Calanish

Callenish on Lewis is an ancient site of standing stones, and a broch.
The stones are out on a limb, on a bare hillside.
They probably date from the fifth century BC.
Although busy, there is an atmosphere here. Partly it is the loom of history and the human endeavour which created it, but also the sense of community that must have existed for such a huge project to be posed, planned and executed before it could be put to the purpose it was designed for. We, all these years later, can only imagine and conjecture it's reason for being and being there.
I think the grey weather helped to set a tone of seriousness and a recognition of the huge erosion the stones must have been subjected to over the many centuries.Read more