Standing Stones at Callanish, Isle of Lewis

ID: PC_GAUKROGER_282 DESCRIPTION: The standing stones at Callanish are fascinating historical monuments, and part of Europe’s set of most complete historic stone circles. The stones are made of 3000 million year old Lewisian Gneiss rock and have been standing for multiple millennia. Despite similar sites being found across much of the Celtic world in Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, France and Spain, it is still not fully known what the stones were used for. One theory is that they were used in some sort of Pagan ritual. PLACENAME: Callanish DISTRICT: Lewis CREATOR (AV): Violet Banks PERIOD: 1930s SOURCE: Jamie Gaukroger Asset ID: 45080 KEYWORDS:

• archaeology
• monuments
• standing stones
• lewis