Eday, 'braeside'
Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Eday, 'braeside'
Classification Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Carrick Farm
Canmore ID 3179
Site Number HY53NE 5
NGR HY 56 37
NGR Description HY c. 56 37
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Eday
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY53NE 5 c. 56 37
See also HY53NE 10.
Three former standing stones lie prostrate and half concealed by heather and rank grass at Braeside (HY 5610 3775).
One lies in a field close to the fence on the east, and is a rough, four-sided block of weathered sandstone, 4'9" long, varying in width from 22" to les than 15" and is roughly 15" thick. The second, lying about 40 yds SE, is of the same material and similar shape measuring 4' long by 13" wide by 13" thick. The third lies 100 yds from the first and a short distance east of HU53NE10. It is of the same material as the other two and is 4'4" long and 12" thick, the width varying from 10" to 17 1/2".
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
Braeside is reduced to its foundations and the surrounding area ploughed. There is no trace and no local knowledge of these former standing stones.
Visited by OS (NKB) 24 July 1970.
In 1928 Corrie described three recumbent slabs, which he considered to be fallen standing stones, in the neighbourhood of the house of Braeside (HY 5610 3775, now obliterated). Corrie's report (omitted from the Inventory) of an erect earthfast slab near one of the stones, suggests that he had found some ancient structure. The area has been agriculturally improved and nothing now can be traced.
RCAHMS 1984, visited September 1982.
Orkney Smr Note (September 1982)
Corrie in 1928 described three standing stones, all fallen,
in the neighbourhood of the now obliterated house of Braeside (HY
5610). All were recumbent and there is no mention of stumps in
situ. Measurements of all three stones are given. In the
notebook, not repeated in the Inventory, it is stated however in
respect of the second stone, The remains of what may have been a
cist at base. One slab on edge 3ft long survives and just shows
above ground Axis NE-SW. [R1], [R2]
The OS Name-Book of 1879 mentions no standing stones here
although it treats in detail of other antiquities in the area.
Corrie writes as if he had local information although he does not
explicitly say so. These slabs may, in fact, have been left
behind from the extensive quarrying in the neighbourhood and
perhaps were not standing stones at all. The rport of the
earthfast erect slab or cist however does suggest that Corrie
had located some ancient structure. The land in the immediate
area of Braeside has been improved and there is no trace of any of
these features.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sep 82.
