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<< Our Photo Pages >> Callanish 7 - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Scotland in Isle of Lewis

Submitted by SumDood on Monday, 30 January 2023  Page Views: 12052

Multi-periodSite Name: Callanish 7 Alternative Name: Cnoc Dubh, Callanish VII, Calanais 7
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Lewis Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Stornoway  Nearest Village: Callanish
Map Ref: NB232302  Landranger Map Number: 8
Latitude: 58.173552N  Longitude: 6.709553W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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markj99 visited on 3rd Jul 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 On passing through this site I found a charming reconstructed shieling hut (but no stone circle).

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Callanish 7
Callanish 7 submitted by SumDoood : The location of the seam as viewed from the roadside. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A site on the Isle of Lewis, a few hundred metres from the southern shores of Loch Ceann Hulabhig, Mistakenly named as a Calanais site by Alexander Thom. It is very likely that site is a ruined shieling (shepherd's hut) - see photos on our page. However close by is small vein of quartz at the knoll of Cnoc Dubh (pictured top). Following investigations by archaeologist Torben Bjarke Ballin this was identified as having been worked in prehistoric times. More details below on our page.

The quartz vein is at at NGR NB 2318 2998.
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Callanish 7
Callanish 7 submitted by markj99 : Callanish VII Shieling Hut. (03.07.11) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Callanish 7
Callanish 7 submitted by markj99 : Corbelled Roof of Callanish VII Shieling Hut. (03.07.11) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Callanish 7
Callanish 7 submitted by markj99 : Callanish VII Shieling Hut. (03.07.11) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Callanish 7
Callanish 7 submitted by SumDoood : The seam in its modern setting. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Callanish 7
Callanish 7 submitted by SumDoood : The location of the site as shown on the map seems not to match the principle photograph. On 060818 at the location NB232302 I took my photograph of the quarried quartz seam when directed to it by Margaret Curtis (who, being less than agile, remained in my van at the roadside). She had told me to look for the pink-orange areas particularly which indicate the smashing off of chunks of quartz ... (1 comment)

Callanish 7
Callanish 7 submitted by Tom_Bullock : Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM

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 299m NW 311° Callanish 4* Stone Circle (NB2298830412)
 377m SE 139° Callanish 5* Stone Row / Alignment (NB23432990)
 509m SSE 165° Callanish 9* Standing Stones (NB233297)
 1.5km E 80° Callanish 6* Standing Stones (NB24653034)
 1.5km SE 125° Callanish 18* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NB24402923)
 1.9km NNE 11° Callanish 17* Stone Circle (NB237320)
 1.9km NNW 340° Cnoc Fillibhir Mhor* Stone Row / Alignment (NB22683207)
 2.5km NNW 333° Loch Roag Timber Circle (NB222325)
 2.6km NNW 341° Callanish 3* Stone Circle (NB2251532710)
 2.6km NNW 334° Callanish 2* Stone Circle (NB2221432614)
 2.7km NNW 348° Callanish 14* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NB228329)
 3.2km NNW 330° Callanish 19* Stone Circle (NB218331)
 3.4km NW 322° Callanish* Stone Circle (NB2129833013)
 3.4km NW 322° Callanish I* Stone Circle (NB2128633009)
 3.4km N 352° Callanish 10* Stone Circle (NB22973362)
 4.1km NNW 328° Callanish 16* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NB213338)
 4.2km NNW 332° Callanish 13* Standing Stones (NB215341)
 4.7km NNW 339° Olcote Kerbed Cairn* Cairn (NB2179634733)
 5.0km NNW 337° Callanish 12* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NB2155634967)
 5.6km NNW 346° Callanish 11* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NB22233569)
 5.7km NNW 334° Cnoc a Phrionnsa* Chambered Cairn (NB211355)
 7.0km NW 304° Callanish 15* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NB177345)
 7.6km WNW 299° Dun Barraglom Broch or Nuraghe (NB16773435)
 7.7km WNW 298° Barraglom Cup-Marked Rock Rock Art (NB167343)
 7.7km WNW 296° Callanish 8A* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NB165340)
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Re: The worked quartz vein at Cnoc Dubh, Uig parish, Isles of Lewis by PERKYPUFFIN on Monday, 20 March 2023
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At Gallows Hill, Stornoway , Isle of Lewis is a ring cairn . Dated Neolithic. At least 5 kerbstones still in situ. In medieval times thought to be a place where publc hangings carried out. May I suggest a new site for this. Within Lews Castle grounds, open access 24 hours. No official archaeology dig ever carried out. Display panel nearby shows a picture of a huge tomb, similar to a small Newgrange. From what I can see, site looks flat and circular, large 1m high 3 ton stones defining the edge, no henge ditch. Extensive walls and structures nearby, so many stones of a large cairn could have vanished from the site. On the seaward side (SE) the land slopes down to Sober Island. 2 X 1m boulders of milky quartz seen amongst moss covered rocks, this area looks like early burial site. The two quartz stones could have been imported from the Cnoc Dubh quarry., 16 miles away.
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Re: SAIR 11: The worked quartz vein at Cnoc Dubh, Uig parish, Isles of Lewis by PERKYPUFFIN on Wednesday, 15 March 2023
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Stornoway Historical Society recent lecture (5th March 2023) on Sober Island Archaeology dig during summer of 2022 can be seen on Youtube. entitled "Secrets of Sober Island". Sober Island could be listed as a separate new entry as it is a Knapping site dated to the early Neolithic with remnants of a circle nearby. Cnoc Dubh quartz quarry is mentioned in this Youtube video.
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Re: Callanish 7 by PERKYPUFFIN on Wednesday, 15 March 2023
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There are three separate sites here as your map shows. One is a fantastic ring of tall stones( Callanish 4) , another is the Sheiling, and then a different page is needed for the Neolithic quartz quarry. The quarry is not a small vein of quartz but the biggest vein of milky quartz I have ever seen and shows antler pick marks possibly from 3200 BC. To find the quartz vein look for the large sheep pens from the road. Go through the road gate, up the road for 30 metres and climb over three other gates to get to the bottom of the tor rock face. The shepherds hut (Sheiling) has been rebuilt and is not ruinous, 10 feet diameter with a grass roof, two entrances and open to the public at all times. It is located about 150 metres above the quartz quarry, keep going up the track past the sheep pens you will see it in its fenced enclosure on the right. When at the upper sheep pens look back over the main road to the opposite hillside in the direction of Callanish main site, there you will see the stone ring of Callanish 4. Parking for one car alongside the road and a wooden pathway, in need of repair in March 2023 .
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Re: SAIR 11: The worked quartz vein at Cnoc Dubh, Uig parish, Isles of Lewis by Anonymous on Saturday, 14 October 2006
My National Geographic "DNA"says my ancesters are out of Ethiopia 179,000 yrs. ago.. to Iran, Anatolia to St. Petersburgh,
Russia area and up into Finnland.

My family are McGowans out of the Hebridies. I found out that they came out of the Highlands around the 13th cent. to Ulster. They were recruited because they were Scots(Old Irish), Picts, & Norse. I think the term is "broken men", and of used because their clan ties were not as strong. Were Chiefs under Clan O'Reilly.

Your pages help me make the connection.. thank you for all your work... Kathryn Eilean McGowan-Lee
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SAIR 11: The worked quartz vein at Cnoc Dubh, Uig parish, Isles of Lewis by Anonymous on Tuesday, 23 November 2004
Author: Torben Bjarke Ballin. In 2002, an examination was carried out of a small quartz vein at the knoll of Cnoc Dubh, a few hundred metres from the southern shores of Loch Ceann Hulabhig on the Isle of Lewis (NGR NB 2318 2998). The vein proved to have been worked in prehistoric time, defining it as a quarry, and it was measured, photographed and characterized. In the present paper, the Cnoc Dubh quartz quarry is presented in detail, to allow comparison with other lithic quarries, and it is attempted to define attributes diagnostic of prehistoric exploitation, and to schematically describe the 'mining operations' by which the quartz was procured. As part of this process,quartz quarrying is compared to the procurement of other lithic and stone raw materials, mainly drawing on research from Scandinavia, Australia and the USA, and the location of quartz quarries in relation to prehistoric settlements is discussed. The average distance between quartz sources and Neolithic - Bronze Age sites on Lewis is then used to discuss ownership of, and access to, prehistoric quartz sources, as well as the possible exchange of quartz.

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