The Standing Stones of Stenness: Megalithic Technology in Orkney 3,100 BC
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The Standing Stones of Stenness in Orkney, Scotland are the remains of a sublime stone circle that was part of a greater complex including The Ring of Brodgar, Maeshowe and the Ness of Brodgar. It dates to around 3,100 BC making it one of the oldest circles in Britain. Includes exclusive aerial footage.
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Standing Stones of Stenness - Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Standing Stones Of Stenness Orkney Islands
These mysterious standing stones, similar to England's Stonehenge, date from 2000 BC.
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- ... Nearby, the Ring of Brodgar is another standing stone circle, this one is the third largest in Britain; the Standing Stones of Stenness, one of the oldest, built around 3000 BC and Unstan Cairn, a 5000 year old chambered burial cairn that was found to ...
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- Stenness, Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Standing Stones of Stenness,Orkney Island,Scotland by Malinda65 from a blog titled Standing stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar
The Stones of Stenness
The oldest stone circle in the British Isles.
The Neolitic Standing Stones of Stenness by the Loch of Stenness on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland
The ancient Standing Stones of Stenness, a Neolithic monument by the south-eastern shore of the Loch of Stenness, near Stromness on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland.
Only four of the original stones remain at this ancient ceremonial site, one of the oldest henge sites in the British Isles. The Stones are part of the Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, a series of important domestic and ritual monuments built 5,000 years ago on the Orkney Islands. The music is a tune called Land of the Standing Stones' a slow air composed and performed by talented Scottish fiddle player Paul Anderson from Tarland in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Standing Stones of Stenness
At the end of a long and very windy day. Not great camera work, but you get the picture. Also includes angles on the hearth, which I did not know was there.
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Stones of Stenness, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland.
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STONES OF STENNESS
STROMNESS
ORKNEY MAINLAND
SCOTLAND
INTRO
THE STONES OF STENNESS IS ONE OF FOUR SITES WHICH MAKE UP THE HEART OF NEOLITHIC ORKNEY, WORLD HERITAGE SITE. THE STONES OF STENNESS ARE SITUATED ON ORKNEY’S MAIN ISLAND, NINE MILES FROM THE NORTH TIP OF SCOTLAND, ACROSS THE PENTLAND FIRTH.
ORKNEY WAS A JEWEL OF THE NEOLITHIC CULTURE. THE STONES OF STENNESS IS JUST ONE COMPONENT OF A MASSIVE CEREMONIAL LANDSCAPE. THIS MEGALITHIC COMPLEX WAS ERECTED BY OUR PREHISTORIC ANCESTORS. THE RING OF BRODGAR & THE RING OF BOOKAN, MAKE UP A TRILOGY OF SACRED CIRCLES AT THE NESS OF BRODGAR.
SITUATED NEXT TO THE B9055 ROAD AND BETWEEN THE LOCHS OF HARRAY & STENNESS. THE STONES ARE NOT ONLY OF SCOTTISH SIGNIFICANCE BUT GLOBALLY. THE TIME OF CONSTRUCTION IS NOT CLEAR. DATES RANGE FROM BETWEEN 3400BC-2700BC. THE FIRST RECORD OF THE STONES WAS IN 1700AD. THE SITE WAS TAKEN INTO STATE CARE IN 1906.
STONES
THE STONES WERE LAYED OUT IN AN 30M X 32M DIAMETER OVAL.
ORIGINALLY THERE WERE TWELVE STONES, AT PRESENT FOUR REMAIN, THIS HAS BEEN THE CASE SINCE 1760. MODERN MARKERS INDICATE WHERE HOLES OR STONE SETTINGS WERE FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS. WOODEN POSTS COULD HAVE EXISTED BEFORE THE MEGALITHS.
BETWEEN 3000BC-2000BC IS WHEN THE STONES WERE THOUGHT TO BE ERECTED. THE HIGHEST IS OVER 5.7M. IT IS POSSIBLE THE MEGALITHS WERE ERECTED BEFORE THE HENGE CONSTRUCTION. THE TENANT FARMER PULLED DOWN TWO OF THE STONES IN 1851. ONE LAY RECUMBENT, THE OTHER HAD BEEN SHATTERED.
INTERIOR
THE CENTRAL FEATURES WERE IN USE FROM 4950-4500 YEARS AGO. IF YOU ENTER THE SITE FROM THE ORIGINAL ENTRANCE, THE FIRST FEATURE YOU COME TO AFTER THE MEGALITHS, IS A SHORT ARRANGEMENT OF STONES. ACCORDING TO EARLY ACCOUNTS A HUGE RECUMBENT MEGALITH LAY TOWARDS THE CENTRE OF THE RING.
A DOLMEN WAS RECONSTRUCTED IN 1906, THIS RECONSTRUCTION DESTROYED EVIDENCE OF WHAT ONCE EXISTED. IN THE 1970’S THE DOLMEN WAS TAKEN DOWN. THE TWO STONES THAT REMAIN, FRAME MAESHOWE IN THE DISTANCE.
THE FOCAL POINT OF THE INTERIOR IS THE LARGE HEARTH. AN EARLIER HEARTH WOULD HAVE PRECEDED THE ONE WE SEE TODAY, ALONG WITH A TIMBER UPRIGHT. COLIN RICHARDS AN ARCHAEOLOGIST, ARGUES THE ORIGINAL HEARTH CAME FROM THE MIDDLE AREA AT BARNHOUSE VILLAGE, A SHORT WALK AWAY.
HENGE
AROUND THE MEGALITHS WAS A MASSIVE ENCLOSURE HENGE WITH A BANK AND DITCH. THE DITCH WAS 4M WIDE BY NEARLY 2.5M IN DEPTH. THIS WAS A BIG ACHIEVEMENT BY OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS, AS THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN MET WITH MOSTLY SOLID ROCK.
THE SITE LOOKS VERY DIFFERENT TODAY THAN ORIGINALLY IMAGINED. HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF PLOUGHING WORE DOWN THE ORIGINAL HENGE BY 1973. WHAT WE SEE TODAY OF THE HENGE IS A MODERN RECONSTRUCTION OF WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE IN 1851.
ARCHAEOLOGY
ANIMAL BONES WITH GROOVED WARE POTTERY, SUGGEST THE NEW STONE AGE PEOPLE, COOKED AND DINED AT THE STONES. THIS GROOVED WEAR POTTERY HAS BEEN EXCAVATED AT SOME OF THE BEST KNOWN ANCIENT SITES IN SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND.
THERE IS EVIDENCE OF FIRE IN THE SMALL CENTRAL SLAB SETTING. THERE IS SIGNS OF ACTIVITY FROM MUCH LATER ON IN HISTORY. PITS WERE DUG AND FILLED WITH POTTERY JARS. THESE WERE ALSO FOUND IN NEARBY IRON AGE SETTLEMENTS FROM 3000 YEARS LATER.
OTHER INFO
AT THE TOP OF THE STENNESS PENINSULA IS THE WATCHSTONE. IT IS SITUATED A SHORT WALK AWAY TO THE NW. THE HOLED ‘STONE OF ODIN’ WAS NEARBY WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN 1814. THIS STONE WAS RENOWNED FOR SEALING CONTRACTS AND HEALING.
THE NAME STENNESS DERIVES FROM STEIN-NES, AN OLD NORSE WORD MEANING STONE PROMONTORY. THESE SITES AT THE NESS OF BRODGAR ALONG WITH CALLANISH ARE THE BEST KNOWN PREHISTORIC REMAINS IN SCOTLAND.
A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS
Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness
The Ring of Brodgar is a Neolithic stone circle erected between 2500 BC and 2000 BC. The Stones of Stenness, another stone circle was erected around 3100 BC, making it one of the earliest in Britain.
Standing Stones
Stone Circles found in Britain
Music: an original composition ‘Falling Back’ by T Mark Rogers.
Construction of Stone Circles occurred across the British Isles and Brittany in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, with over 1000 surviving examples. A comprehensive though incomplete list can be found here:
Images: The 30 images used are credited to the following authors under their chosen Creative Commons License.
1 Avebury from the air – PeteG - (CC BY-SA 2.0)
2 Avebury First Light – Paul Williams - (CC BY-NC 2.0)
3 Callanish Stones 2 – Chris Combe - (CC BY 2.0)
4 Callanish Stones – Colin Macdonald - (CC BY 2.0)
5 In The Dying Light, Ancient Wonder – Ian Hex - (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
6 Castlerigg Stone Circle – Paul Mcgreevy - (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
7 Castlerigg – eleda 1 - (CC BY-NC 2.0)
8 Meg’s Bairns – Alan Weir - (CC BY 2.0)
9 Long Meg the sun on her back – Fiona in Eden - (CC BY-NC 2.0)
10 Long Meg and Her Daughters pt 2 – Q Thompson - (CC BY-NC 2.0)
11 Stonehenge Stone Circle - (CC BY 2.0)
12 Stonehenge Stone Circle - (CC BY 2.0)
12 Stonehenge Stone Circle - (CC BY 2.0)
14 Stonehenge Stone Circle - (CC BY 2.0)
15 Stonehenge Stone Circle - (CC BY 2.0)
16 Stonehenge Stone Circle - (CC BY 2.0)
17 Stonehenge Stone Circle - (CC BY 2.0)
18 Stonehenge Stone Circle - (CC BY 2.0)
19 Stonehenge Stone Circle – (CC BY 2.0)
20 Duddo Stone Circle – Gail - (CC BY-NC 2.0)
21 Duddo Stone Circle – Jim Donnelly - (CC BY 2.0)
22 Ring of Brodgar – Jenny Laird - (CC BY 2.0)
23 Standing Stones Orkney Islands – JB Banks - (CC BY-NC 2.0)
24 Rollright Stones - Kings Men Stone Circle – Alun Salt - (CC BY-SA 2.0)
25 Stone Circle Stone – John Lees - (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
26 Standing Stones of Stenness – stevekeiretsu - (CC BY-NC 2.0)
27 Stenness Stone Circle, Orkney – Jeff Hart - (CC BY 2.0)
28 Stonehenge – Jim - (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
29 Stonehenge Sunrise – Ann Wuyts - (CC BY-NC 2.0)
30 Stonehenge 12 – Wessex Archaeology - (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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Rudston Monolith: Britain's Tallest Standing Stone & the 'Gypsey Race' | Megalithomania
Rudston Monolith is the tallest standing stone in Britain. At 26 ft tall, it is nearly as high as the church it stands next to in the area of East Riding, Yorkshire. Early reports suggest it is about the same length underground, and was somehow transported from a coastal area about ten miles away. It marks the centre of a series of cursuses, large mounds and a river called the 'Gypsey Race'. It is even said to have a dinosaur footprint on it! In nearby Bridlington a carved stone sphere was unearthed, the most southerly of the 'geometric spheres' discovered mainly in Scotland. See video about those here:
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Ring of Brodgar - Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Ring Of Brodgar Orkney Islands
This is the largest Neolithic standing stone circle in Scotland, which is more than 340 feet in diameter consisting of 25 stones, the largest of which is 15 feet in height.
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- It was amazing to see a place built before the pyramids Onwards yet again we stopped at the Ring of Brodgar and were able to wander around the site
- , I'm 87% sure that my fellow trip-sters think i'm fit to be put in the Loon's Reserve we were at the Ring of Brodgar at a particularly cold, wet, and windy moment, and I let slip the following: I now understand megaliths and sun-god
- We also saw the ring of Brodgar, a Neolithic burial ground
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- Stenness, Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Stromness, Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Kirkwall, Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Island, Scotland by Malinda65 from a blog titled Standing stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar
- Bog Cotton plants near Ring of Brodgar by Malinda65 from a blog titled Standing stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar
- Brodgari sõrmus / Ring of Brodgar by Villu from a blog titled Orkney
- Me and the ring of brodgar by Lisa02148 from a blog titled Orkney Islands, Scotland
- Ring of Brodgar by Eatdessertfirst from a blog titled Older than the Pyramids
Mysterious Geometric Stone Spheres of Ancient Scotland & Orkney | Hugh Newman | Megalithomania
Hugh Newman investigates the geometric stone spheres found in Northeast Scotland, Orkney and parts of Britain and Ireland. What were they used for? How did they carve them? One was even found in Bolivia! Read Hugh's two-part article here:
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The Scottish Isles | Part 7 of 'Standing with Stones'
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The surprising thing about the monuments of these outliers of the British Isles is that not since the grandeur of Avebury in Wiltshire and Stanton Drew in Somerset have we seen stone circles the size of some of these. If size was an expression of 'wealth', how was it being bestowed on the populations of these islands?
This is the last of a complete seven-part online edition of Standing with Stones. If you've ever dreamed of travelling through Great Britain & Ireland, visiting the standing stones and other fantastic monuments that our ancient ancestors left us, then you will love this film. Over two years in the making, Standing with Stones was made by just two men with great film making skills, a camper van and a passion for the monuments in stone left to us by Neolithic and Bronze Age ancestors. The result is a remarkable feature length documentary film that take the viewer on a journey of discovery, uncovering the true extent and variety of megalithic Britain and Ireland.
In this episode, Callanish, Grey Cairns of Camster, Maes Howe, Ring of Brodgar, Stenness, Skara Brae, The Tomb of the Eagles.
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Standing Stones of Stenness
The Standing Stones of Stenness may be the oldest hendge site in the British isles. 5,000 years old. There originally were 12 stones. This is part of a series of ancient sites within miles of each other in the Orkney islands like the Ring of Brodgar and Maeshowe passage grave. It was a blustery day, but our guide, Red was excellent and we were so thrilled to see these amazing sites.
The Standing Sotnes of Stenness, Scotland
he Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument 5 miles northeast of Stromness on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. The Standing Stones of Stenness are actually a circle of 12 stones with a diameter of 30m and comprises of 4 uprights. The circle is surrounded by a rock-cut ditch approximately 2m deep, 7m wide and 44m in diameter. The excavation has exposed a square setting of stones and bedding holes for further uprights, either stone or wooden. The circle was constructed somewhere 3000 BC, older than several Henge monuments in the British Isles. An 18th century antiquary, Dr. Robert Henry, describe the site was used once for the Temple of the Moon, and the Ring of Brodgar as the Temple of the Sun. The Neolithic quarried thousands of tons of fine-grained sandstone, trimmed it, properly shaped it, and then transported it quite a few miles to a grassy promontory with commanding views of the nearby countryside. Their workmanship was extremely immaculate.
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Orkney - Stenness, Brodgar und Yesnaby
Eindrücke von Orkney mit Aufnahmen der Steine von Stenness, dem Ring of Brodgar und den Klippen von Yesnaby.
Stone circles that are more beautiful than Stonehenge HD 2017 HD
Stone circles that are more beautiful than Stonehenge 2016 HD
Stonehenge in the west of England is undoubtedly the king of stone circles - stone monuments originally set out in a way to form a circle or ellipse.
However, it's easy to overlook the dozens of other stone circles which can be found across the British Isles and even as far afield as Israel. We gathered some other stone circles - one of which is underwater - that demonstrate the diversity of neolithic monuments.
Calanais I Stones, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
Calanais II Stones, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
Standing Stones of Stenness, Orkney Islands
Beltany Ancient Standing Stone Circle , Donegal, Northern Ireland
The Machrie Moor Stone Circle, The Isle of Arran, Scotland
The Ring of Brodgar, Heart of Neolithic Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland
The Duddo Five Stones, North Northumberland
The stone circle of Atlit Yam, Haifa, Israel
Nine Maidens, Penzance, Cornwall
Welsh Crown of Thorns, North Wales
World's largest prehistoric stone circle, Avebury in Wiltshire, England
Long Meg and Her Daughters circle, Penrith, Cumbria
Castlerigg Stone Circle, Cumbria, Keswick
Ardgroom Stone Circle, County Cork, Ireland
Kirkton of Bourtie stone circle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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Orkney in Scotland. Skaill House to Standing Stones of Stenness
Its a stunning day on Orkney, this is the brief drive from Skaill House at Skara Brae to the Standing Stones of Stenness
According to the wiki, its a neolithic monument that maybe older then Stone Henge.
BTW Skaill House is a fabulous place to stay if you're spending a few days on Orkney.
Ring of Brodgar
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Scotland | Part 6 of 'Standing with Stones'
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The overriding impression of monuments north of the border is that of a sense of purpose. If form follows function then the people here must have been on a mission -- but who knows what it may have been?
This is the sixth of a complete seven-part online edition of Standing with Stones. If you've ever dreamed of travelling through Great Britain & Ireland, visiting the standing stones and other fantastic monuments that our ancient ancestors left us, then you will love this film. Over two years in the making, Standing with Stones was made by just two men with great film making skills, a camper van and a passion for the monuments in stone left to us by Neolithic and Bronze Age ancestors. The result is a remarkable feature length documentary film that take the viewer on a journey of discovery, uncovering the true extent and variety of megalithic Britain and Ireland.
In this episode, Twelve Apostles, Cairnholy, Glenquicken, Achnabreck, Cairnbaan, Ballymeanoch, Great X, Nether Largie, Templewood, Leys of Marlee, Cothiemuir Wood, East Aquorthies, Loanhead of Daviot, Old Kieg, Midmar Kirk, Sunhoney, Clava Cairns.
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