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Callanish IV

Neolithic/Bronze Age stone circle, Isle of Lewis

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The Callanish IV stone circle (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Hulavig) is one of many megalithic structures around the better-known (and larger) Calanais I on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), Scotland. It is a scheduled monument and its official name is Sron a'Chail. The site was first surveyed and recorded by RCAHMS in 1914 and again in 2009, with another survey in the 1970s by other archaeologists, but no known archaeological excavations have taken place at the stones.

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
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Early Modern Period
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First RCAHMS survey

1914

Archaeological survey (1970s)

1970s

Scheduled as a monument

1992

Recent survey

2009

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United Kingdom

Coordinates

58.18° N, -6.71° E