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    The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I": Scottish Gaelic: Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais) are an arrangement of standing stones placed in a cruciform...
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    (local area's website) Panoramas of the Callanish Standing Stones (QuickTime required) Canmore - Lewis, Callanish site record Canmore - Calanais, Calanais...
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    circle. See also Callanish IV, Callanish VIII and Callanish X for other minor sites. The stone circle consists of seven thin standing stones arranged in the...
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    from the Callanish II stone circle. See also Callanish IV, Callanish VIII and Callanish X for other minor sites. "Site Record for Lewis, Callanish, Cnoc...
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    cairn and some evidence of Bronze Age occupation were found here. The Callanish Stones in the Loch Ròg area were erected roughly 5,000 years ago, thus dating...
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    of locations of historical and archaeological interest, including: Callanish Stones associated with the Clan Morrison among others Dun Carloway Broch Iron...
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  • important pre-Christian religious sites. The most significant is the Callanish Stones on the isle of Lewis, which are notable megalithic sites dating back...
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    from the Neolithic period, the finest example being the standing stones at Callanish, dating to the 3rd millennium BC. Cladh Hallan, a Bronze Age settlement...
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    The Callanish VIII stone setting is one of many megalithic structures around the better-known (and larger) Calanais I on the west coast of the Isle of...
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    (a type of artificial island). The Callanish Stones, dating from about 2900 BC, are the finest example of a stone circle in Scotland, the 13 primary monoliths...
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    2011. See for example Cladh Hallan and the impressive ruins of the Callanish Stones and Skara Brae. Murray (1966) claims that Ptolemy's "Ebudae" was originally...
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    being built of local stone. Evidence of sophisticated pre-Christian belief systems is demonstrated by sites such as the Callanish Stones on Lewis and the...
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    Most of the stones are within the Breton municipality of Carnac, but some to the east are within neighboring La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected...
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    took several trips to Foula to study prehistoric standing stones. A particular sub-circular stone circle of interest was discovered in 2006 at Da Heights...
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    henge monument at Avebury, the Rollright Stones, Castlerigg, and elements within the ring of standing stones at Stonehenge. Scattered examples exist from...
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    Warren Field (category Stone Age sites in Scotland)
    Scotland Prehistoric Britain Neolithic British Isles Göbekli Tepe Callanish Stones Stonehenge "'World's oldest calendar' discovered in Scottish field"...
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    sold, and the castle's condition subsequently deteriorated. Some of its stone was used as ballast for fishing vessels, and some even ended up as paving...
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  • " The theme spread to the packaging, with the cover depicting the Callanish Stones, a site with a cruciform layout that predates Christ by at least 2...
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    Stones of Stenness Prehistoric Shetland Zenith of Iron Age Shetland: Broch of Mousa Jarlshof Old Scatness Prehistoric Western Isles Callanish Stones Dun...
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    Stones of Stenness Prehistoric Shetland Zenith of Iron Age Shetland: Broch of Mousa Jarlshof Old Scatness Prehistoric Western Isles Callanish Stones Dun...
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    the chapel door was a heap of small stones, "into which the Superstituous People when they come, do cast a small stone or two for their offering, and some...
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    Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021. Stones, Jake (22 December 2020) “Scotland outlines hydrogen policy to 2045” Archived...
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  • Stones of Stenness Prehistoric Shetland Zenith of Iron Age Shetland: Broch of Mousa Jarlshof Old Scatness Prehistoric Western Isles Callanish Stones Dun...
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    support to this case and a nearby hillock may have been a broch from which stones were removed to build the pier at Scalloway. The name Papil in the south...
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    comprises the large chambered tomb of Maes Howe, the ceremonial stone circles the Standing Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar and the Neolithic village...
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    Hyperborea with the Isle of Lewis, and the spherical temple with the Callanish Stones. Along with Thule, Hyperborea was one of several terrae incognitae...
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    album's inner sleeve on LP releases features a photograph of Callanish Stones, a neolithic stone arrangement on Lewis in Scotland. On later releases of the...
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    that era include the Standing Stones of Stenness, the Maeshowe passage grave, the Ring of Brodgar and other standing stones. Many of the Neolithic settlements...
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    dating from up to 3000 BC, the finest example being the standing stones at Callanish, but some archaeologists date the site as Bronze Age. Little is known...
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    archaeological relics from that period are symbol stones. One of the best examples of these stones is on the Brough of Birsay: It depicts three warriors...
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