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<< Our Photo Pages >> Ladykirk Stone - Rock Art in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Sunday, 08 April 2007  Page Views: 9177

Rock ArtSite Name: Ladykirk Stone Alternative Name: St. Magnus Boat
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Kirkwall  Nearest Village: St. Margaret's Hope
Map Ref: ND44008428
Latitude: 58.742534N  Longitude: 2.969223W
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
5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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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Ladykirk Stone
Ladykirk Stone submitted by howar : best view of stone to avoid hollows appearing simply wedges (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Orkney.
RCAHMS record no. ND38SW 6, the Ladykirk Stone can be found in a church alongside the road to Burwick pier where the short sea ferry crossings take place in the tourist season. The stone as it is now measures 3'8" by 1'10" by 9", and the inch deep depressions are 10" by a maximum 3¾".

It is now in a back room at the church, and the key can be had from the lady who runs the local P.O. As this is on the 1:25,000 but unsignposted it is probably best to enquire at the Tomb of the Eagles in order to avoid disappointment outside of its limited post office hours.
The first tale related of the Ladykirk Stone is of a "Gallus priest" (i.e. of the Roman tradition) rescued by a sea monster. In gratitude he turned it into this stone and dedicated a church to St.Mary. The latter site could be 11th century but the earliest we know of it is a 1654 map [this replaced the probably 9th century St.Colm's Chapel (i.e. of the 'Celtic' tradition), now a mound beside the drained Loch of Burwick on the north side of the road after the Brough junction - ND48SW 4 at ND44178426. Originally the stone lay outside Ladykirk. Later the story changed and this whinstone became called St.Magnus Boat. South Ronaldsay is the only one of the Orkney islands where Gaelic was ever spoken, and down on the Scottish mainland at Watten there is (or was) a stone said to have been a dragon petrified by St.Magnus. This Ladykirk 'inauguration stone' with its slight rocking motion could well have been used by a sub-king with land in Caithness. Did its presence attract the church or did the church perhaps fetch it from St.Colm's ?

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Ladykirk Stone
Ladykirk Stone submitted by h_fenton : The Ladykirk Stone. Situated in the room at the west end of the church. Photographed: 2015 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Ladykirk Stone by Anonymous on Friday, 25 May 2012
Stone Hone, ND25NW 13 at ND24265736, by tradition is the grave of an Earl Liot(us)

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