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Achmore Stone Circle
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Aird Sleitenish Stone Circle
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Airigh Mhaoldonuich Standing Stone / Menhir
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Airigh nam Bidearan Stone Row / Alignment
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Airigh Na Beinne Bige Stone Circle
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Airigh Na Beinn Bige Cairns Cairn(s)
Allt An-T-Sniomh Chambered Cairn
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Ballantrushall Stone Circle
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Barraglom Cup Marked Stone
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Benside
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Bernera Bridge Circle Stone Circle
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Borve Burial Cairn Cairn(s)
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Borve Chamber Cairn Chambered Cairn
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Bostadh Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
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Breasclete Chambered Cairn
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Caisteal Mhic Creacail Chambered Cairn
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Callanish Standing Stones
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Carnan a'Ghrodhair Souterrain
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Carn An MacAskill Cairn(s)
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Carn A' Mharc Chambered Cairn
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Ceann Hulavig Stone Circle
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Clachan a Chaluim Standing Stones
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Clach an Trushal Standing Stone / Menhir
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Clach an Tursa Standing Stone / Menhir
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Clach Bioreach Standing Stone / Menhir
Clach Ghlas Standing Stone / Menhir
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Clach Na Greine Standing Stone / Menhir
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Clach Stein Standing Stone / Menhir
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Clach Stein Standing Stones
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Clach Stei Lin Stone Circle
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Cliacabhaigh Standing Stone / Menhir
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Cùl a'Chleit Standing Stones
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Cnoc Ceann a'Gharraidh Stone Circle
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Cnoc Fillibhear Bheag Stone Circle
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Cnoc Nan Dursainean Chambered Cairn
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Cnoc Na Croich Chambered Tomb
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Cnoc Sgeir na h-Uidhe Standing Stone / Menhir
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Coire na Feinne Chambered Cairn
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Druim Dubh Stone Circle
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Druim nam Bidearan Standing Stones
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Dunan Chambered Cairn
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Dun Barraglom Broch
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Dun Bharabhat Stone Fort / Dun
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Dun Bharclin Stone Fort / Dun
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Dun Boraigeo Stone Fort / Dun
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Dun Borranish Stone Fort / Dun
Dun Borve Broch
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Dun Borve Stone Fort / Dun
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Dun Carloway Broch
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Dun Cromor Stone Fort / Dun
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Dun Innisgall Stone Fort / Dun
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Dun Loch an Duin Stone Fort / Dun
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Dun Stuaidh Promontory Fort
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Fang Circle Stone Circle
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Great Bernera Broch
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H141 - Horgabost Stone Setting
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Horgabost Standing Stone / Menhir
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Iarsiadar Standing Stone Standing Stone / Menhir
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Kyle's Cairn Cairn(s)
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Loch An Duin Stone Fort / Dun
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Loch an Duin (Scalpay) Stone Fort / Dun
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Loch an Dun Stone Fort / Dun
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Loch an Duna Broch
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Loch An Dunain Stone Fort / Dun
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Loch Bhalairiop Crannog
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The Macleod Stone Standing Stone / Menhir
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Na Dromannan Stone Circle
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Olcote Kerbed Cairn
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Priests Glen
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Rodelpark Stone Fort / Dun
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Rodel R141 Promontory Fort
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Rubha Charnain Cup Marked Stone
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S64, Scarista Burial Chamber
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S70, Scarista Burial Chamber
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Scarista - S56 Stone Row / Alignment
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Sgarasta Standing Stone / Menhir
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Shawbost Promontory Fort
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Sleeping Beauty
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Steinacleit Stone Circle
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Stonefield Standing Stone / Menhir
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Stone 10
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Taransay Standing Stone / Menhir
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Toe Head Broch
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Traigh Bostadh Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
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Traigh Na Berie Broch
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Cleiteir Standing Stones Standing Stones
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Cnoc Dubh
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Roghadal Stone Circle
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Sildinis Kerbed Cairn

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Bronze Age finds returning to island home

A collection of Bronze Age finds are returning on loan to the island where they were found

More info :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1rlyz5dk4o
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
21st March 2023ce

Watery clues to porridge-making 4,000 years ago

Possible evidence of porridge-making in the Western Isles 4,000 years ago has been found on pottery recovered from the bottom of lochs.

More info :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2e8z444q2o
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
7th September 2022ce
Edited 21st March 2023ce

Dig uncovers human life on Scots isle 3,000 years earlier than thought

Items found during an archaeological dig near Stornoway have revealed people lived there thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

More info :

https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/archaelogical-dig-project-in-stornoway-reveals-humans-lived-there-3000-years-earlier-than-thought
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
20th June 2022ce

Diver finds 5,500 year old cup in Loch.


https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-herald-1130/20200622/281762746514403

Also here.

https://www.northern-times.co... continues...
Howburn Digger Posted by Howburn Digger
24th June 2020ce

Housebuilder uncovers Iron Age chamber on Lewis


A 2,000-year-old underground chamber has been uncovered during work to build a house on the Isle of Lewis.

The Iron Age souterrain was revealed during the digging of the foundations for the property in Ness.

Local archaeologists, husband and wife team Chris and Rachel Barrowman, are recording the souterrain... continues...
moss Posted by moss
19th February 2018ce

Archaeology worth £4m to Western Isles' economy

Standing stones that are 5,000 years old are helping to boost the Western Isles economy by £4m a year, according to a new report.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-41498458
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
5th October 2017ce

Iron Age Burial Gives Insights Into Ancient Islanders

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-38920311
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
10th February 2017ce

Contentious £200m Lewis windfarm takes step forward


environmental survey for site on outskirts of Stornoway lodged with Scottish Government


Plans to build a controversial £200million windfarm on the outskirts of Stornoway have moved forward... continues...
moss Posted by moss
24th September 2010ce

Prehistoric discovery may delay Lewis development


A Neolithic cairn discovered on Lewis could force a controversial wind-farm plan to be redrawn... continues...
baza Posted by baza
4th August 2006ce
Edited 17th July 2017ce

Council backs huge wind farm plan


"Plans to build the largest onshore wind farm in Europe have been approved by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council).
An application by Lewis Wind Power for a 209 turbine wind farm in North Lewis, costing £400m, was passed by 19 votes to eight on Wednesday evening.

It was approved despite more than 4,000 objections... continues...
baza Posted by baza
1st July 2005ce

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An Account of some Remains of Antiquity In the Island of Lewis, one of the Hebrides. In a letter from Colin M'Kenzie, Esq to John M'Kenzie, Esq;

From Archaeologica Scotica: transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Volume 1 (1792)
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
21st August 2006ce

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Callanish (Standing Stones) — Links

Drone footage by Scott Davies


Found this while surfing online - as you do. Talented man with very little recognition. Always the way, right?
GLADMAN Posted by GLADMAN
2nd March 2024ce

Callanish (Standing Stones) — Folklore

West of Stornoway an avenue of stones leads across the moors to a circle of thirteen pillars around a chambered cairn about 4,000 years old. Fir Bhreig, 'The False Men, is the gaelic name for the group. In Ireland, many standing stones are known as far-bhreaga or 'false man', these are usually being solitary menhirs which from a distance look like people, their 'falseness' lies in their not being human as they appear.

the Lewis pillars are said to be giants who refused to build a church for St Keiran and were therefore turned into stone. Such retributory legends are common in folk tradition, and the meta-morphosed beings may be believed to recover their power of motion at certain times, becoming able to walk or even to dance. The sin which they were petrified is often that of having danced on the Sabbath.

A second account of Callanish is that the stones were brought to Lewis in ships by a priest-king and set up there by black men under the guidance of priests in feathered robes, and another belief was that 'The Shining One' appeared there on mid-summer morning to walk the length of the avenue, heralded by the cry of the cuckoo, the bird of the Celtic land of youth Tir-nan-Og. It used to be the custom for local families to visit the stones on that day and on May Day at first openly and then in secret when such practices were condemned by the Kirk.

It is said that once during famine on the island a woman was so desperate that she went to sea intending to drown herself, but saw a white cow which appeared from the waves and told her that she and all her neighbours should bring their milk pails to the stones of Callanish that night. When they did so, the cow provided them with a pailful of milk, and this bounty continued until a witch brought a sieve instead of a pail. as the cow could not fill it however hard she tried, she was milked dry, and was never seen again on the island. The power of witches to get abnormal supplies of milk from cows, whether ordinary animals or magical ones, was well know.

The Lore Of Scotland : A Guide To Scottish Legends

Westwood & Kingshill
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
2nd January 2024ce

Callanish (Standing Stones) — News

Free entry to ancient Calanais stones could end


Free entry to one of the Western Isles' best-known and ancient sites could end under plans to raise money to help cover the cost of its upkeep.

More info :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-66815292
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
15th September 2023ce

Bostadh (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) — Images (click to view fullsize)

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29th May 2023ce

The Macleod Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Folklore

A local farming family set up this huge standing stone, probably over 5,000 years ago. For the people who erected it, this stone represented their links with the land and their ancestors. They wouldn't have been known as MacLeods – that is a much more recent association.

The standing stone gave out a clear message: this land is well-used, it is ours and has been for generations. This was a rich land when Clach Mhic Leòid was erected in the prehistoric Neolithic period. The landscape was one of small-scale agriculture and open woodland. Any rough grazing or peat was confined to the high hills, and even the sea was some distance away.

Tradition sometimes associates standing stones with burials but archaeologists rarely, if ever, find contemporary evidence of burials at the base of single stones. It wasn't until around 4,500 to 3,800 years ago, in the later Neolithic and early Bronze Age, that individual burials became common-place.

Nevertheless, it is possible that Clach Mhic Leòid continued to be important to the local people, even as times and beliefs changed. There are a number of large stones showing through the turf close to this magnificent slab. Was the area eventually used as a place of burial? Without archaeological investigation we will never know. Nevertheless, the medieval naming of the stone, Mhic Leòid, reflects valued links with the distant past.

The MacLeods of Harris and Dunvegan were the clan chiefs who held Harris from the 13th or 14th centuries until the late 1700s. Perhaps the clan name was given to this standing stone to link the MacLeods to long-departed ancestors, real or imaginary, and thereby emphasise their right to power over the land and the people.

By Jill Harden
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
3rd August 2022ce

Loch an Duna (Broch) — Links

Canmore ID 4187


Loch an Duna Broch on Canmore
Posted by markj99
29th June 2022ce

Loch an Duna (Broch) — Images

<b>Loch an Duna</b>Posted by markj99<b>Loch an Duna</b>Posted by markj99<b>Loch an Duna</b>Posted by markj99 Posted by markj99
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