Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641491

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HP50SE 9 5787 0334

(HP 5786 0336) Standing Stone (NR)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900).

See also HP50SE 26.

A massive and irregularly-shaped standing stone, some 12' high, with its major axis NW-SE. It has a girth of 19' 6" at base and of 22' at 4' above ground, where it reaches its maximum width of 8' 2".

In spite of having been packed at the base, it shows a decided tilt towards the SW. The few large stones lying round about seem to have no connection with it.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930.

As described and illustrated.

Visited by OS (NKB), 5 May 1969.

Using this 4m high standing stone as backsight, the standing stone at Burragarth [HP50SE 26] at a distance of 0.7km to the NNW, acts as skyline foresight for a hitherto unnoticed lunar alignment with declination 28'.629

H Exton 1994b.