Stonefield

Also known as:
Blair and Callanish XII
Nearest town:
Stornoway (21km E)
OS reference:
NB215350
OS sheets:
8, 13
Latitude:
58° 12' 56.67 N
Longitude:
6° 44' 34.95 W
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Image of Stonefield (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Zeb

The sign reads ‘Organics only, no plastics’. I think this stone qualifies. I chatted with the man who lived in the house opposite who was a boy when the peat diggers found the stone. He told me that when the houses were being built they were going to throw the stone away but people told the developers to keep it which is why it remains. This old man didn’t seem too convinced of its authenticity though.
As seen on 31 May 2007 CE.

Zeb
Zeb Jun 17, 2007
Image of Stonefield (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Kammer

Taken 1st August 2004: Stonefield viewed from the south east.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Jan 19, 2005
Image of Stonefield (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Moth

‘In it’s original position’. Ahem....

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Aug 29, 2003

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Stonefield

C
CARL Jul 4, 2012

Visited 31.5.12

Just up the road from Olcote kerbed cairn – on the same side of the road.

The stone is right next to a bus stop, approximately 1.5 metres high and set in a concrete/pebble base.

As it was nearly 11.00pm and the stone is in a residential area I didn’t hang around too long.
I didn’t want anyone to get the wrong idea!

Stonefield

Kammer
Kammer Jan 19, 2005

Visited 1st August 2004: Having missed this stone when I visited in ‘95 I was pleased to see it ‘in the flesh’. This is one of those extremely accessible sites that you can drive right up to. Compared to its neighbours (with the possible exception of Olcote) it’s extremely unglamorous, but there’s something intriguing about the contrast of old and new here. At least Stonefield hasn’t been chopped in two by a road!

Miscellaneous

Stonefield
Standing Stone / Menhir
Kammer
Kammer Dec 3, 2002

This stone is on the south side of the road, about 300 yards north west of Breasclete School. It was re-discovered in 1923 after peat cutting revealed it, and it stands in its original position. The stone is about a metre high, and one and a half metres wide.

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