Many megalithic monuments have been associated with legends of giants, the Dwarfie Stane in Orkney is no exception. Except this megalith is only six feet tall and has a unique moniker. Carved out of a block of Devonian Old Red Sandstone, the Dwarfie Stane is a glacial erratic and chambered tomb dating back many millennia, somewhere between the Neolithic and Bronze Age. It can be found in a peatland valley on the island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands. The stone was made popular by the 1821 novel The Pirate by Walter…
