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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 643604
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/643604
HY22NE 3 2531 2629.
(HY 2532 2629) Wheebin (OE)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1900).
A standing stone 12 ft high, 5 ft broad at the base (reducing gradually to the top) and 14 ins average thickness. There is no evidence of packing round the base. The stone faces NNW - SSE.
RCAHMS 1946.
Wheebin is a standing stone, as described by the Commission.
Visited by OS (NKB) 28 May 1967.
Scheduled as 'Wheebin standing stone... an exceptionally tall, single standing stone, known as the Wheebin Stone'.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 10 February 2003.
