Stanydale

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{{Infobox UK place

|country = Scotland

|static_image_name= Cattle grid, Stanydale (geograph 3556077).jpg

|static_image_caption= The road towards the hamlet of Stanydale

|coordinates = {{coord|60.242|-1.486|display=inline,title}}

|official_name= Stanydale

|population =

|civil_parish= Sandsting

|unitary_scotland= Shetland

|constituency_westminster= Orkney and Shetland

|constituency_scottish_parliament= Shetland

|post_town= SHETLAND

|postcode_district = ZE2

|postcode_area= ZE

|dial_code= 01595

|os_grid_reference= HU285505

}}

Stanydale is a hamlet on the island of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland.

The archaeological site of Stanydale Temple is less than {{convert|0.5|mi}} to the south of the crofters' houses.{{sfn|MacDonald|1946|p=102}}

There are three cairns on the ridge to the north of the hamlet, just over {{convert|100|ft}} above the sea.{{sfn|MacDonald|1946|p=107}}

The west cairn was described in 1931 as "A round cairn, about 50' in diameter and 3' high, which has been much destroyed."{{sfn|Stanydale, West Cairn}}

References

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  • {{cite book |last=MacDonald|first=George|title=Twelfth report with an inventory of the ancient monuments of Orkney & Shetland

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84nSAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2013-02-05|year=1946|publisher=H. M. Stationery off.}}

  • {{cite web |ref={{harvid|Stanydale, West Cairn}} |url=http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=401

|title=Stanydale, West Cairn |work=Scotlands Places

|access-date=2013-02-05}}

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