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Calanais Stones
The Calanais (Callanish) Stones are a prehistoric stone circle with a tall central monolith and several rows of standing stones forming a cross-shaped layout on a low ridge above Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis. Built in the Neolithic, the monument is the central element of a wider complex of stone circles and alignments in the surrounding landscape.
Its prime
2750 BC
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 2750 BC
What Calanais Stones looked like in its prime.
A ring of roughly worked Lewisian gneiss monoliths around a tall central rudder-shaped monolith, with several linear rows radiating away to form an avenue and cross-like plan. Stones vary in height (average ~3 m; central stone ~4.8 m), their surfaces weathered grey with patches of lichen. The setting is a short grassy ridge overlooking Loch Roag with distant low hills; no roofs or built enclosures, only open sky and the irregular silhouetted verticals.
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10 places to explore in 2750 BC.
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