Simon (@weborguk@toot.community)

Fair enough!

Lucas de Heere's watercolour of Stonehenge, c.1573-1575.

Henry was being hopeful :-)

Bright green curtain of aurora extending through Taurus down towards Jupiter and Gemini, from South Wiltshire UK, Jan 19 2026

That green bar of light in the southern sky only lasted a short while, but it was spectacular. Back garden near Stonehenge, UK. Canon 1100D 10s @ 800 ISO 28mm f4.5

A cropped closeup of Plate 3 showing the four postholes just outside the causeway entrance, extracted from Maud Cunnington's Woodhenge monograph.

@amandachadburn.bsky.social - these are the postholes I mentioned (holes 1 to 4 in Plate 3 of MEC's monograph) just outside of the causeway entrance but effectively under the henge bank, so probably early features. The E-W sightline has been (hurriedly, by me) marked with dashes. See you soon!

The iconic TARDIS from Doctor Who standing in the monument field with the equally iconic Stonehenge in the background for Doctor Who Day 2025.

Happy #DoctorWhoDay!

Indeed! It only lasted a short while because people started to come specially on that day of the week. Ropes went up in 78 as you said.

The thing is in the early days of EH the staff used to bugger off home if there were few visitors and the weather was iffy so it's possible people wandered in for free from time to time. And don't forget there used to be "no ropes days" for a while, with access into the circle (Tuesdays, I think).

A child came up to me when I worked at SH (2010-2016), told me she'd counted the stones in the circle, that there ought to be 30 if they were all still there, and that was the # of days in the month. She continued that 12x30=360 and there were 5 big doorways making 365. I didn't get her name.

Definitely already done, and Tim wasn't even the first to suggest it (though his was the first in recent years to think about how to work the circle into a year count).

Problem with all these ideas is that if you're going to count stones, you really ought to count all of them :-)

Sooo… when does Grok get given a GPP?

Inside the civil war in English Heritage which has brought its chief down Nearly 200 planned redundancies and shuttered historic sites have left staff mutinous and weighing up strike action

Cameron split English Heritage from Historic England in 2015, bunged EH a one-off £80m & untied its moorings. It was never going to work
@suegreaney.bsky.social: "the only solution is for English Heritage to be taken back in by the nation, and renationalised,”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Nope, no idea sorry. I was at Lacock chatting with the Wilts Astro lot.

An upside down "IN" sign, reading therefore "NI", with a handwritten note above it reading "We want a shrubbery!'

Amanda - can you let me know the precise timestamp for this photo? Useful for horizon profiling and other stuff. Ta.

This sort of hassle is why I routinely set a fixed camera and do timelapses and montages - helps to be able to see the path and gives the possibility of projecting to the rise or set position (accounting for the refraction curve, of course).

Well deserved!

Happy to help.

Great pic, and very atmospheric. I went for a wider view to get a montage as it progressed.

Ah, but is it ruined or in the process of being built...? "Right, we've got these 6 up - what's next?"

The Larkhill Sun Gap Revisited The Summer Solstice Sunrise line as seen from Stonehenge runs across the landscape and over the ridgeline at Larkhill, at the northern end o...

The Larkhill Sun Gap - an article by me working out exactly where it was.

www.stonehengemonument.co.uk/2025/02/the-...

Don’t mention that man’s name to me, ever. My opinion of him is unprintable.

And now so do I. But with the misheard lyrics from Never Mind the Buzzcocks 1990s style.

The one the staff buried at the old Stonehenge visitor centre might be an exception.

In the words of the wonderful Steve Wright, everything is within walking distance if you have the time.

If you look back at the creation of what's now called social media (eg systems like PLATO, The WeLL, BBSes, CiX &c) then their original aims were all quite different from each other and also to those that triggered the modern incarnations. I'm not sure the analogy holds up, but I get the point.

I think there's a qualitative difference between dragging large rocks around and participating in social media :-) But let's not overlook the creation of, and mass migration to, alternative platforms in response to a perceived threat.

Archaeoacoustics - by design, or simply emergent properties noticed after the fact... some fascinating threads to follow in that direction. And a scale model is always useful.

You're right, and I put it too strongly in that comment above - not everything that brings people together *has* to be a threat. Spectacle works too. Many possibilities.

Tsk! $deity! :-)