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Sunset at the Standing Stones of Stenness An 18th-century engraving of the Odin Stone. Let us imagine, then, families approaching Stenness at the appointed time of year, men, women and children, carrying bundles of bones collected together from the skeletons of disinterred corpses–skulls, mandibles, long bones–carrying also the skulls of totem animals, herding a beast that was one of ...
Stenness (pronounced / ˈ s t ɛ n ɪ s /) (Old Norse: Steinnes; Norn: Stennes) is a village and parish on the Orkney Mainland in Scotland. [1] It contains several notable prehistoric monuments including the Standing Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar .
It is the only major henge and stone circle in Britain which is an almost perfect circle. Most henges do not contain stone circles; Brodgar is a striking exception, ranking with Avebury and Stonehenge among the greatest of such sites. [1] The ring of stones stands on a small isthmus between the Lochs of Stenness and Harray.
The Ring of Brodgar is a massive ceremonial stone circle dating back to the third millennium BC, and the Stones of Stenness was once a circle of 12 stones with a central hearth built more than ...
Today only a few of the Stones of Stenness on Orkney still stand, but this 19th-century image shows what that stone circle originally looked like (Wiki)
Standing Stones of Stenness – the four remaining megaliths of a henge, the largest of which is 6 metres (19 ft) high. [2] [3] Ring of Brodgar – a stone circle 104 metres in diameter, originally composed of 60 stones set within a circular ditch up to 3 metres deep and 10 metres wide, forming a henge monument. It has been estimated that the ...
The Stones of Stenness are five remaining megaliths of a henge, the largest of which is 6 metres (20 ft) high. The site is thought to date from 3100 BC, one of the earliest dates for a henge anywhere in Britain. [65] [66] [67] The Stones are part of a landscape that evidently had considerable ritual significance for the "Grooved ware people ...
Standing Stones of Stenness – the four remaining megaliths of a henge, the largest of which is 6 metres (19 ft) high. [15] [16] Ring of Brodgar – a stone circle 104 metres in diameter, originally composed of 60 stones set within a circular ditch up to 3 metres deep and 10 metres wide, forming a henge monument. It has been estimated that the ...