Looking ESE at Callanish (Calanais) Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis: central ring with chambered cairn & tall monolith plus stones of S row (R).

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Looking ESE at Callanish (Calanais) Standing Stones showing central ring with chambered cairn and tall monolith plus stones of the S row to R. An Early Bronze Age (3rd & 2nd millennium BC) ceremonial complex/astronomical observatory: stones of Lewisian gneiss form a flattened ring and cross shape with an avenue/double row to the NNE, single rows to the S, E & W. Loch Roag visible to rear.

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Location: Callanish (Calanais) Standing Stones, Breasclete, West Side, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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