Field Visit
Date 19 June 1914
Event ID 1103008
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1103008
Stone Circle (destroyed), Druim nan Eum, Callanish.
On the summit of a rocky ridge about 7/8 mile north-north-east of the township of Callanish and some 700 yards north-west of Loch Mhurchaidh, at an elevation of about 120 feet above sea-level, are at least eleven large pillar stones which have all been overthrown; several of them are over 10 feet in length and 4 feet in breadth. It is impossible to define the original situations of the stones, but their present position seems to indicate that there had been an outer ring of not less than seven pillars and an inner ring of four. The west side of the ridge shows a roughly vertical face, so weathered that fine slabs of large size could easily be split off by wedges. This is considered by the local people to be the quarry which provided the stones for the Callanish and adjoining circles.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 19 June 1914.
OS map: Lewis xxv (unnoted).
