe, acessable during low tide. "Whiteness is sooooo ancient!"
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