Dwarfie Stane in Kirkwall

Honestly amazing piece of history, to be hollowed out by basically bits of harder stone, then have famous people from later history graffiti on that piece of history is brilliant!!

Thousands of years old and no one knows what it was used for. This family had brought grandson for a photographic rite of passage - as done for father, grandmother and so on back. Limited parking and a stiff tramp along a boardwalk (beware some of the planks are rotten and may give way). Well worth the short detour on your way back from "The Old Man of Hoy".

Strangely atmospheric olace

The headrest is actually quite comfortable

Amazing to think this was done at a time without modern tools or even metal, they just had a harder stone to grind out the softer dwarfie stones inside. Definitely worth a visit! Also love the legend around it.

Easy to get to curiosity

Amazing. I would suggest to camp here for a night at least to feel this place which has time history of 5000+ years

Go! Sing! Drum your chest!

Well.. Its a stone, with a hole in it and some inscriptions on the back made by victorian vandals. Interesting to see, I have no idea what could i write about it :-)Beatiful scenery, short walk from the car park, rather not accessible for people with mobility issues.

Once across the valley floor on the marked footpath (leaves the road opposite the parking bay), the tomb is stunningly well crafted. You can climb right inside and various features are visible. Some of the inscriptions need a light to view - I used my phone. Its cramped, but you can see it all just by sticking your head in. The valley outside is serene but bad weather would make visiting much tougher.

Well worth the walk up, if only for the view.

2020年2月に訪問。駐車場有。一般的にはSTROMNESSから小型船に乗ってHOY島へ渡り歩いて現地まで行くが、私はレンタカーだったので、Hautonからカーフェリーで島に渡った。駐車場から木道を伝って20分ほど歩く。雪はのぼり道です。途中湿地帯を歩くので長靴などが必要です。石の中の穴へは入ることが出来ます。

this is not a tomb. it is a very likely an ancient place of initiation into the mysteries of Odin, and a search into the material in the Kirkwall Librarys Orkney Room will make that at least a little more clear. it has many stories associated with it which have been written down from the sventeenth century forward and are no doubrt older than that, and none are of a tomb. this place was a center for some sort of effort to train ancient peoples in the craft of knowing well to die consciously, which could be why there is a neolithic village directly below it. it would have supported a sort of monastery.as many myths around odin and dwarfs and the giants illustrate. the dwarf is the clever fashioner of chaos [giants] into a form so that one could move consciously through the bardos. the giants are what we see as terror, and figure as heavily in the swirl of legend around the dwarfie stane as do the dwarfs. Odin is the initiate and the traveler who succeeds in moving consciously through death to rebirth..very similar to tibetan buddhism for a contemperary example.

If you are on holiday in Orkney and making a trip over to Hoy the Dwsrfie Stane is well worth a visit.

Huge stone hollowed out to provide a tomb. Its on the road to Rackwick Bay, about 500yds to the south. The path through the heather and moors is a narrow boardwalk. The location is awesome. I visited it on a bright and sunny day, with stunning views to Mainland

A 10min walk from the road along a well kept path is a large rock which contains a once hidden tomb. The plug stone of tge tomb is on the ground next to the small entrance.

Neolithic tomb, plonked in the valley leading to Rackwick, directly below the nesting site of Hoys sea eagles, which is very pleasing for twitchers and followers of Hassan-i-Sabbah alike...

Would be fun as an over night shelter!

Great views at the Dwarfie Stane. Worth the short walk and saw the White Tailed Eagles there too :-)

Loved visiting this beautiful spot.

Awe-inspiring feat of achievement by people with no metal tools to use to carve out the Chambers.

Lovely place to visit. But hard to find

spectacular and seen 2 dwarfs

So interesting, well worth the walk to it.

As ancient stones go, this is one mighty impressive. Mysteriously carved out by forgotten technologies and stunning location offsets this from the normal. Well worth a trek across the well laid pathway.

Revisit every time I get to Hoy. Interesting tomb with short walk over duck boards and rough rocky ground. Not suitable for wheelchair. Can be good location to see many spp of flora n fauna

Interesting place in the middle of moorlands of Isle of Hoy. Most likely a prehistoric tomb cut within a single large stone, originally thought to be a dwelling site of a hermit.

Good path for the walk up from a designated, free car park. Fascinating place, mind bogglingly old, cut out with stone tools. The only chambered tomb cut from rock rather than built from stones on Orkney.

Fascinating, but puzzling, artifact.

Great walk to a historic place

Amazing!! Loved it. Crawled inside too. 😊

The work that went into it is bewildering

Lovely walk to it and surroundings.But we found some woman sleeping in it with all her shite everywhere. My partner who made the extra effort to get there was really disappointed and so was i. Ok fair play thats pretty cool sleeping in a tomb but she wasnt happy we woke her up.Never got inside so no idea on it.