NODE 11: South of the Circle

There has been much speculation about how Neolithic laborers could have quarried and transported the megaliths that stand in many parts of the world. It is believed that the blue stones of Stonehenge, for example, were carried all the way to Wiltshire from Wales, though no one really knows how they accomplished this feet. The Lewisian gneiss that make up the Callanish Stones is a local stone, probably transported from a quarry on a cliffside at  nearby Na Dromannan, about a mile away. While the distances are not nearly so great from the quarry here, the stones were probably rolled on logs and sledges made from logs from trees that still existed in Neolithic times.

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