With that grain these stones couldn’t be anything less than magnificent.
Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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I love those gneiss stones (visited Callanish area circles in 2001), and if I ever get there again, this site will be a priority to visit. The angle you've captured here shows the stones looking like a group of hooded priests looking down at the water!
To me the grain makes these Outer Hebridean stones look as if they are made of wood. Maybe that was the intention... in a land where wood was very hard to source?
I agree about the woody nature of those stones, see here:
megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=9150
Photo from 2001 visit (see my comment in 2004), of an amazing stone in Callanish 1's avenue,