Photo taken 7th August 2015. Stone reflecting the shape of the hills on the horizon perhaps?
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Photo taken 7th August. More like Machrie marsh after the recent rains, plenty of dragonflies though!
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Photo taken 7th August 2015. Fingal’s Cauldron Seat.
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Photo taken 7th August 2015. Machrie moor with its beautiful backdrop of hills.
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Photo taken 26th June 2015. A beautiful summers evening at Dry Tree, with the moon out above the stone.
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Photo taken 26th June 2015. Dry Tree menhir, with the barrow of Cruc Draenoc visible in the background. From this angle the stone reminded me of a friendly giant with a very small head!
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Photo taken 26th June 2015. Cruc Draenoc, ‘Barrow of the Thorns’, topped by its trig point and neighbouring concrete post, with the Dry Tree menhir visible in the background.
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Photo taken 26th June 2015. Looking out from the cool dark interior. The atmosphere in this place is amazing!
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Photo taken 26th June 2015. Looking towards the modern steps which lead into the entrance of the fogou.
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Photo taken 26th June 2015. The long curving passageway inside the fogou seems never ending!
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Photo taken 26th June 2015. In the smallest part of the northern creep, looking down from what would have been the original entrance. The light visible is Ellen shining her torch to check I haven’t wedged myself stuck!
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Photo taken 26th June 2015. Looking out of the fogou to the verdant green swathed entranceway.
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Photo taken 22nd May 2015.
Looking back towards Spurdagrove farm. The recumbent is visible on the other side of the fence to the right of the standing stone. (I initially thought it was just a boulder!)
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Photo taken 22nd May 2015. Marsh marigolds give testament to the boggy ground at the bottom of the field where the stone stands. The rickety gate is visible to the right of shot that I climbed over to reach the stone.
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Photo taken 17th May 2015. Looking back at the Long Cairn, just in the background to the left of the mound Wideford hill is visible.
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Photo taken 17th May 2015. Looking down the length of the long cairn, the vague outline of the horned enclosure at the front is visible when you stand there (but less so in the pictures!)
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Photo taken 17th May 2015. Chamber atop the mound, looking out towards the island of Shapinsay across the water.
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Photo taken 17th May 2015. Looking east at the mound, the cairn material piled up as a windbreak clearly visible.
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Photo taken 17th May 2015. The green lump of the Long Cairn stands out amongst the brown heather moorland as you approach along the Head of Work.
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Photo taken on 17th May 2015. The stone at Stembister surveys the sea.
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Photo taken 7th March 2015.
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Photo taken 7th March 2015.
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7th March 2015. The stone at a distance. To me it looks like a cowled figure walking through the woods...
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Photo taken 7th March 2015.
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Photo taken 7th March 2015. The glorious views from Five Wells spoiled only slightly by the unsightly quarry to the right of shot.
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Photo taken 7th March 2015. Looking north at the two chambers of Five Wells.
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Photo taken 7th March 2015. Inside the eastern chamber. Quite a comfortable place to sit and ponder, or shelter from the wind!
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Photo taken 7th March 2015. The western chamber of Five Wells perched on its denuded mound.
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Photo taken 11th May 2014. The well kept interior of Staneydale Temple.
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Photo taken 11th May 2014. Amazing mosaic effect on the stones at Stanydale.
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Photo taken 11th May 2014. Storm clouds starting to mass over Stanydale The stones in the centre of the shot are the remains of the posthole.
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Photo taken 11th May 2014. What remains of the arc of standing stones around the ‘temple’.
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Photo taken 11th May 2014. Stanydale Temple and information board.
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Photo taken 17th May 2014. One of Orkney’s best standing stones.
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Photo taken 17th May 2014. The wonderful Stone of Setter, do you really need a sign?
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Photo taken 17th May 2014. The ‘giant hand’ of the stone, with Mill Loch beyond.
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Vinquoy on 17th May 2014. I think it’s one of the best chambered tombs in the Orkney’s.
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Photo taken 17th May 2014. Wonderful ferns and lichens grow inside the tomb. This photo of the skylight in the ceiling reminded me of the moon.
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Photo taken 17th May 2014. Some of the side chambers inside Vinquoy, everything made of this lovely warm red Eday sandstone.
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Photo taken 17th May 2014. Wonderful views out from the tomb, the Calf of Eday is the island visible to the right of the picture.
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Photo taken 17th May 2014. A couple of the orthostats from the interior stalls still stand. The ever present mound of the Vinquoy tomb is visible on the horizon, just to the left of the picture.
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Photo taken 17th May 2014. Looking out down the entrance passage, which is slightly offset to line up with the Stone of Setter, shame the byre partially blocks the view!
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Huntersquoy on 17th May 2014. Obviously popular with the local sheep, as there was enough wool left behind here to make a jumper!
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Photo taken 17th May 2014. The fern shrouded, flooded lower entrance to Huntersquoy.
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Photo taken 17th May 2014. The remains of Hunterquoy, the tomb of Vinquoy is visible atop the hill to the right of the picture.
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Photo taken 14th May 2014. The mound of Quanterness in the sunshine.
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Photo taken 14th March 2014. The mound of Quanterness nestles amongst the trees surrounded by a carpet of wild flowers.
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Photo taken 14th May 2014. Bluebells on the side of the Quanterness barrow.
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Photo taken 14th May 2014. Wideford hill, it’s a lovely place!
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