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Extract from the Calanais (Callanish) Travel Guides:
Five miles south of Carlabhagh lies the village of
CALANAIS
(Callanish), site of the islands' most dramatic prehistoric ruins, the
Calanais Standing Stones
, whose monoliths - nearly fifty of them - occupy a serene lochside setting. There's been years of heated debate about the origin and function of the stones - slabs of gnarled and finely grained gneiss up to 15ft high - though almost everyone agrees that they were lugged here by Neolithic peoples between 3000 and 1500 BC. It's also obvious that the planning and construction of the site - as well as several other lesser circles nearby - was spread over many generat...
read the whole Calanais (Callanish) Travel Guides...
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