Colin Perkins

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The #Okapi is to #Congo what the Panda is to China, a national treasure and a strange blend of a #giraffe and #zebra. They're #endangered by #palmoil and #tobacco #deforestation. Help them survive when u #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-10X

The #Okapi is to #Congo what the Panda is to China, a national treasure and a strange blend of a #giraffe and #zebra. They're #endangered by #palmoil and #tobacco #deforestation. Help them survive when u #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-10X

The #Okapi is to #Congo what the Panda is to China, a national treasure and a strange blend of a #giraffe and #zebra. They're #endangered by #palmoil and #tobacco #deforestation. Help them survive when u #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-10X

The #Okapi is to #Congo what the Panda is to China, a national treasure and a strange blend of a #giraffe and #zebra. They're #endangered by #palmoil and #tobacco #deforestation. Help them survive when u #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-10X

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On the same day in the Telegraph:

A ‘mystery monkey’ in Borneo may be a rare hybrid between a Proboscis Monkey and Silvery Lutung A new study has found that fragmentation of forests in Malaysian Borneo due to palm oil and mining has pressured two species of monkey (the Proboscis Monkey and Silvered Leaf Monkey/Silvery Lutung)…

Widespread #PalmOil #Deforestation 🌴🚜🔥 is pressuring Proboscis #Monkeys 🐒🐵 and Silvery Lutungs to have hybrid offspring. This unusual behaviour has researchers worried. Help irreplaceable monkeys survive! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🩸☠️🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife

Well worth catching.

Some of the stones of the Great Circle of the Late #Neolithic complex at #StantonDrew, Somerset. #StandingStoneSunday #DailyMegalith @megalithic.bsky.social

Information panel for The Cove at Stanton Drew.

The three stones making up The Cove at Stanton Drew.

The NE Circle at Stanton Drew.

Some of the stones of the SW Circle at Stanton Drew.

Got here at last (on 7th July): The Cove, the NE Circle and part of the SW Circle of the Late #Neolithic complex at #StantonDrew, Somerset. #StandingStoneSunday #DailyMegalith @megalithic.bsky.social

Well worth a visit if you are in Oxford.

Le Plasker in Plouharnel (fifth millennium cal BC): a newly discovered section of the megalithic complex of Carnac | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Le Plasker in Plouharnel (fifth millennium cal BC): a newly discovered section of the megalithic complex of Carnac

Hooray, dates for a Carnac region stone row! Fascinating excavation of a tomb, aligned standing stones & cooking pits at Le Plasker shows that the stone alignments were built piecemeal c.4680-4250 cal BC, and the tomb was built on the site of Mesolithic occupation: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Part of an ancient group of egg-laying monotreme #mammals, Attenborough Long-Beaked #Echidnas of #WestPapua are critically endangered. Fight for their survival when you shop and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-7Qj

Part of an ancient group of egg-laying monotreme #mammals, Attenborough Long-Beaked #Echidnas of #WestPapua are critically endangered. Fight for their survival when you shop and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-7Qj

Part of an ancient group of egg-laying monotreme #mammals, Attenborough Long-Beaked #Echidnas of #WestPapua are critically endangered. Fight for their survival when you shop and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-7Qj

Part of an ancient group of egg-laying monotreme #mammals, Attenborough Long-Beaked #Echidnas of #WestPapua are critically endangered. Fight for their survival when you shop and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-7Qj

Part of an ancient group of egg-laying monotreme #mammals, Attenborough Long-Beaked #Echidnas of #WestPapua are critically endangered. Fight for their survival when you shop and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-7Qj

Bear Cuscus' 🐻🩷 are found on #Sulawesi #Indonesia 🇮🇩 they are vulnerable due to #palmoil #deforestation 🌴🪔☠️🧐⛔️ and #hunting. Support this beautiful animal with your weekly shop #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/26/bear-cuscus-ailurops-ursinus/

Bear Cuscus' 🐻🩷 are found on #Sulawesi #Indonesia 🇮🇩 they are vulnerable due to #palmoil #deforestation 🌴🪔☠️🧐⛔️ and #hunting. Support this beautiful animal with your weekly shop #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/26/bear-cuscus-ailurops-ursinus/

Bear Cuscus' 🐻🩷 are found on #Sulawesi #Indonesia 🇮🇩 they are vulnerable due to #palmoil #deforestation 🌴🪔☠️🧐⛔️ and #hunting. Support this beautiful animal with your weekly shop #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/26/bear-cuscus-ailurops-ursinus/

Bear Cuscus' 🐻🩷 are found on #Sulawesi #Indonesia 🇮🇩 they are vulnerable due to #palmoil #deforestation 🌴🪔☠️🧐⛔️ and #hunting. Support this beautiful animal with your weekly shop #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/26/bear-cuscus-ailurops-ursinus/

Bear Cuscus' 🐻🩷 are found on #Sulawesi #Indonesia 🇮🇩 they are vulnerable due to #palmoil #deforestation 🌴🪔☠️🧐⛔️ and #hunting. Support this beautiful animal with your weekly shop #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/26/b...

Birtles Farm, a 17thC house better known to millions of readers as Highmost Redmanhey from Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

I'll be talking about this & other sites at an event on Alan Garner & Archaeology at Biddulph Grange in 2 weeks, 6 July:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/shrops...

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Here's a pic of the stone circle in Gorsedd Gardens, Cathays Park from August 2023, along with the Gorsedd Stone Circle in Bute Park.

Very sad news indeed.

A megalithic tomb, formed by a line of stones set on edge and then capped with flat stones, stands within a grassy area surrounded by trees and a low stone wall. The waters of Lough Gur can be made out in the background

The Giant's Grave Wedge Tomb • Lough Gur • Limerick

This fine example of a wedge tomb was excavated in 1938, and it was found to contain the remains of at least eight adults and four children.

Subsequent radiocarbon dating suggests that the burials date between 2202–2162 BC.

#Archaeology 🏺

Where did you find it?

Wow!

Me too. Still have my copy from about the same time; had to re-glue the pages!

Glad they were as impressed by Midhowe Stalled Cairn as we were! There's a fantastic broch next door. (On iPlayer, the programme just suddenly ends - no closing remarks.)

Thanks for the heads-up!

The Toots long barrow on Selsley Common, near Stroud, last week (historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...). At c. 73 m, it was tricky to capture on my phone camera. Approached it from All Saints Church, Selsley (felt like a vertical climb!). Great views over the Severn. #TombTuesday #Neolithic

Snap!

Tŷ Mawr Burial Chamber NE of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, #Anglesey (photo taken in 2010). This is a collapsed #Neolithic dolmen, probably the remains of a simple passage grave. The original OS map is said to show a covering stone cairn roughly 15 m by 10 m. #TombTuesday #DailyMegalith

I posted this earlier and forgot to mention the lichens on this Ring of Brodgar stone (almost obscuring the #Norse#Runes).

Blown away by WC21’s new video on ‘Stainton Fell Long Barrow’! ⭐️

A very remote site that’s so rarely visited, and never-before photographed…

Link to full video here: youtu.be/pXqoDh-Hn-s?...

#StandingStoneSunday #archaeology #history #LakeDistrict 🤩

Wawiriya Burton, senior Australian Aboriginal artist and healer who, in collaboration with her daughters, painted Mingkiri Tjukurpa, 2011 #WomensArt

Ring of Brodgar graffiti for #StandingStoneSunday (from a visit back in 2012): twig runes and a cross (www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/the-norse-on...), found in 1906 during an operation to lift a fallen stone. #DailyMegalith #Orkney

And he died on St Patrick's Day.

'Standing stones' near the entrance to Worcester Woods Country Park (January).

A circle of stones in playing fields, Diglis, Worcester.

Three stone blocks outside the Wickes store, Tallow Hill, Worcester.

Two large stone blocks, outside the Library, Avonbank, Pershore College.

As noted by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social, we seem to like erecting large stones, often arranging them in circles. For #StandingStoneSunday, some 'new stones' in Worcestershire 😉 (@megalithic.bsky.social): Worcester Woods Country Park, Diglis Fields, by Wickes and Pershore College (see Alt text).