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Traveler Rating
13 reviews 7 travel blogs 5 photos Attraction Type:
Historic site, Mysterious site
Traveler PhotosStanding Stones of Stenness Orkney Islands
Related BlogsStanding Stones of Stenness Orkney Islands
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Older than the Pyramids
... Rick quickly caught up. For your information we walked anti-clockwise, once. From the bus we also passed the remaining Standing Stones of Stenness and the tomb mound, Maeshowe. To finish off the trip we stopped at the Italian Chapel, built by Italian ...
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Day 171 - 18 August - A look around Orkney
... quite intreresting. After this we went for a drive up through the middle of the mainland to have a look at the standing stones of Stenness. It's a stone henge that is quite a bit older than THE stonehenge but thanks to an overzealous farmer armed with ...
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The Orkneys
... . 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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Exploring the neolithic sites on Orkney
... weather was nice now) and admired the water, very pretty. two other sites we stopped by were the Ring of Brodgar and the Standing stones of Stenness, both rings of stones like stonehenge. the first one was nor impressive, originally it would have had 60 ...
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Orkney Islands
... is know about who erected the circle or what it's purpose was, best guess is that it's purpose was ceremonial. the Standing Stones of Stenness is similar to the Ring of Brodgar but larger (stones are about 20 feet high) and much older (dates ...
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Standing stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar
... side of chips. Along with the glass of Coke the bill came to £ 11.50. We then headed to the Ring of Brogan and the standing stones. Most of the people took the long walk up to the top of the ring. I went half way, and then had to make a dash back to ...
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Highlands & Islands
... still remain and which are popular with divers. On our way back we had another stop; this time at the Standing Stones of Stenness, one of the earliest known stone circles, dating from the Neolithic age. Back on the Marco Polo time was ...
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