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  2. Callanish Stones - Wikipedia

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    The Calanais Stones (or "Calanais I": Scottish Gaelic: Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais) are an arrangement of standing stones placed in a cruciform pattern with a central stone circle, located on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

  3. Clach an Trushal - Wikipedia

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    The stone is sited in the village of Ballantrushal on the west side of Lewis. Local legend says that it marks the site of a great battle, the last to be fought between the feuding clans of the Macaulays and Morrisons. [2] However it is actually the solitary upright stone remaining from a stone circle built about 5,000 years ago.

  4. Callanish - Wikipedia

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    The Calanais Stones "Calanais I", a cross-shaped setting of standing stones erected around 3000 BC, are one of the most spectacular megalithic monuments in Scotland. A modern visitor centre provides information about the main circle and other lesser monuments nearby, numbered as Calanais II to X. Callanish Standing Stones, Outer Hebrides

  5. Callanish II - Wikipedia

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    The stone circle consists of seven thin standing stones arranged in the shape of an ellipse measuring 21.6 by 18.9 metres. [2] Five of the stones are standing and two have fallen. [1] The stones vary from 2 to 3.3 metres in height. [1] A slab, 1.4 metres long, lies in front of the western stone, pointing towards the centre of the circle. [1]

  6. Great Bernera - Wikipedia

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    Lewis and Harris: Area: 2,122 ha (5,240 acres) ... Callanish VIII is a unique standing stone arrangement near the bridge between Lewis and Bernera, set out in a ...

  7. A Misunderstood Masterpiece: Inside the Making of "Natural ...

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    Juliette Lewis had been working out with Dale Dye, an ex-Marine and sometime actor who had served as a military advisor on Stone’s films going back to Platoon (1986). Stone charged him with ...

  8. Steinacleit - Wikipedia

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    Steinacleit is a prehistoric archeological site on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The site consists of an array of boulders which marks what is left of a chambered cairn, and possibly shows a huge hall overlay the site. There are ten large stone slabs surrounding the central mound.

  9. Callanish IV - Wikipedia

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    The Callanish IV stone circle (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Hulavig [1]) is one of many megalithic structures around the better-known (and larger) Calanais I on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), Scotland. It is a scheduled monument and its official name is Sron a'Chail. [2]