What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Papa Stour, Tiptans as Stone Circle (neolithic) - (bronze Age). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Dated to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this stone circle likely served ceremonial or astronomical purposes. No specific folklore is recorded, but such sites were often linked to communal gatherings or ritual activity in prehistoric Scotland.
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Places near here
Papa Stour, Hamna VoeStructure(s) (period Unassigned) · 676 yd
Papa Stour, Biggings, Kirk and Kirkyard, War MemorialBurial Ground (19th Century), Church (19th Century), War Memorial (20th Century) (1921) · 1206 yd
Papa StourGeneral View (period Unassigned) · 1307 yd
Norse StofaMuseum · 1319 yd
Papa Stour, Sindrins, Hand CraneCrane (period Unassigned) · 1.2 mi
Brei HolmIslet · 1.4 mi
Virda FieldMountain / peak · 1.7 mi
Hill of MelbyMountain / peak · 2.7 mi
Voe of SnarranessBay · 4.7 mi
Galta StackIslet · 5.1 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 6.7 mi