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A small dolmen, several upright stones supporting a capstone in a field surrounded by yellow flowers. A small child stands to the right and another sits on top of the capstone.

Pic for #TombTuesday from a summer 2011 trip to Plejerupdyssen, near Holbaek in Denmark. This dolmen stands on a long barrow which is surrounded by kerbstones.

The Nine Stones near Winterbourne Abbas, Dorset courtesy of Ethan Doyle White. #StandingStoneSunday #megaliths #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Archaeology

Many standing stones arranged in "ship shape", probably from the Iron Age, but possibly earlier (or from what I understand something there earlier). A cliff top site overlooking the sea in southern Sweden.

Ales Stenar in Scania has lots!?!? Not sure it's early though. Sorry for the terrible pic.

A photo taken on a wet day from behind a car window showing several standing stones - of those visible two are tall and two are much smaller. A fence and small trees obscure the view of the circle which has nine stones.

The Nine Stones at Winterbourne Abbas, pic taken while driving past on the A35 (I wasn't doing the driving!). I was surprised I actually got them. No time to stop and have a proper look on this occasion, and of course it was pouring with rain. #StandingStoneSunday

A large capstone tests at an angle on three orthostats. A rare blue sky provides a welcome backdrop.

Trethevy Quoit. #TombTuesday

Three visible stones. All less the 0.4 metres high. Siblyback Lake just visible in the distance.

A view of more stones, aligned in a row stretching up a gentle moor land slope.

A small section of the Craddock Moor stone row. 244m long, the stones are tiny so my photos don't really do it justice. Set in a landscape that includes cairns, an embanked avenue and a stone circle, one of my favourite places to explore in St. Cleer. #StandingStoneSunday

View into the amphitheatre, curved bank surround oval shaped flat area, entrances at opposite ends.

View showing height of the banks.

Got a #RomanSiteSaturday while travelling from Cornwall to Southampton yesterday - conveniently near EV charger and somewhere for lunch - Maumbury Rings in Dorchester - one time earlier henge reused as a Roman Amphitheatre. Hengitheatre? AmphiHenge?

Jim!

The Nighingales

The Nighingales

The Nighingales

Gig night! All the way to Southampton to see The Nightingales! They're so fab.

A large stone cairn partially covered with turf on open moorland.

Out and about on the Craddock Moor area of Bodmin Moor to see this #TombTuesday cairn which is one we watch due to damage by some idiot(s). From this angle it doesn't look too bad, but we now have a fairy stack with the various other rearranging that's gone on. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

It will be worth the wait. I had plans this week to catch up on some area rep bits and pieces for CAS but not sure that will happen. I don't mind a bit of rain, but what's the point of being out on the moors when you can't see where you're going!

A bright blue sky (a rarity!) provides the background to a circle created by standing stones with a central stone which leans towards the left of the circle from the angle the picture is taken, makes it look like a sundial.

Boscawen-Ûn stone circle near St Buryan, #Cornwall. A #StandingStoneSunday taken on Valentine's day three years ago. We visited several Penwith ancient sites that day which was much better than flowers and a fancy restaurant!

Aargh. Typo 😳 "marchands". Shouldn't post without preparing carefully at first - especially first thing in the morning. 😴

A narrow chamber created by several orthostats with capstones laying above, leads to a chamber which has been lit. The carved detail in one of the chamber's orthostats is just about visible.

A view into the chamber of La Table des Merchands at Locmariaquer in Brittany. Taken on a visit two years ago. #TombTuesday

Bad weather made us postpone a tree planting but we were back out on Feb 7th to put in 21 trees. We had a few extra helpers!!! Thanks as always to our amazing volunteers and to #CornwallCommunityFoundation who helped fund the purchase of tools and hybrid elms. #ForestForCornwall supplied the trees.

The colour photo shows a collection standing in front of a church. There is a calvaire, several small standing stones, a statue of a man, a very tall menhir and two stones which have brass (?) memorial plaques presumably to WW1 and WW2 (I didn't take close ups).

This picture is a different view of the previous, but included the flag pole with the French tricolor which was obscured in the previous view.

If a #StandingStoneSunday post can represent how I'm finding life as an Assistant Headteacher as I reach half-way through my first year in the job - it would be this assemblage from Plozevet in Brittany. A bit of everything going on here!

Enjoy! And wear waterproof boots! This photo was taken a year ago during a very wet spell - the surrounding moor/footpaths were under water in parts so we had to pick our route carefully. This year I think we're currently experiencing even more rain.

A large capstone rests on upright stones.

Chûn Quoit for #TombTuesday. #Cornwall #Archaeology

Carnac, Feb 2012. Running through the rows of alignments.

Hellstone Dolmen in Dorset, 2011

Somewhere in Spain, 2010. This one can still fall asleep wherever and whenever. It's a skill.

At the Menhirs de Monteneuf in Brittany, 2007. The other one probably ran in the opposite direction.

Celebrating 21 years of (surviving) being parents to twins this week. Plenty of pics of them running away from the camera while visiting old stones. #StandingStoneSunday @chrisull.bsky.social

You can pay to join a guided tour (!) during the summer - or go off season when the gates are unlocked.

A large standing stone - nearly 5 meters high stands on moorland. This photo has a grey sky. The stone looks bright though as veins of feldspar run through the shale creating shade of grey and white.

Cornwall's largest standing stone - Men Gurta on St Breock Downs. The power lines behind making it look like it's held up by string. #StandingStoneSunday

Before the fences went up. Great photo.

It's really beautiful - I didn't think there would be so much remaining and shamefully this was my first visit despite living not far away. Trago on the other hand is one to be avoided!

Earthworks of the Iron Age hillfort, obscured by trees but just still visible.

Earthworks of the Iron Age hillfort, obscured by trees but just still visible.

Earthworks of the Iron Age hillfort, obscured by trees but just still visible.

Nestled in a forest in the hills above Liskeard's Trago Mills - Largin Castle for #HillfortsWednesday is well worth seeking out.

Grassy mound covering a chamber formed by upright stones and a capstone.

Brane Entrance grave near Sancreed, in Cornwall. #TombTuesday

Picture of a triangular shaped standing stone which has a bit of a lean, with a glimpse of another stone lying fallen nearby. The landscape is grassy moorland.

One of the few remaining standing stones of Louden Hill Stone circle on Bodmin Moor. #StandingStoneSunday pic from a couple of years ago while on a walk that started near Stannon Stone Circle and could have taken in Fernacre too - but either weather or time was against us.

Coetan Arthur (also known as Arthur’s Quoit) - the remains of a Neolithic burial chamber close to St. David’s Head in Pembrokeshire, dating to around 3000 BC. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Pembrokeshire

A huge burial chamber in a small enclosure.

Another West Walian example this morning...Carreg Coetan Arthur, Newport, Pembrokeshire #TombTuesday

Large capstone resting on three upright stones. In the background a hill seems to be a similar shape.

Llech y Drybedd cromlech near Moylegrove in Pembrokeshire, seeming to mirror the shape of Carningli mountain in the background. #TombTuesday

A large stony mound which outcrops of grass, moss and thrift threaten to consume. At the base are two black portals and in between them a side that reads in French ‘ thank you for not climbing on the tumulus - protected site’

An inner chamber vault with exquisite stone work lit by a small doorway through which daylight floods. This was built in the Neolithic, if someone told you it was a medieval abbey crypt you probably wouldn’t argue.

The truly epic Ile Carn tumulus, one that can only be reached, on foot, at low tide. #TombTuesday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

A nearly 3m high stone on a coastal hilltop with view of a beach in the distance.

The Lostmarc'h menhir - near Crozon in Brittany. I *think* thought to be part of an alignment. Just below this headland but out of view is the Oppidum de la Pointe de Lostmarc'h. It's a really spectacular place to visit. #StandingStoneSunday