ON a low ridge above Loch Roag, the Stones of Callanish emerge portentously from ancient peat, exuding an air of magic and mystery. Known also now as the Calanais Stones, these megaliths are right ...

This is the longest day of the year – officially, when the sun sets tonight in London at nine minutes to ten: 21:51 BST. Of course it will be a good deal later, this far north, in the Outer Hebrides, ...

With the cold and dark nights of winter long behind us, today marks the summer solstice — and the weather across much of the country looks perfect to make the most of it. The summer solstice, which ...

For thousands of years they have been shrouded in a mystery over who erected them and why. But now the standing stones at ‘Scotland’s Stonehenge’ are at the centre of a right to roam row – for the awe ...

THE LUNAR standstill this month at the Neolithic standing stones in Callanish, in the Outer Hebrides, was a rare event. As the moon's journey through the sky takes nearly 19 years, the standstill only ...

Some of the Callanish stones, which sit atop the Isle of Lewis in Scotland Chris Combe via Flickr under CC BY SA-2.0 When a searing flash of lightning crackles through the sky, some spectators marvel ...

''The people who put up the stone circles had no extraordinary or supernatural powers. They were men and women physically like us, with the same limitations of mind and body. Their beliefs were ...

Mystery has long surrounded the hundreds of ancient stone monuments found in Britain, from Stonehenge to Castlerigg in the Lake District. But for the first time, archaeologists have been able to prove ...