Fiona Robertson

Cumbria, near Penrith

Was that for pedestrians @classicalalan.bsky.social ? The ground level would have been lower then!

An excellent night of folklore on Friday with @stonelands.bsky.social @icysedgwick.bsky.social and @occultaria.bsky.social! Now to keep our eyes peeled for stone megaliths, grey ladies and singular gloves...👻👻👻

Long Meg, a witch turned to stone, stands next to her many stony-hearted daughters (or, alternatively, her lovers or her fellow witches). If you break bits off her, she will bleed. A wonderful stone decorated with rock art, she marks the direction of winter solstice sunset. #StandingStoneSunday

Dowsing at Avebury (oil on canvas) for #StandingStoneSunday

#Avebury #dowsing

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It’s really mind boggling!

My first time of seeing- wonderful!@

Yes!

Lincoln’s Newport Arch was built by the Romans in the 3rd century and is still very much in use by vehicles today, some 1,800 years later- this is pretty amazing!

Looking forward to it! ❤️

A ticket for Fantastic Folklore at Lincoln Arts Centre.

Folklore on a Friday! Can't wait to hear this talk from @icysedgwick.bsky.social @stonelands.bsky.social and @occultaria.bsky.social as part of the Lincoln Book Festival

Many copies of Hillforts at the book launch

The cover of the hillforts book

Toby speaking on BBC news

Hillforts on the cover of Current Archaeology

Crikey it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳

...& 2 years this week since 'Hillforts of Iron Age Wales' launched with Logaston Press 🛖🎂

It had to be reprinted a couple of months later after being featured on BBC Wales News 🎥

Hopefully the book has helped everyone discover the hillforts of Cymru/Wales! 🍻

A reminder re the FANTASTIC FOLKLORE evening this Fri 3rd Oct at Lincoln Book Festival featuring @katecherrell.bsky.social @icysedgwick.bsky.social @occultaria.bsky.social and me! Weird sites, weird folklore, weird happenings – can't wait ... lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/fantas...

Interesting thought!

Thank you - interested!

OK! Interesting. Don’t suppose you have a pic - would love to see …

Me too - I keep thinking about it!

At Michaelmas, the people of Iona used to race their horses around the Sithean Mòr (big fairy mound) – probably an old animal-blessing ritual. There seems to have been a prehistoric cairn at the top of the hill but it's long gone. This is also the mound on which St Columba discoursed with angels!

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Nice!

Lochbuie stone circle. Nine granite megaliths shape a circle, close to the shoreline in the shadow of Ben Buie on the Isle of Mull. Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age #StandingStoneSunday

Built - it’s an ancient stone row, originally with 5 stones upright!

Kilmore stone row (aka Dervaig B) on the Isle of Mull. A dreich kind of day a few years ago now, when the pine plantation was in the process of being felled, leaving the ground raw and stubbly but also revealing what may have been the stones’ original views to the horizon! #StandingStoneSunday

Black and white photo of a slab-like standing stone at an angle

The same stone from behind

The same store from the side

The Hanging Stone (or Leaning Stone) at Lee Moor #Dartmoor. It’s a real unit of a slab. Nearly 10ft tall if it was upright

Lots of prehistory around Lee Moor, the Upper Plymouth. Lots.

#StandingStoneSunday But

I love this!

A watercolour painting of a stone circle in a henge with a stylised sun with a face hanging in the sky above.

This is 'Sunhenge', one of my new series of paintings inspired by folk art and ancient megaliths. The original artwork is now available on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#StandingStoneSunday

Two standing stones on moorland in the morning gloom

#StandingStoneSunday 7:00am yesterday morning on moorland above Aberystwyth..

There was just time to snap my local standing stones, Buwch a'r llo, at sunrise on the way to Butser

..and no filter - this is what came out of the camera 😮🌞

Have a fab Sunday everyone

The Megalithic Portal's Top 15 Stone Rows in England: Something we did in our book The Old Stones, #StandingStoneSunday was to attempt objective ratings of the best of various types of megalithic monuments to visit in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland.

It really is