Calanais/Callanish XIII, Calanais, Isle of Lewis

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Calanais/Callanish XIII, Calanais, Isle of Lewis

Image: © Claire Pegrum Taken: 22 May 2019

This stone setting lies on a small island in Tòb na Faodhail and is described in the 1976 edition of Discovery and Excavation in Scotland as, "Four low piles of rounded stones; a hollow between them; a prostrate slab lying on the NW pile; all within an area 4m square. The rectangular slab, 1.30m x 0.55m x 0.09m (average), appears to have been worked".

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Image Location

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Latitude
58.2076
Longitude
-6.742257