Orkney Smr Note
Event ID 619976
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Orkney Smr Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619976
The 'Watch Stone' faces E and W and is the largest of the
upright stones in the neighbourhood, reaching a height of no less
than 18ft 6in, and measuring 5ft in breadth by 16in in thickness.
In 1930, when the bank at the side of the road was cut into
in order to obtain material for repair, the stump of a second
monolith was found close to the edge of the Loch of Stenness and
about 14 yards SSW of the 'Watch Stone'. Unfortunately it has now
been removed. The stump was 4ft 9in wide, 5in thick, and at least
3ft high, while its broken top was immediately beneath the
original surface of the ground. [R1]
Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]