CAL 1. Callanish Central.
Professor Alexander Thom interfered with numerous monuments. It seemed there was no end to his interference. Even Callanish Central, as shown in the picture, did not escape his meddling. Furthermore, a few years later, some students from Glasgow University conducted a survey that shifted a stone metaphorically to bias Thom's distorted geometry.
Moreover, professional and amateur authors disregarded the deception by Thom and Glasgow University to profit from books that included sections on Callanish. Such corruption is rife in Britain's archaeological world.
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The Callanish stones are set on gently sloping ground that terminates in a rocky outcrop called "Cnoc-an-Turso." Halfway up this slope, an egg-shaped ring of standing stones, based on Pythagorean triangles, was constructed. At the centre of this geometric egg lay a stone-lined burial kist, in which the body of a significant person had been interred. The entrance to this kist is aligned with the rising equinoctial sun and moon.
Alexander Thom made Callanish famous for the moon skimming the horizon when furthest south, without mentioning that this apparition cannot be seen from the egg because Cnoc-an-Turso blocks the view.
CAL 2. The Real Callanish Egg, Isle of Lewis. Update 30 June 2026. Dedicated to all those who still doubt the Megalithic yard, which was divided into 40 parts to make the Megalithic Inch.
The engineers who built this stone egg began by defining north and south with great accuracy. Next, according to Somerville, they placed a pair of stones to mark the position of the northernmost moonrise, which arrives several degrees later than it would otherwise due to the 248-metre-high Bein Raathacleit and the 261-metre-high Bein Bhragair.
The Callanish egg can be compared with Woodhenge and Durrington Walls' Southern Circle, which are also based on a triad of circles and share a blending radius.
It is easy to imagine that Callanish set the trend, bringing the idea of triangles and eggs to Wiltshire, where it was copied. Since Beaker People built Woodhenge and Durrington's Southern Circle, Callanish folks may have been their ancestors.
CAL 3. Everything that can be wrong with Glasgow University’s geometry is wrong with this image.
It follows Alexander Thom's faulty convention, in which the geometry passes through the centres of the stones, not their inner faces as it should. Worse still, Glasgow has shifted Somerville's Stone 42 by 0.6 of a Megalithic Yard (19.5 imperial inches) to bias Thom’s flattened circle.
CAL 4 Male stone recognition.
It’s not phallic but is certainly recognisable to Stone Age people as male. This is Avebury's Covestone 1. The angle on its top was their way of signifying male. But I am unaware of any burial at Avebury's Cove, apart from barley seeds placed beneath Stone 2.
CAL 5. With its angular top, Callanish's tallest stone - effectively a headstone to the Kist - is male, as are several others in the ring.
The practice of placing an angle on top of stones to denote them as male is found countrywide, from Orkney's Ring of Brodgar, through the long barrow of Waylands Smithy, to the male bluestone 49, which welcomes visitors when entering Stonehenge.
CAL 6. Waylands Smithy.
This is an early photograph of the long barrow burial mound at Waylands Smithy, south-east of Swindon. Note the male and female stones flanking each side of the entrance to its chambers. These stones should be compared with Stone 31 (female) and Stone 49 (male), which stand just inside Stonehenge’s solstice doorway.
CAL 7. The Secret of Callanish I. Submitted 1st July 2026
The builders of Callanish 1 felt they had everything needed to bring the sun, moon and stars together for childbirth.
Guided by the Avenue of paired stones, the hoped-for child, born of this union, was to be laid in the "Dark sky"
All photos of Callanish are credited to Gary and Alison Smith.
112. I regret to say that this image has been placed here due to limited space. Had there been the room, it would have been placed at the top of the section on Stonehenge gold.
Mount Pleasant in Dorset is famous for the Iron Age henge and palisade, which once enclosed the glacially smoothed rise a mile east of Dorchester. However, the beaker people travelling south from Stonehenge in 2500 BC were the first to be attracted to its smooth south-facing slope, which was ideal for building a henge to observe the Polar stars and the slowly disappearing stars of the Southern Circle.
Mount Pleasant, east of Dorchester in Dorset.
Shortly after finishing or abandoning Stonehenge, Beaker folks relocated south to observe the Southern Cross and create artwork within a small circular henge that Professor Wainwright named Site IV.
Site IV used 180 slender posts about a megalithic yard in height, and when finished, this artwork resembled a hairbrush for combing tangled hair. Site IV artwork featured five eggs pointing toward moonrises and moonsets while its single causeway aimed north. While the moon alignments are close, they are not exact—Ref Stonehenge's axes.
Rings A, B, and C point northwest toward the northernmost moonset, while rings D and E point southeast toward the southernmost moonrise.
Professor John North, a staunch advocate of the megalithic yard, wrote that the outer egg is based on a pair of 1.5, 2, and 2.5 (3, 4, 5) megalithic yard Pythagorean triangles. This egg has a major axis of length 47 megalithic yards. CAD has confirmed John North as correct. “Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos, John North 1996.”
Ring C is the most significant among the three outer rings due to its tri-circle design. This is reminiscent of Woodhenge's outer ring, Durrington's Southern Circle’s outer ring, and the egg in the centre of Scottish Callanish I. These four type-style eggs connect the Beaker people and their geometric representations across the country.
Rings D and E point in the opposite direction towards the southernmost moonrise. These rings are based on the identical tiny 18, 24, and 30 megalithic inch triangle that Stonehenge's geometry is based on.
Ring D geometry can be found in the section on Stonehenge Geometry.
113. Ring E, Site IV, Mount Pleasant, Dorset.
More proof of the Megalithic yard and inch and that Stonehenge geometry was based on a tiny Pythagorean triangle.
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