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The Queen Stone Standing Stone (Menhir) in Herefordshire, England

📷 Adam Stanford More: http://www.megalithi...

The Queen Stone: A squatter version of the Devil's Arrows, near Ross-on-Wye. Very grooved, probably due to the action of rainwater. It doesn't look it but it is 7ft (2.1m) tall. On private land quite a way from the road, in a field in the bend of the River Wye, at Symonds Yat.

Vielsted Runddysse 1: One of Denmark's most impressive and well-preserved dolmens with 19 large kerbstones visible. #TombTuesday The chamber has 4 orthostats (uprights) and a large capstone as you can see. Lots more photos on our page. 📷 Tonnox More: http://www.megalithi...

...but can you give us any more information? Any packing stone finds? Any ramp like features that might indicate a stone being inserted or removed? Anything that might allow you to be more positive? Thanks @olafbayer.bsky.social

Durrington Walls Close up of the 3D interpretation of the proposed stone row. (NOW OUT OF DATE - the geophysical anomalies turned out to be large pits, not stones, see the main page for more) Photo (dis)Credit: Lud

Hello @olafbayer.bsky.social - I understand the caution over the possible stone circle at Castilly - I'm remembering the famous reconstruction issued by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of similar results from Durrington that turned out not to be... www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?...

Castilly Henge Henge in Cornwall, England

Overall the monument is approximately 60m wide by 80m long, with the outer bank up to 2m high from the bottom of the inner ditch. 📷 Historic England More: http://www.megalithi...

Castilly Henge is next to the Innis Downs roundabout on the A30, it is a large egg shaped late Neolithic earthwork approximately 30m wide on the inside from each edge of the ditch.

The archaeologists are currently tight lipped on whether they are any closer to establishing if the seven 'anomalies' located by survey in 2022 are stone holes from a possible circle.

Castilly Henge: The recent excavation at Castilly Henge has now finished, with finds including fragments of Neolithic flint tools and post-medieval pottery.

Love a Clonehenge! @clonehenge.bsky.social

I take your point but Cornwall has dozens of impressive stone circles already that are analogous to Stonehenge - actual henge or not. <Somewhere>’s Stonehenge is just such a cringeworthy cliche, we see it everywhere and drives me nuts.

But are the archaeologists baffled yet?

Hello, I knew it couldn’t have been, I’m pointing the finger at a daft subeditor or Stephen Morris himself. Someone please bring back dear Maev Kennedy. Such a good project, looking forward to hearing more in due course.

‘It would be wonderful’: the team hoping to unearth ‘Cornwall’s Stonehenge’ Experts and volunteers working at Castilly Henge have been trying determine if it is the county’s lost great stone circle

Such a good project but I despair of the reporting. Who is the guilty party, a subeditor or Stephen Morris himself? Someone please bring back dear Maev Kennedy.#StandingStoneSunday www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“Cornwall's Stonehenge?” in the Guardian. Seriously?
Altogether now: AAAAARRRGGH!!!
It’s in quotes but surely this didn’t come from the archaeologists? @olafbayer.bsky.social @cornwallarch.bsky.social /1

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Duddo Five Stones Stone Circle in Northumberland, England

Burl wrote that the direction the stones face in the circle is wrong and that some of them rock under little pressure. They make a fine spectacle standing on the skyline of the hill and it is easy to see why the place was chosen. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

Duddo Five Stones: Art by Bladup, lots more in our Art section #StandingStoneSunday. This circle in Northumberland lies atop a hill surrounded by farmland. One of the stones was re-erected in the 1920s and Burl believes that it is probable that they have all been re-erected at some point. More 1/

2 metres wide lined with alternating orthostats and dry stone walling set within a near circular cairn 12 metres in diameter at construction but later reduced to 7 metres north east by 9 metres east west. 📷 Catrinm More: http://www.megalithi...

Broadsands Chambered Tomb: A Neolithic chambered tomb or passage grave located on the southern slope overlooking the Torbay coast at Broadsands. This megalithic chamber has a single parallel-sided entrance passage 3.8 metres long and 1.

I could also find at least 6 "sun circles" and spiral figures, at least 50 cup marks and pairs of soles. A pair of footsole carvings on top of the panel is unusually deeply carved. 📷 kenntha88 More: http://www.megalithi...

Skjelin-Østre: This rock art site is one of the largest and most interesting in Østfold discovered the last 10 years. When I visited I could find at least 5 ship figures of the typical bronze age type with high front and back ends and vertical lines thought to resemble crew.

Trowlesworthy Tor north settlement Ancient Village or Settlement in Devon, England

Unlike the substantial settlement opposite (see Nearby Sites list on our page), there are no large enclosures, and only the remains of a dozen or so single huts or enclosures are to be found, none in very good condition. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

Trowlesworthy Tor north settlement: On the north eastern slopes of Trowlesworthy Tor, on the southern banks of the River Plym below Spanish Lake, Dartmoor are the much ruined remains of a settlement. They show up very will on the LiDAR here.

The paper is: Pre-Hispanic ritual use of psychoactive plants at Chavín de Huántar. Open Access download available - click on 'Download PDF' at the bottom of the page here: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Chavín de Huantar Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru

An archaeological site in Peru containing ruins and artefacts constructed beginning about 850 BCE and occupied until about 300 BCE by the Chavín, a major pre-Inca culture. 📷 sophs74 More: http://www.megalithi...

Direct evidence of this psychoactive plant use has recently been published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences, details below.

Chavín de Huantar: Recently excavated deposits sealed in an underground gallery at Chavín contained twenty-three bone tubes that are associated with consumption of psychoactive plants elsewhere in the region.

Castell Bryn-Gwyn: The hillfort is defended by a bank and ditch and accessed by a causeway. #HillfortsWednesday Excavations have revealed that it has a long history dating back to the Neolithic period when it was created as a henge. 📷 Horatio More: http://www.megalithi...

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