Tingwall Stone

Going to or from Scalloway, the former capital of Shetland, along the road B9074, you cannot miss this 2 m stone, standing on the eastern roadside between two lakes in about 1.5 km southward of Law Ting Holm, the place of Shetland Ting.

The second name of the monument, the Murder Stone, is plausibly connected with the death of Malise Sperra, Lord of Skaldale, who was killed in a battle with his cousin Henry Sinclair, the 1st Earl of Orkney at Tingwall in 1389 or 1391. Seven of his supporters fell with him. The standing stone erected to commemorate his death at the place where he died. For further details please visit the following website: www.megalithic.co.uk