Region : Orkney Island : Mainland Town or village : Stenness Grid Reference : HY 312 121 Period : Prehistory Barnhouse Stone (Barn Stone) STANDING STONE

This beautiful standing stone is 3.2m high and only 18cm thick. Its breadth varies from 1.1m at the base to 1.8m when almost two thirds above the ground. This stone is likely to have some connection with the site of the Stones of Stenness, some 700m north-west. And maybe also with Maes Howe, a chambered tomb 700m north-east: Barnhouse Stone is perfectly aligned to the entrance of the tomb. During the midwinter solstice, when the rays of the sun shine down Maes Howe's passage and into the chamber, they shine exactly over the top of the monolith.

Other single standing stones ------------------ Auquhollie Barnhouse Stone Beacharra Borvemore Busta Caiystane Camus nan Geall Clach an Trushal Clach Mhic Leòid Clach Mhic Mhios Comet Stone Kintraw Skellister (Auld Wife) Stone of Setter Strontoiller Tingwall (Murder Stone) Watch Stone Other sites in Orkney ---------------------- Barnhouse Settlement Barnhouse Stone Blackhammer Comet Stone Cuween Hill Dwarfie Stane Grain Gurness Holm of Papa Westray North Holm of Papa Westray South Isbister (Tomb of the Eagles) Knap of Howar Knowe of Lairo Knowe of Yarso Liddle Maes Howe Midhowe Broch Midhowe Chambered Cairn Rennibister Ring of Brodgar (Brogar) Skara Brae Stone of Setter Stones of Stenness Taversoe Tuick Unstan Vinquoy Watch Stone Wideford Hill