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Photo Pages: Callanish - Stone Circle in Scotland in Isle of Lewis
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Submitted by JJ Evendon on Sunday, 23 October 2005 Page Views: 17322
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 Site Name: Callanish Alternate Name: Calanais / Callanish I
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Lewis Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Stornoway Nearest Village: Callanish
Map Ref: NB213330 Landranger Map Number: 8
Latitude: 58.197420N Longitude: 6.745088W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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   Callanish I Air 1 submitted by JJ
Stone Circle in Lewis. "The Stonehenge of the North". Amazing aerial photos of Callanish I, II and III, see below.
See also our pages on the Lunar Standstill 2006.
There are four more pages of Callanish images to preview in our Online shop, also Gerald Ponting's book on the Callanish Sites.
Note: Web-Cams now operational to catch the lunar major standstill event, see comment.
More pictures in our eGallery: Callanish
 Callanish 3 submitted by chrispy
Callanish 3 sunset June 2009
 Callanish 2 submitted by chrispy
Callannish 2 sunset June 2009
 Callanish 1 submitted by chrispy
callanish 1 june 2009 looking up the stone avenue towards the centre circle
 Callanish 1 submitted by chrispy
Callanish 1 June 2009 the whole site on the horizon at sunset
 Callanish 1 submitted by chrispy
Callanish 1 central megalith sunset june 2009
 Callanish 1 submitted by chrispy
Callanish 1 june 2009 at sunset showing the central circle
 Callanish 1 submitted by chrispy
Callanish 1 June 2009 This picture shows the whole site along the horizon
 Callanish 1 submitted by chrispy
callanish 1 sunrise summer solstice june 2009. This is the centre circle of the site.
 Callanish submitted by misterbaz
July 2005
 Callanish submitted by AngieLake
Callanish ca. 1890.
This lovely old b/w photo found in 'Victorian and Edwardian Highlands from old Photographs', by Francis Thompson, Tantallon Books, Edinburgh (this reprint 1989). [He only claims text copyright.]
Another gem picked up in charity shop the other day!
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Re: Callanish (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, 16 August 2004 | | 100% better than glastonbury, if you are a fan of circles, then this can't be missed, you haven't lived until you have experienced callanish, the area is full of megalythic sites, truely awesome | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Callanish (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 10 May 2005 | | im maabs wheaton. background is McGregor,that of rob roy!same location,i know the meaning of all that circles have to offer.Confident i might say a little cocky maybe but when it comes to clarity and celtic knowledge i seem to know ,just know.This is now when the story and only meaning with purpose should unfold.For whatever reason the bow has found its arrow.I would be content to talk to this person who reads this,and to be clear Im not wasting and creating any type of mystery.Please email me at maabsgreeneyes@yahoo.com | [ Reply to This ]
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Web-Cams at Calanais, Lewis, Scotland (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Sunday, 23 October 2005 |
A pilot is running from Oct. 20 until Oct. 26th 2005 from Callanish I,
to catch the near northern major standstill event (moon set) with cam2.
Watch say between 12:00 and 15:30 GMT (varies over the days)
http://www.iol.ie/~geniet/callanish/ | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Web-Cams at Calanais, Lewis, Scotland (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Thursday, 24 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | On http://www.bubble.com (astrologer Jonathan Cainer's website) there's a pic of him at the main Callanish circle (Calanais), with a caption that mentions a project he is planning to link in with the spectacular event of 2006. (25th November 2005 web page) | [ Reply to This ]
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