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Ollie looking at the Watchstone, which is 5.5m tall. It's a fine, sunny day with blue skies and fluffly clouds. The Loch of Stenness is visible on the right.

#DailyMegalith #StandingStoneSunday

Ollie at the Watchstone, #Stenness #Orkney #Scotland (2018)

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March Hares! ‘I shall go into a hare’…. Painted, engraved stained glass, private collection.

Two ancient copper spoons with decoration on the handles

In honour of #StDavidsDay here are the wonderful Penbryn Spoons, which were found in 1829 beneath a heap of stones inside the Castell Nadolig hillfort, near Penbryn in Ceredigion, Wales. The pair of cast bronze ‘spoons’ date to the Late Iron Age (c. 50 BCE–100 CE).

A photo of St David in stained glass

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus i chi gyd

Happy Birthday 🎈

For #StandingStoneSunday today - the tallest menhir from the alignements at St-Pierre-Quiberon (Morbihan) known as The Great Monk from its distinctive outline. Just over 20 menhirs remain from rows which originally stretched out into the Bay of Quiberon. Card by Henri Laurent in Port-Louis 1905.

A large diamond shape stone 5m tall standing in wet short grass with a misty moorland beyond. A female figure stands, braced against the elements, to the left of the stone

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
Here's the great Maen Llia menhir, waiting out the millennia high in the Brecon Beacons since the late Neolithic. With a windswept and rainswept human for scale.
#StandingStoneSunday

Another view of Legananny Dolmen, Down, Ireland
Photographed in digital infrared, July 2014
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #megalithic #Neolithic #Infrared #B&W #Black&White #Monochrome #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #Down

Standing with Stones

I've had a longstanding fascination with ancient religious sites in Britain, and I've decided that this year I'm going to be working on new images inspired by them. In November I showed my new etching and aquatint The Migrants (shown below) at Adam's Gallery in Reigate in an…

Wayland's Smithy from The Ridgeway

High-income countries, home to just 15% of the world's population, emit 34% of global CO2—more than twice their share. They use 6x more resources and generate 10x the climate impact of low-income ones. Overconsumption, not population, drives this inequality. #EnvironmentalDegradation

Metal detectorists find 2,000-year-old treasure in field The find - the first of its kind in west Wales - is incredibly rare and has been described as one of 'historical significance'

Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales.

Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs

Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales 😮

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Rare Roman lead ingots found by metal detectorists in Ceredigion The objects, which were used to produce tools and weapons, were found on grazing land in west Wales.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A photo of Silbury Hill taken from the lay-by, showing the green grass-covered mound surrounded by a water-filled ditch.

The heart-quickening sight of an old friend. #SilburyHill - the largest prehistoric mound in Europe. A Neolithic monument I once spent a year inside. It is a mass of ancient matter, and quicksilver - substantial, heavy, brilliant, yet can’t be pinned down. #Neolithic

Ancient artifacts hint at earliest protowriting Geometric shapes on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory suggest early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language

New research: Paleolithic artifacts hint at earliest protowriting
Geometric shapes on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory suggest early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Always thought ‘The Scream’ setting was a boat… wrong again

Once again...

Photo of black silhouetted bare tree branches in front of a darkening blue sky with glowing moon in the top right corner and a tiny dot of Jupiter in the top left.

Foliose lichen in the fading light dripping off bare thorn trees at dusk below the bright dot of Jupiter and a quarter moon.

Arthur's Stone, with a wonderful view of the Welsh mountains, including the Skirrid. The cupmarks on the huge capstone were imprinted by a giant's elbows when he fell under Arthur's sword. #TombTuesday

Tall stones on moorland surround a small chamber tomb

#TombTuesday - a quiet morning at Callanish before the tourists arrive in June 2024, with my cycling buddies giving me a moment..

Marvelling at the miniature chambered tomb which sits at the heart of the stone circles & alignments, crammed between the tallest central stones 😮

📷 My own

A stone with spiral carvings in a dark chamber

#TombTuesday rare Neolithic tomb art from a Welsh passage grave: multiple spiral motifs inside the Boyne Valley-style cruciform chambers of Barclodiad y Gawres in Ynys Môn/Anglesey

📷 My own, winter 2023

The remains of Cairn Holy II - one of two Neolithic chambered cairns which overlook Wigtown Bay in Dumfries & Galloway. The Clyde-type chambered cairn was traditionally thought to be the tomb of Caldus, the mythical Scottish King. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Archaeology

Barpa Langais - a Neolithic chambered cairn on North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The single entrance cairn is about 25 metres in diameter, and dates to around 3000 BC. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #NorthUist

Dolmen of Soto (Andalusia, #Spain)

Discovered in 1922, Dolmen de Soto is located in the municipality of Trigueros (Huelva), Iberia. Constructed between the Neolithic and Bronze Age ( 3000-2500 BCE).
#TombTuesday #Archaeology

A great stone dolmen in a grassy mound

The week hasn't really started without #TombTuesday 🥳💀

Here is the magnificent Arthur's Stone Neolithic tomb above Dorstone in Herefordshire before the more recent excavations began.

This important tomb once sat at the heart of a prehistoric monument complex

📷 My own, 2021

A black and white photo of three upright stones and a capstone forming a burial chamber in Newport, Pembrokeshire.

Carreg Coetan, Trefdraeth / Newport, Sir Penfro / Pembrokeshire, Wales

📷 05.04.22

#TombTuesday
#RockinTuesday
#ClassicMono
#BlackandWhite
#BlancoYNegro
#BlackandWhitePhotography

Ahh thanks very much (please don’t go to loads of effort on my behalf though). Love your folklore snippets!

Hordron edge stone circle with win hill and lose hill in the distance

A windy but sunny hordron edge stone circle some wonderful views this morning #standingstonesunday

Mayburgh: 3
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#StandingStoneSunday with the beautiful Assycombe stone row, Dartmoor

see more from Dartmoor in our new episode >>>
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