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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 .
On 1 October 2024 almost all of the Church of Scotland parishes in Orkney united as a single parish, known as Orkney Islands Church of Scotland, retaining most of the current church buildings and served by a team ministry. (As of late 2024 the parish churches of Evie & Rendall linked with Firth are not yet part of this new union).
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type."
Firth (Fjörðr [1] meaning a firth or fjord) is a civil parish mainly on Mainland, Orkney. The islands of Damsay and Holm of Grimbister , which lie in the Bay of Firth, are also in the parish. It is in the west of the mainland island, lying south of the parish of Rendall , east of Harray and Stenness , north of Orphir and west of St Ola .
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]
Three years ago, I launched a Facebook page dedicated to Lenawee County history and genealogy, a place where people could share photos and make family tree research inquiries. This year marks a ...
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 ...
The Neolithic Barnhouse Settlement is sited by the shore of Loch of Harray, Orkney Mainland, Scotland, not far from the Standing Stones of Stenness, about 5 miles north-east of Stromness. [ 2 ] It was discovered in 1984 by Colin Richards.