AN admission fee at a popular Scottish tourist site has been proposed amid a rise in the number of visitors.
The Calanais Standing Stones in Lewis date back 5000 years and Scotland’s heritage agency is now considering introducing an entry fee, according to a report in The Guardian.
Ian Fordham, the chair of Urras nan Tursachan , which owns the Calanais visitor centre and backs the fee proposal, said there was an urgent need to tackle the impact of increasing visitor numbers.The site is braced for an increase in day-trippers after a new deep water port for large cruise ships opens in Stornoway next year.
Fordham said: “With increasing footfall at the stones, there’s increasing risk of conservation damage, conservation risk to the stones. He said problems at the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney, which had to be closed to build new paths, was a warning of what could happen at Calanais.
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