Mor Stein Standing Stone
This cache is a 80ml container with logbook and pen with room for small
swaps and trackables.
Mor Stein is a Neolithic standing stone in the south-eastern part of the
Orkney isle of Shapinsay. A vertical standing stone of approximately 10 feet in height, Mor Stein is
unshaped and uncarved and stands in a field somewhat separate from any other man-made features of
the island. There is a chambered cairn (known as Castle Bloody) visible from the stone and in between a
number of stone cists are recorded. Local folklore relates that the stone landed at its current location
after being thrown by a giant at his fleeing wife. A few years before 1928 it was overthrown and re-erected,
losing a portion of its upper part in the process. Recorded as 12 feet (3.66m) high in 1796, it is now 2.9m
high measured from the surface of the grassy stump on which it is set; the width averages 0.95m and
thickness 0.45m, the major axis being E-W."