Scotland: Callanish Stone Circles
August 21, 2025
August 21, 2025
I took the car ferry from Ullapool to Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis (a part of the Outer Hebrides) where I spent two nights.
My first stop was at the Callanish Stone Circles, built around 2900-2600 BCE, hence older than Stonehenge. Here is Stone Circle 2:
I walked around and through it:
The central site at Callanish is a cross-shaped arrangement of tall standing stones with a stone circle and chambered cairn: