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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 .
Unstan (or Onstan, or Onston) is a Neolithic chambered cairn located about 2 mi (3 km) north-east of Stromness on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.The tomb was built on a promontory that extends into the Loch of Stenness near the settlement of Howe. [1]
The Ness of Brodgar is an archaeological site covering 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) between the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site on the main Island of Orkney, Scotland. The site was excavated from 2003 to 2024, when it was infilled due to concerns about damage to the structures exposed ...
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 ...
The Loch of Stenness is a large brackish loch on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland [2] and is named for the parish of Stenness.It is 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) northeast of the town of Stromness, lies immediately to the south of the Loch of Harray and is close to the World Heritage neolithic sites of the Stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar. [3]
Pottery of the grooved ware type was found, as at the Stones of Stenness and Skara Brae. [5]: 32 Flint and stone tools were found, as well as a piece of pitchstone thought to have come from the Isle of Arran. The largest of the original buildings was House 2. It was double-sized, featuring a higher building standard than the other houses and ...
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.