Part of the Ring of Brodgar stone circle, superbly located between the Loch of Stenness and the Loch of Harray on Orkney's West Mainland. When erected, over 4,000 years ago, 60 stones stood here: now there are 36. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/westmainland/ringofbrodgar/index.html

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Printed monochrome postcard showing the "Stones of Stennis", or the Ring of Brodgar on Mainland, Orkney. Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd of Dundee & London in the Valentine's Series. Not numbered. Postally unused, but is c.1905.

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We found this A/P etching by Dennis Ward in a vintage place in Leith today. Titled ‘Confrontation at Brodgar, Orkney’, it has a brooding light-and-darkness quality reminiscent of many of Orkney’s landscapes.

It turns out Ward was latterly Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies at Edinburgh University, and in fact the first Professor of Russian there, and was chair of Edinburgh Printmakers in the late 1990s.

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@Broadfork @mark_ohe
Yes, pretty much. Those in the second pic aren't at Stenness, though, but the Ring of Brodgar, less than a mile up the road from Stenness. That part of Orkney Mainland was very busy in Neolithic times, and there's an amazing collection of remains.
Here are those stones in May this year from a different angle.

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Part of the Ring of Brodgar stone circle, superbly located between the Loch of Stenness and the Loch of Harray on Orkney's West Mainland. When erected, over 4,000 years ago, 60 stones stood here: now there are 36. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/westmainland/ringofbrodgar/index.html

#Scotland #Orkney #RingOfBrodgar #StoneCircle #Neolithic #WestMainland #UndiscoveredScotland

My sister-in-law and her husband moved to #Orkney this year. I thought they were crazy (too isolated for me) but we just spent a week visiting and my God it's beautiful. All of a sudden I understand the appeal

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