Chris

About the longest view of the tomb you can get now.

Looking toward the ‘entrance’.

The 5 stones facing North...ish.

Packing and other stones around the central megalith.

All 5 stones with 5 year old antiquarians inspecting.

The lichen covered top of the tallest stone.

Up close with the cupmarks.

This stunning painting was created for us by Kathryn, based on one of my own photos (3rd one in from the right on the bottom row above actually).

We fell in love with her work at her online gallery mazoo.co.uk/ and when she agreed to paint Callanish for us we knew it would be good, but this fantastic moonlit image blew us away.

Highly recommended.

Image Copyright Kathryn Crocker 2007

The face in profile.

Remains of the third circle stone?

The outline of the circle has been marked in the grass with cobbles.

The circle stones have outlasted their wall anyway.

The Brandsbutt stone itself. Broken up and used for walling material by some inbred yokel.

The relevant part of the sign.

The two remaining standing stones.

The circle in its entireity.

View over the recumbent. Mither Tap is in the mist somewhere....

Reverse view of the recumbent ‘chock stone’.

The recumbent ‘chock stone’ shaped to fit both recumbent and adjacent flanker.

Field clearance & broken stones fill the interior.

The taller of the circle stones.

A circle stone.

End-on.

Go away! Don’t visit! etc.

A view of the cleared circle.

Clearance rubble or cairn remains?

One of the many pieces of quartz in the centre of the circle.

The circle from the N.

The leaning stone showing the signs of millennia of weathering.

Detail of a stone

View of the circle from the outlier.

The 3 stones of the SW arc.

The largest stone in the circle, around 8 feet tall.

From across the road, still can’t quite fit it in shot!

You can see why the ancients loved quartz.....

Nice view from the house.