Barnhouse Stone Standing Stone Stenness, Scotland
Scheduled Monument Data
Barnhouse Stone Standing Stone has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since scheduling.
- Historic Scotland ID
- SM0
- Name
- Barnhouse Stone, standing stone
- Parish
- Stenness
- County
- Orkney Islands
- Easting
- 331284
- Northing
- 1012170
- Categories
- Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone
- Date Listed
- 17 February 1938
- Date Amended
- 22 April 1998
Scheduled Monument Description
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
The monument consists of a standing stone and associated remains relating to its setting up and use which may survive in the area around it. The stone was originally scheduled as part of a larger group of stones, including the Stones of Stenness, but is now to be protected, in an expanded area, in its own right.
The 'Barnhouse Stone', also occasionally called the 'Barn Stone' stands some 3.2m high and is about 0.2m thick. It expands upwards, from 1.1m wide at ground level to 1.8m wide at about 2.4m up. The stone stands on the projected line of the passage of the nearby chambered tomb of Maes Howe.
The area to be scheduled is circular, 40m in diameter, and is intended to help preserve the stone itself and any remains in the surrounding ground which might provide evidence for the context of raising up and use of the stone. The scheduling excludes the above-ground portion of the fence around the stone.
