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Re: Stanydale by LionsFan on Friday, 10 September 2004

Staneydale (which I believe is the correct spelling) isn't a stone circle at all. Rather, it's described as a "neolithic temple," and it's a large, walled enclosure, with an entrance, which at one time have been roofed over with wood or thatch. It's also rather hard to get to, a good tramp across pasture and moorland from a minor road. Oddly, too, in the Shetlands where supposedly everyplace is never more than 1.5 miles from water, no body of water is even remotely visible from the site, as if the "temple" was thus sited here very much on purpose. But if you want privacy with your megalithic sites, this and the circle (if that's in fact what it is) on Fetlar are your sorts of places. Your only company here may well be a few curious, friendly Shetland ponies. I was there on a gloriously clear and cool September morning, and it honestly felt as if the sky opened to me and I could sense "why" our prehistoric ancestors built such structures, if not "who to."

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