Stines Moss

. [United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Orkney Mainland, 1:50,000 scale, 2003]

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. [J. Gunn, "Orkney, the Magnetic North", Thomas Nelson and Sons, Edinburgh (1932)] 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.

ee also

*Mill of Ayreland
*Midmoss

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