Site Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Cultural Heritage Prim Media 206 Place The town or city Grid reference NB 213 330 Policy Threats Threatening regional planning policies Loss Threats Loss of cultural spaces Contact Historic Environment Scotland Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Calanais Standing Circle 1 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 109 Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 10/10/2024 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource iain Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,58.197557,-6.745146; Description An account of the resource The Calanais Standing Stones are an extraordinary cross-shaped setting of stones erected 5,000 years ago. They predate England’s famous Stonehenge monument, and were an important place for ritual activity for at least 2,000 years. We don’t know why the standing stones at Calanais were erected, but our best guess is that it was a kind of astronomical observatory. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3000BC Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 11/25/2025 03:08:33 pm Subject The topic of the resource ARCHAEOLOGY AND BUILT HERITAGE,PEOPLE,PLACES Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Calanais Standing Circle 1 Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/calanais-standing-stones/ Country The name of the country of the data provider or “Europe” in the case of Europe-wide projects. Scotland