Lewis, Scotland.  Day 7, 5th July.

Towards the end of the day I came back to Calanais where I was staying for the night.  There are several stone circles in the vicinity and this is Calanais III, smaller than the main one.  Not all of the original stones remain standing.

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Just beside Calanais III, this is a gate I passed through to photograph an old house.

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I would guess this is from the nineteenth century because it is not a dry stone building; it has a regular construction using mortar.

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There are probably any number of stories associated with this house but if so, I don’t know of them.  Another renovator’s dream.

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This is a structure behind the stone house.  I can’t remember whether it appeared intended to house people or animals.

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I was very lucky to arrive at Calanais I at sunset in perfect weather with very few people around.  This stone circle is older than Stonehenge, having been erected some time between 2900BC and 2600BC.  There were clearly astronomical and ritual associations with the circles.

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This image and the two succeeding are after sunset.

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There is also a small chambered cairn in the middle of the stone circle.

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There is also an avenue of stones you can just see here in the back ground and other stones in the form of an overall cross, though the circle is thousands of years before Christianity.

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Several days later I was passing by and stopped to see Calanais II, quite close to Calanais III.

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