Stines Moss

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Stines Moss with North Dales in the background. Photo credit: c. Michael Hogan
Stines Moss with North Dales in the background. Photo credit: c. Michael Hogan

Stines Moss is an elevated bog in the southwest upland area of the Orkney Mainland, Scotland.[1]

[edit] Prehistory and history

This moss is located a few miles south of very significant Neolithic and Iron Age archaeological sites. A few miles to the north are the Standing Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar.[2] About four miles to the northeast is the Iron Age Maes Howe site.

The Burn of Ayreland flows through this moss, and thence proceeds in a northwesterly direction to power the Mill of Ayreland before discharging to the Clestrain Sound; this mill functioned since the Late Middle Ages; this mill functioned into at least the late 1880s. The mill is now operated as a country inn.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ United Kingdom Ordinance Survey Map Landranger 45, Orkney Mainland, 1:50,000 scale, 2003
  2. ^ J. Gunn, Orkney, the Magnetic North, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Edinburgh (1932)


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