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Lochview Standing Stones and Cairn is a Bronze Age monument located in Orkney, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The site comprises standing stones arranged with a cairn, typical of ritual or burial monuments constructed during the second millennium BCE. The monument sits on bedrock of Middle Old Red Sandstone, a conglomerate and sandstone formation laid down during the Middle Devonian period, which has weathered into the distinctive reddish soils characteristic of Orkney's landscape.
Standing stone monuments in Orkney represent some of the most substantial Bronze Age ceremonial architecture in northern Britain. These structures often served as focal points for communal gatherings, funerary practices or territorial markers within Bronze Age societies. The combination of standing stones with an associated cairn at Lochview suggests a site of significant local importance, possibly functioning as a burial monument or ritual centre.
The Orkney islands, with their treeless landscape and exposed bedrock, provided ideal conditions for the preservation of such monuments. The local geology—durable red sandstone from the Old Red Sandstone formation—would have offered suitable stone for dressing and shaping the uprights. This monument remains a tangible record of Bronze Age settlement and ceremonial practice in the northern Isles.
Lochview, standing stones and cairn SE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7647. View the official record →
Lochview Standing Stones and Cairn is a Bronze Age monument located in Orkney, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7647.
Lochview, standing stones and cairn SE of dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a standing stones and cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Lochview, standing stones and cairn SE of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM7647.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Little Barnhouse, mound, 160m NE of (1.2 km), Diamond Cottage,defended promontory N of (2.3 km), Knowe of Onston,or Unstan,chambered cairn (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Lochview, standing stones and cairn SE of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Lochview, standing stones and cairn SE of stands on Middle Old Red Sandstone (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.