I wholeheartedly agree! Callanish hits so many spots… the intimacy with the stones (which is obviously a modern element of the experience of being there), the feeling of being enfolded in the landscape (versus lost in the landscape at Stonehenge I always think), the spindly nature of the stones, the fact they feel barely rooted in the soil, you almost wonder how they stay up (where Stonehenge feels so earthly and solid and grounded), and of course the gneiss is absolutely wonderful stuff, magical. Also the journey there, across water, adds to the ‘special-ness’.

But yes a lot of it is to do with a feeling of not having been tinkered with *too* much, and being able to engineer time alone or almost alone with the stones - which are going to come down to not being situated in South of England, with it much bigger population, and being on every tourist map and being a flagship of UK heritage.