Barnhouse Settlement

Very cool! A short walk from the Standing Stones of Stenness and you find yourself at a mini Skara Brae where you don't have to pay and can wonder around inside the ruins! Definitely worth adding 10 minutes to your visit to check this place out. Beautiful views across the loch and free parking nearby!

A short walk from the standing stones. Very quiet, not many visitors for some reason. It's like a mini Skara Brae but free to visit and you can walk around inside what is left of the buildings and get a real.good feel for what they may have been like. Right next to the water and well maintained. We spent six hours here but wouldn't suggest you'd need more than ten minutes unless you have your own entertainment there.

A short walk from the Standing stones lies the Barnhouse settlement. Quiet, serene, right beside the water and free to visit. Another piece of the Neolithic jigsaw puzzle which makes Orkney a unique and beautiful place.

Really good, accessed via the adjacent stone circle or from the road that crosses the causeway. Almost as impressive and well preserved as Scara Brae, and with the added bonus of being completely free! AND empty of tourists. Big thumbs up.

Impressive archaeological site. A must see in Orkney. Very close to the standing stones, so definitely worth visiting. But be ready for rain.

Flat grass path to site about 150m from standing stones

A short walk along a from the standing stones at Stenness. This ancient settlement is intriguing. Similar to the more famous Skara Brae, but no where near as busy. Well worth a look, the excavations are reasonably new (1984) and it does look as though there is more archeology to be uncovered. All very interesting.

Greetings Space Cadets, By the south shore of the Harray loch, on a point of land called Antaness, around 150 metres to the north of the Standing Stones o' Stenness, are the remains of an Orcadian Stone Age settlement. Now known simply as the Barnhouse Settlement, only the reconstructed lower courses of a small section of the village's stonework are visible today.