Wheebin, South Breckbie
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Wheebin, South Breckbie
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Stane O' Quoybune; Stanger; The Wheebin Stone
Canmore ID 1784
Site Number HY22NE 3
NGR HY 2531 2629
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1784
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Birsay And Harray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
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.
Orkney Smr Note
The standing stone known as Wheebin.... evidently been brought from adjacent hillside and placed with its major axis NNW and SSE. Although it is about 12ft high there is little evidence of its having been packed at the base. Its width is 5ft at ground level and 3.25ft at 6ft higher up, from which point it tapers gradually to the top. The average thickness is about 14in. [R1] [R2]
Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]
