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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | This stone is on the western side, at the very end of the north avenue, (as we see it today, and within the current site boundary) at Callanish. I believe it may have had links with fertility rites, as from this angle the two lumps of black hornblende that jut out from its northern face look like a swollen stomach of a pregnant woman - the higher piece maybe representing her head. |
| Posted Comments: maabs
(2005-05-09) | this is not a fertility right this stone marks the spot wher someone first pointed to the sky as there is clarity in just one want to know more ive left my address elsewhere too maabsgreeneyes@yahoo.com | AngieLake
(2007-11-08) | In 'Circles & Standing Stones' by Evan Hadingham (1978 edition), he says: "The two stones at the end of this avenue are turned at right angles to its course, as if they were meant to indicate a terminal point." |
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