Cnoc Ceann a'Ghàrraidh -- Calanais II (Callanish II )

All pictures copyright © 1997 Martin McCarthy

Calanais II from the west Large image (35k 842x318) Calanais II from the east Large image (33k 838x432) Calanais II with Calanais I silhouetted on the distant skyline. Large image (33k 543x618)

An eliptical setting (about twenty-one metres by ninteen metres) of five large stones just a few hundred metres from Calanais I. The tallest stone is nearly three and a half metres in height. Originally this was a ring of ten stones with an eleventh outlier. A cairn, eight and a half metres in diameter, was built in the circle a little to the east of centre. Post-hole evidence suggests that, before the stones were erected, there was a timber circle on this site; this would have been about ten metres in diameter.