
north-eastern corner of henge earthwork
north-eastern corner of henge earthwork
almost entire circle platform showing also bank and ditch
view along eastern side of henge bank with Watch Stone visible at left. Kokna Cumming mound is light patch right of front cottage, Brodgar stone pair is further along in between front and rear right cottage with Ness of Brodgar excavation behind buildings. In original image at full mag I can just, on my PC, make out the Ring of Bookan and Bookan cairns on the skyline beyond the mound
view along Axis A with stub iii and Comet Stone, just visible top right edge of Ring of Brodgar
bands in stone break looking down on stub i
mound in its setting (eroding post base top left)
view of N’ern slope from roadside uphill
Standing Stones of Stenness and Watch Stone, as seen from Grimeston road (Vola site is directly behind bushes left of foreground hut)
Ring of Brodgar & main Broidgar mounds seen from Grimeston road
mound with top and right-hand stones visible (LH edge of mound only just off picture)
LH and top stones with cow other side of fieldwall as size guide
height of mound ‘revealed’ from burn with left-hand and top stones visible
W-E profile seen from shore southwards, broch wall left planticru right
view from W of central mound with broch wall, dark patches to right ‘hide’ brown stones of base
cut from W with broch wall and ?floor (stones top right are of the planticru)
more complex eastern half of broch walling – note flags top right, below mound top
hollow from mound top with two wall courses visible right and other stones to its right in view but masked
buildings in distance site of The Howe tomb>broch>Viking settlement
S-N profile from road, possible hollow off-centre
S-N view from road, low mound just visible near centre of profile
main portion of mound, tomb of eagles site just visible as slight rise at back of centre
exposures on side and top of mound, Fairy Knowe [as presently identified] just visible in background
exposure atop mound – probably standing stone was at back of this but eroded completely after the several decades since
NW/SE aligned 50x26x12cm split orthostat possibly standing stone
stone pile on an overlooking [presumably natural] bank/mound
mound from features outside bank, standing stone fragment split orthostat bottom left
split stone (remains of standing stone) along with middling stones, some embedded in possible linear feature