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The Drombeg Stone Circle in Ireland. This recumbent stone circle is also known as The Druid's Altar. #StandingStoneSunday

An old postcard of one of the gigantic 'resonant' stones of the Menec complex at #Carnac. This looks like a huge recumbent to me, but I'm sure at least one of you will know whether it's actually a fallen menhir. I guess Pierre refers to St Peter 'the Rock'. #StandingStoneSunday #Neolithic

A small child in Breton dress sits on an enormous flat stone. The words read: '2383 - Les Alignements du Menec - La Pierre resonnante'. The postcard is published by Rennes and is numbered by them 134. This is one of several postcards of Carnac I picked up in a second-hand shop in North Wales of all places.

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Quelques menhirs de l'alignement d'Eured Vein, la Noce de Pierres, avec en arrière-plan, le Mont-Saint-Michel de Brasparts et sa petite chapelle au sommet, survolés par un parapentiste le matin glacial du 31 décembre dernier.

#photography #megalithe #menhir #Bretagne #Finistere #parapente #paragliding #chapelle #lande #MontsdArree #Argoat

Photographie en couleur, présentant au premier plan trois menhirs faisant partie d'un alignement de + de 70 pierres et en arrière-plan, une montagne avec au sommet, une chapelle survolée par un parapentiste sous un ciel uniformément bleu.
Si la végétation du premier plan où se trouvent les trois menhirs est surtout composée d'herbe vertes, la montagne est couverte des plantes que l'on retrouve sur la lande, bruyère notamment.
Bizarrement, un arbuste semble avoir pris la place d'une pierre levée dans l'alignement, en respectant l'intervalle régulier...

For #StandingStoneSunday we have a visit to #Menhir Central, #Carnac in #Brittany and the huge alignments.

Prints: https://prints.travelling-light.net/featured/standing-stone-alignments-carnac-brittany-colin-and-linda-mckie.html

#Breizh #Menhirs #Megaliths #Megalithic #Prehistoric #Photography #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #BWPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Toned

Toned black and white photo of a large number of standing stones in rough grassland, with a busy, contrasty sky above.

Part of Stannon Stone Circle on Bodmin Moor. Photo taken on 30 May 2005.

#StannonStoneCircle #StoneCircles #BodminMoor #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

A part of the arc of the 40m plus diameter Stannon Stone Circle on Bodmin Moor. The moor beyond is relatively flat, leading to a few undulating hills in the distance beneath a blue sky with a few puffy clouds close to the horizon on the left. Part of the arc of the circle of relatively small stones curves around to the left. The stone closest to the camera leans to the right.

#StandingStoneSunday with the always beautiful Bryn Cader Faner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

For more from Ancient Wales & an easy watch for a sunday morning, we had a chat with Dr Toby Driver about all things Hillforts & Wales,
thats here >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyYu0J-04Y

protruding outer stones of the collapsed cairn with the welsh mountains in the background

Ffridd Bryn Coch Stone Row: Situated on a natural spur within a marshy environment the site location provides excellent views across the valley, particularly towards the Rhinog mountains to the west. This is a very rich environment for prehistoric activity. #StandingStoneSunday Read on for details of possible site-to-site alignments. 📷 TAlanJones More: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=58046

St Madoes Stone - a Pictish cross-slab on display at Perth Museum and Art Gallery. The stone originally stood in the village of St Madoes, near Perth. St Madoes is the nickname for Aedan - a 6th century Irish Saint. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #SundayStonework #PerthMuseum

The Baliscate Standing Stones, near Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. The standing stones are one of several prehistoric stone rows on the island. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Mull

The Ring of Brodgar is part of the Orkney Unesco World Heritage Site. It originally had 60 stones, but only 36 survive today. Its diameter is 103.6 metres. Here it is in snow. #StandingStoneSunday

The ring in snow with sun in the horizob

Still a #workinprogress: my #painting of ancient sites in #Oxfordshire.
This afternoon's job is to complete the Rollrights section.

#handpainted #map #standingstones #megalithic #ancientstonebothering #StandingStoneSunday #stonecircles #neolithic #archaeology

Work in progress - a painting of ancient sites in Oxfordshire

I’m making great progress on my latest #painting: a hand painted #map of the main #megalithic sites in #Oxfordshire.

I have literally no idea why I didn’t paint this yeeeears ago.

#workinprogress #standingstones #ancientstonebothering #StandingStoneSunday #stonecircles #rollrightstones #waylandssmithy #uffingtonwhitehorse

Work in progress of a hand painted map of ancient Oxfordshire

@kottke A day late for #standingStoneSunday but super interesting, particularly as it pre-dates Stonehenge.

For today’s #StandingStoneSunday we are back at beautiful #Avebury with this wide shot from last November.

Wide view of several Avebury standing stones.

A #painting for youse to have a look at. "Poulnabrone I". Because I like big stones. This was the first of several times I painted Ireland's iconic portal tomb in County Clare's Burren. It used to hang in the US and in Australia but now hangs in a good home in County Derry. #art #StandingStoneSunday

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas panel. Stone feature of three standing stones with a large slim slab on top and another stone to the right, which along with the foreground is rendered in a very dark combination of blue and red and silhouetted against a sky which has a central rough oval porthole of light blue that is surrounded by a soft white rim and purple cloud that gets darker as it gets further from the hole. The horizon slopes a little down to the left. Signed bottom left in dark blue, Liam

#standingstonesunday ormsaig rock carvings Argyll (not a standing stone technically!)

Multiple cup and ring marks carved into the rock including two circles with 12 cup marks spaced equally between them

I just finished writing about 1300 words about the viking age runestone U 785 at Tillinge church west of Enköping. It is made of gray granite and is 1.7 meters tall and 0.8-1 meter wide. The inscription is inside a serpent with a head seen from the side. There is no cross on the stone, even though the inscription has a Christian prayer.

It has been raised after a man called Gudmund who died in Serkland. Possibly during the viking expedition by Ingvar the Far-Travelled or another expedition to the same area near the Caspian Sea. It is also possible that he worked as a varangian guard in the Byzantine empire.

The transliteration of the inscription is:
uifas-- ... : risa : s(t)in : þ(t)ino : ub : at : k-þmunt : bruþur : sin : han : uarþ : tuþr : a : srklant- kuþ halbi : ant : ans

Translated into English:
Vifast had the stone raised up after Gudmund, his brother. He died in Serkland. God help his soul.

#runestone #VikingAge #history #StandingStoneSunday #Viking

Photo of the runestone U 785 in front of a yellow wall.

Photof a yellow stone church surrounded by trees. There is a metal gate between white stone pillars in the foreground.

A closer photo of the church showing the runestone standing between two entrances.

Has anybody who follows #StandingStoneSunday heard anything from @thesweetcheat lately?Doesn’t seem to have been around for a few months now?

Since the last post was received with such enthusiasm, here's some understated standing stones of uncertain history a short walk from home. A tiny 46x36mm wood engraving.

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A very small (46x36mm) print of an irregular line of small leaning standing stones in long moorland grass, with a moorland ridge in the background, under a sky of fluffy white clouds.

#standingStoneSunday #silentSunday

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