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

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Looking S at Callanish (Calanais) Standing Stones showing part of the central ring with chambered cairn and tall monolith, plus the S stone row heading towards the Cnoc an Tursa knoll. 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.

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Size: 4032px × 6048px
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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