Calanais stones refers to a historically significant collection of stones located on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. These stones are of significant historical importance and their appearance has similarities to the arrangement of standing stones at Stonehenge in the UK.
Archaeological study suggests the erection of the first stones at Calanais I (Callanish) began around 3000BC. The construction seems to have started with the tallest of the stones, the central monolith, subsequently followed with the erection of 13 stones forming a flattened circle encapsulating the central monolith. At a later date further rows of stones appeared around 1800BC some 1200 years after initial work began. The central burial cairn was the last feature added to the site appearing at some stage between 1800BC and 1000BC after which, the site was abandoned and became engulfed in peat. At least one of the stones were re-discovered by Margaret and Gerald Ponting in 1977 and successfully re-erected in its true position by the Monuments Department of the Scottish Development Department in 1982.
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Ancient monuments are scattered around the UK. Stonehenge is in the county of Wiltshire, where legal advice in Swindon can also be found.
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