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Oops… I’m only two days late for #StandingStoneSunday Apologies, we were putting up the Christmas tree and didn’t notice the time. Here’s a shot from my early November visit to sunny #Avebury in #Wiltshire. Human figure shows the height of that standing stone. A beautiful visit on a beautiful day. And after our walk around, Lorne, old school friend, and I had a lovely Sunday roast in the Red Lion pub in the village. Best book ahead if you fancy lunch there. #neolithic #stonecircles

Very tall standing stone at Avebury. Sunny blue sky.

#1121 Aubrey Burl - Megalithic Brittany: A Guide to over 350 Ancient Sites and Monuments. Thames & Hudson, London, 1985, 1st edition.

#AubreyBurl #ThamesAndHudson #Breizh #Brittany #Megaliths #StandingStones #StandingStoneSunday #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of Megalithic Brittany: A Guide to over 350 Ancient Sites and Monuments by Aubrey Burl, with title in black on a pale yellow panel and a full cover colour photo, taken by Burl, of the northern stone row of the Alignements de Lagatjar near Camaret-sur-Mer in Finistère, seen from the south-south-east.

Pencraig Brae, #eastlothian
#standingStoneSunday

A wheat field with a tall standing stone. A distant isolated hill beyond (North Berwick Law)

It's here! It's the perfect Christmas present.
Take a look at our story book that you can colour in the pages.
#stonebothering #storytime #colouringbook #standingstones #StandingStoneSunday #Christmas
Take a look here.

https://mybook.to/ancientworld

So, if you were in Southern Scotland or Penwith or Wiltshire and you found this arrangement of stones incorporated into a stone wall composed mainly of quartzite, what would you think? I actually spotted it on a hilltop in North Wales. #StandingStoneSunday

#StandingStoneSunday with a gorgeous stone row at Lakehead Hill, just north of Bellever Tor, Dartmoor

While the Neolithic & Bronze age sites on Dartmoor are exceptional, there's a lack of Hillforts & Iron Age occupation

We explore it in the new episode >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvmuajhU1ns

Treverven Menhir at Treverven near St Buryan in Cornwall, viewed from the south-east and photographed on 24 April 2004.

#Treverven #Menhirs #Megaliths #Cornwall #StandingStones #StandingStoneSunday

A colour photograph of Treverven Menhir near St Buryan in West Penwith, Cornwall. At just under 2m tall it's not the most impressive looking stone, but does have an interesting shape, with a large hollow on the opposite side. The field it sits in is large and full of short grass. The hedge and a line of gorse short trees can be seen in the middle distance. The sky is blue and cloudless. The ground immediately surrounding the menhir is bare earth; worn away by livestock using the stone as a rubbing post.

Once thought to be a 'Druid temple', Machuim appears to sit on top of an earlier cairn. Four massive stones still standing ‘overlooking’ Loch Tay with two large fallen, & small boulders in the circle. #StandingStoneSunday

More on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1117

Four massive stones still standing ‘overlooking’ Loch Tay with two large fallen, & small boulders in the circle.

The Carnassarie Standing Stones, situated near Carnassarie Castle in Argyll. A large Bronze Age cairn lies some 150 metres to the north of the stones. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Argyll

As the Winter Solstice approaches, look out for my article on The Wren's Egg in Issue 2 of Ancient Times, by Stone Club https://stoneclub.rocks/

#StandingStoneSunday #History #Blackandwhitephotography

Black and white photo of a magazine called 'Ancient Times' with a standing stone on the cover. Issue 2 Winter 25, on the surface of a rock.

The Ring of Brodgar is a huge stone circle on Orkney, dating from 2500-2000 BC. It is thought to have been an important ceremonial site. This UNESCO World Heritage site sits on the Ness of Brodgar, a strip of land between two lochs.
Photo: Going the Whole Hogg. #StandingStoneSunday

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a page from a book about legendary history and folklore of stonehenge.
something about some stones that the devil dropped on one of the Deverills etc.
shame i ain't got no photos.

#StandingStoneSunday A short animated film by Joseph Brett. Careful where you choose to have a picnic... 🪨 vimeo.com/821964309

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For #standingStoneSunday here's one of Portugal's few stone circles. Vale Maria do Meio was only found about thirty years ago and it's a fabulous site with a rich history! Learn more in my video visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtSUNg-eZ0

A photograph showing menhirs (standing stones) underneath a cork oak tree in Portugal's Alentejo: the cromlech of Vale Maria do Meio

There's a very good pun hidden away in a screenshot in this article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-36024009

"Making a mountain out of a terminal moraine".

#StandingStoneSunday #neolithic #megalithic

#standingStoneSunday #silentSunday

A grainy 35mm colour film photo of the Men-an-Tol, in penwith in Cornwall. It consists of a donut-shaped holed stone in the centre, large enough for someone to crawl through the middle of, and two small upright stones in front & behind the holed stone, forming a line. It lives on a moor which is green and brown in autumn, and the sky is grey and uniformly cloudy.

A #SilentSunday at Scorhill.

#Photography #StandingStoneSunday #Landscape #Dartmoor

Part of an ancient stone circle, set in wild moorland.

The Avenue at Avebury, early morning, September 2006. #StandingStoneSunday #Neolithic #megalith #Wiltshire

Drizzlecombe, Dartmoor

Within this complex of Bronze Age monuments (see map), there are three principal stone rows. The one shown below is the only double stone row and typically ends with an impressive menhir. Overlooking these monuments is a small village of enclosures and hut circles.

Photo: my own
Map: Smalljim CC BY-SA 3.0

#StandingStoneSunday #Dartmoor #Devon

A moorland scene with close-cropped green grass and tussocks either side of a double stone row. Many of the stones appear to be out of alignment and/or toppled, owing to erosion and grazing animals. The stones stretch into the distance, terminated by a very tall single standing stone.
In the background is a hillside covered mainly in darker vegetation with patches of tussocky grass, with a few trees on the horizon. The sky is covered in a blanket of white clouds.

A map showing the archaeology of Drizzlecombe Bronze Age complex, which lies on a low hill between Drizzle Combe (a small brook) and the River Plym. To the north-east enclosures and hut circles are marked at a higher elevation than the stone rows to the south-west. Three stone rows are shown, running downhill to terminal menhirs. One of them, furthest south-west, is the double stone row shown in the posted image. The plan also shows the location of cairns and a kist.

The Aiggin Stone, close to Blackstone Edge. A medieval waymarker, on a packhorse route, overlaying a Roman road, crossing the Pennines. It was once much taller, but has been diminished by numerous falls.
#StandingStoneSunday #History #Blackandwhitephotography

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