Read more: 25 Gorgeous Islands For Vacationing That Won't Break The Bank Experts believe that the mysterious Calanais Standing Stones were erected as early as B.C. 2900, during the Neolithic Period.
People often gather at these sites during the summer and winter solstices. Scotland's most famous standing stones are in Callanish on the Isle of Lewis. There are also many in Orkney and Shetland.
From the carved, standing stones still found in the region around ... known evidence for an idea that has held sway in the Scottish Highlands for at least 1,500 years—that Loch Ness is home ...
to stories of standing stones that started to move at the stroke of midnight to the long, perhaps more familiar, boozy night as extra days off work were enjoyed to the full, New Year was Scotland ...
Last month it was revealed the iconic stone came from north-east Scotland and not Wales, like the monument's bluestones do. Orkney has its famous Neolithic sites with standing stones, like the ...
John Borland, of Historic Environment Scotland and president of the Pictish ... The Picts created cross-slabs, intricately decorated standing stones. They also constructed impressive hill forts ...
Highland Park launches its rarest and oldest whisky to date, a 56-year-old expression presented in a bespoke case inspired by the 5,000-year-old Standing Stones of Stenness, priced at $50,000.