7 April 2006 Phwoar!!! (Looking roughly NE)
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7 April 2006 Approaching from north along field boundary – deer to south cannot be guaranteed
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7 April 2006 From roughly south – jættestue (passage grave) chamber in foreground with wrecked dyssekammer (passageless chamber) in background
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7 April 2006 From roughly west – jættestue (passage grave)
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7 April 2006 From roughly east – jættestue (passage grave) – passage stones in forground
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7 April 2006 First view of monument approaching on road from south
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7 April 2006 From road to north – impressive kerbstones protruding from overgrown langdysse
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7 April 2006 View from north chamber along to south
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7 April 2006 The reward as you round the monument, having approached from the ‘back‘
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7 April 2006 Approaching on the path makes the monument look underwhelming, as you get the ‘back’ view
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7 April 2006 Approaching from the NW through the woods – I’ve included this shot to show just what you’re looking for & just how difficult it is to spot!
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7 April 2006 North end of chamber with distinctive hill in background (to NW) that should help you find the site....
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7 April 2006 From the SE – this is the ‘front’ of the monument, with a possible kerbstone in the foreground – the stone to the right is the remaining capstone on the passage
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7 April 2006 From the north – chamber stones, passage just visible to the left
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Approaching from the west & Callanish V – mist & drizzle threw focus out, but this is what you’re looking for!
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Taken as I popped onto the top of the hillock/crag, looking roughly north or north east
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View along the top of the hillock/craggy bit (looking roughly south south east) – I reckon it’s kinda possible to see how a chambered cairn could have sat here
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Nice stone (the one to the north of the hillock/craggy bit) looking roughly north
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10 July 2006 Colin Richards & his team were very friendly. He gave us a guided tour of the site, which was fascinating, tho evidence for a couple of the theories of use seemed a little ‘thin’ to us. Arrows indicate possible circle stones. (Pano made using Autostitch cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html)
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10 July 2006 Excavations were coming to a close and the team were reseeding the ground. The spoil heap has been removed/replaced – arrows indicate likely circle stones. (Pano made using Autostitch cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html)
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14 July 2006 Not a great deal to see from the road – you can just see a few of the stones
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14 July 2006 Close up of Sleeping Beauty’s head – top of head to the right. Taken from the A859 on Harris, around NB205126 – near Seaforth Island
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14 July 2006 The walls of the sheep fank make it very difficult to ‘see’ this site properly. I’ve added the arrows to mark the remaining stones as they are now
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14 July 2006 Arrows marking the remaining stones – some seem to possibly be in original positions, some not....
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11 July 2006 Callanish from the road to Great Bernera – quite close to Bernera Bridge
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11 July 2006 Margaret Curtis has shown that sighting along the left face of this stone guides the eye to the site of the fallen Airigh Mhaoldonuich* standing stone, which would have been visible against the horizon on the hillside. (*Also known as Callanish XVII).
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11 July 2006 Margaret Curtis explains that the left face of the nearest stone in this picture is the one that guides the eye to the site of the fallen Airigh Mhaoldonuich standing stone, which would be visible against the horizon on the hillside. (Also known as Callanish XVII). L-R Juamei, Margaret, moey, joolio geordio & Vybik Jon.
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12 July 2006 Margaret Curtis says that if you ‘sight’ along one face of one of the Bernera Bridge stones, it leads the eye to where this huge stone would have been clearly visible on the horizon. She has demonstrated this by placing people on the hillside where the stone would have stood.
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12 July 2006 It would have been an imposing stone when upright – Juamei for scale
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12 July 2006 As the tide was coming in we were thinking we weren’t going to find any cups. But then I started randomly ripping seaweed off rocks & this was about the 3rd one I tried....
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12 July 2006 The setting of the cups we found – with Juamei for scale
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10 July 2006 Margaret Curtis calls this site ‘mission control’, as it oversees most of the other “Callanish” sites. With a big lens, it’s easy to pick out Callanish I, II & III....
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11 July 2006 The remaining stone (badly!) cloned to show (very roughly) what the circle might’ve looked like. (See also joolio geordio’s pic taken at the same time).
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5 July 2006 Entrance – B9119 is just the other side of the signpost
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5 July 2006Jane goes round the bend (sorry, couldn’t resist!)
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5 July 2006 Thank goodness for the sign! The souterrain is incredibly well hidden in plain sight! The entrance is just the other side of the little just visible towards the bottom left, the B9119 on the right
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8 July 2006 We were all looking SEish awaiting the moon to do its skim thang, but this was going on behind us!
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14 July 2006 Circle with Loch Dubh magically blue in the background. Not sure exactly where this monument lies – somewhere between stone circle & cairn, but it’s certainly stunningly beautiful!!!
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14 July 2006 Circle with Juamei for scale & Baile Aileen village in background....
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14 July 2006 The kerb-like circle with the cairny thing in the background, Sleeping Beauty’s head just discernable around 3/4 right
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