An eliptical setting (about twenty-one metres by ninteen metres) of five large stones just a few hundred metres from Calanais I. The tallest stone is nearly three and a half metres in height.
Originally this was a ring of ten stones with an eleventh outlier. A cairn, eight and a half metres in diameter, was built in the circle a little to the east of centre.
Post-hole evidence suggests that, before the stones were erected, there was a timber circle on this site; this would have been about ten metres in diameter.
See also: Calanais I, Calanais III, Calanais IV and Calanais VIII.
1/18 Calanais II with Calanais I on the distant skyline to the left of the stone.
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5/18 Calanais II with Calanais I on the distant skyline to the left of the stone.
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11/18 Calanais II from the west
12/18 Calanais II from the east
13/18 Calanais II with Calanais I silhouetted on the distant skyline.
14/18 Looking southwest.
15/18 Looking southeast.
16/18 The western stones.
17/18 Looking west.
18/18 The beautifully patterned northern stone.
Nearby Sites
0km Calanais I Stone Circle; Stone Rows; Cairn
0km Calanais III Stone Circle
2km Calanais IV Stone Circle
5km Calanais VIII Standing Stones
9km Achmore Stone Circle
9km Dun Carloway Broch
13km Shawbost Mill Norse Iron-Age Horizontal Mill
(NB: All distances are as-the-crow-flies. Lochs, mountains and beautiful winding roads will make it further. Sometimes much further.)