Lewis, Garynahine, Cnoc Fillibhir Mhor
Stone Row (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Lewis, Garynahine, Cnoc Fillibhir Mhor
Classification Stone Row (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 293953
Site Number NB23SW 90
NGR NB 2268 3207
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/293953
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Uig
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NB23SW 90 2268 3207
NB 2268 3207 A 7m alignment of three orthostats stands in peaty moorland, 1.65 km SE of the main standing stone site at Callanish. Two of them are high stones flattened along the alignment of 11/191 degrees azimuth. A similar orthostat stands 10m further S, 1.5m E of the alignment. Perhaps it should be regarded as part of the same setting, a 16m alignment of four stones. The surrounding features are, clockwise: Camas an Torr (the bay), Creag nahanalach (hill for taking a rest), Creag na Uilblan (hill of the curlew), Cnoc Buaile nan Pearst (Pearst's enclosure?), and Rubha Reamhar (broad headland).
Viewing southwards along the alignment indicates the left slope of Clisham. A theodolite horizone survey shows this to be the setting point of the S extreme moon at 191 degrees azimuth.
The alignment of site 27 complements the 10m long alignment of site 5, which is formed of four similarly sized orthostats (NB 234 299), and visible 2.2 km away, and which indicates the rising point of the S extreme moon at the knees of the Sleeping Beauty range of hills.
Site 27 probably had a second astronomical function. Seen from the stone circle of site 3, about 650m away, the alignment of site 27 stands in a narrow gap between the base of a steep rocky hill and a rock outcrop, and below the knees of the Sleeping Beauty hill range, ie the same rising point of the S extreme moon as seen from the alignment of site 5. Two backsights at site 3 (DES 1990, 49) mark the rise and set of the S extreme moon seen through the circle. From both site 27 and site 3, the rising point of the S extreme moon would be from the Sleeping Beauty's body, ie further right than the knees. Site 27 is part of the prehistoric lunar observatory of Callanish.
M R Curtis and G R Curtis 2007.
Field Visit (2006)
NB 2268 3207 A 7m alignment of three orthostats stands in peaty moorland, 1.65 km SE of the main standing stone site at Callanish. Two of them are high stones flattened along the alignment of 11/191 degrees azimuth. A similar orthostat stands 10m further S, 1.5m E of the alignment. Perhaps it should be regarded as part of the same setting, a 16m alignment of four stones. The surrounding features are, clockwise: Camas an Torr (the bay), Creag nahanalach (hill for taking a rest), Creag na Uilblan (hill of the curlew), Cnoc Buaile nan Pearst (Pearst's enclosure?), and Rubha Reamhar (broad headland).
Viewing southwards along the alignment indicates the left slope of Clisham. A theodolite horizone survey shows this to be the setting point of the S extreme moon at 191 degrees azimuth.
The alignment of site 27 complements the 10m long alignment of site 5, which is formed of four similarly sized orthostats (NB 234 299), and visible 2.2 km away, and which indicates the rising point of the S extreme moon at the knees of the Sleeping Beauty range of hills.
Site 27 probably had a second astronomical function. Seen from the stone circle of site 3, about 650m away, the alignment of site 27 stands in a narrow gap between the base of a steep rocky hill and a rock outcrop, and below the knees of the Sleeping Beauty hill range, ie the same rising point of the S extreme moon as seen from the alignment of site 5. Two backsights at site 3 (DES 1990, 49) mark the rise and set of the S extreme moon seen through the circle. From both site 27 and site 3, the rising point of the S extreme moon would be from the Sleeping Beauty's body, ie further right than the knees. Site 27 is part of the prehistoric lunar observatory of Callanish.
M Curtis and R Curtis 2006
