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| Submitted by | h_fenton |
| Added | Nov 25 2018 |
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Description
Callanish I from the south, showing the small hilltop which overlooks the stones.
A low level Kite Aerial Photograph
7 September 2018
A low level Kite Aerial Photograph
7 September 2018
Posted Comments:
SumDoood (2018-12-02)
The hillock, Cnoc an Tursa (which I've seen translated as the hill(ock) of sorrow / of the tower / of the standing stone), does look and feel as if it has to some limited extent been shaped by Callanish's earliest visitors, and excavations tend to support that (Canmore 82977 refers).
This summer Margaret Curtis told me that she thought the earliest activity at the whole site had been solar- rather than lunar-related and she showed me that the sun strikes through the broad N-S gap between the most northerly rocks on this hillock, a gap which is partially blocked by a few large, rounded loaf-sized stones. Placed there by the glaciers, or deliberately placed so as to bewilder us? Would the sun's light and shadow at, say, noon on the winter solstice reach, or have once reached, a significant point further north on the site?
Also on the OS 1:25000 map I notice 'Cnoc Ghilleaspuig' NE of the parking area at the current north end of the stone avenue. That I find translated as the Sorcerer's Hill(ock).
Also on the OS 1:25000 map I notice 'Cnoc Ghilleaspuig' NE of the parking area at the current north end of the stone avenue. That I find translated as the Sorcerer's Hill(ock).
AngieLake (2018-12-02)
This was my 'significant point' at the north end of the avenue:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=9149
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=9149
AngieLake (2018-12-02)
Pab took this one for me later: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=83654
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