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Orkney Smr Note
Date September 1982
Event ID 619429
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Orkney Smr Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619429
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.
