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Mention us (
@megportal
) in your ancient site photo posts for a retweet/post if we like them - and we mostly do!
#StandingStoneSunday
(and non standing stone things too - anything older than about 1000AD/CE or 'pre-Columbian' in the Americas)
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The only known complete amber cup like it in the world, a very precious Bronze Age object. The amber probably comes from the Baltic Sea area. I had to share some photos from my first visit to the amazing
@BrightonMuseums
Elaine Evans Archaeology gallery.
#FindsFriday
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Free Book giveaway, new home wanted for 3x classic Scottish archaeology books: Celtic Scotland and Scotland’s Hidden History by Ian Armit, Picts by Anna Ritchie
To enter please like, follow us and retweet. I’ll choose a winner at random on the 6th. UK only due to weight.
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A thread to round up in English what we know so far on the appalling destruction of the Chemin de Montauban stone row. Here’s the Mr Bricolage construction site, as seen in 2023 on Google Street view. In the foreground are possible remains of megaliths. 🧵1/
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This towering stone above Todmorden in Yorkshire hides a mystery. It doesn’t seem to be ancient - not in its current position in any case. It appeared between 1912 and 1921 and no one really knows where it came from.
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An archaeological walk around Harthill Moor, Derbyshire taking in Nine Stones Close stone circle, two hillforts the Rowtor Rocks rock art and lots more, with David Ingham from CBA East Midlands Saturday 22nd July
#StandingStoneSunday
#FestivalofArchaeology
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It’s not often you get face to face with someone from 4500 years ago.
#MuseumMonday
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Look how closely the profile of this standing stone near Conwy tracks the contours of the hillock to its west. Significant, or coincidence?
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The atmospheric location of Castlerigg circle looking SSE down over Dale Bottom. Low and High Rigg middle foreground on the left and beyond is the Helvellyn massif. The dark green rounded lump at the end of the valley is great Howe at Legburthwaite.
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🚨We can exclusively reveal the location of the 4000 year old tomb on the Dingle Peninsula thought to be Altóir na Gréine (The Sun Altar), rediscovered by folklorist and local resident Billy Mag Fhloinn (pic) while taking part in an archaeological mapping project. Thread🧵More 1/
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This spectacular petroglyph site north of Bergen is under threat from a vast new quarry. Up to 200 petroglyphs on a single surface. Red deer, moose, reindeer, dogs, whales and porpoises - at least 1500 designs. Thought to be Mesolithic (5K to 4K BCE)
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This isolated lichen covered standing stone is approximately 2.4 metres tall, and 1/2 mile north of Cerrig Duon stone circle, with which it must have been linked in prehistoric times
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Why do so many churches have large sarsen stones incorporated into their walls or buried beneath them? Here’s yet another one, at Ogbourne St Andrew in Wiltshire. The church is built on a raised platform with sarsens used in the foundations and on the boundary. More 1/
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Three slender pillars in Co. Cork known as The Three Fingers rise dramatically against the sky. Up to 4.2m tall, evenly spaced and set into joints in the exposed rock surface. A fourth stone lies prostrate nearby, out of line.
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The layout of the Sanctuary, near Avebury is sadly now indicated by concrete blocks and posts. This is how it might have appeared during its final phase, imagined beautifully by Judith Dobie in artwork commissioned by English Heritage in the 1980s.
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This one is a bit special: Sewing Needle of The Virgin Mary by the church of Avaldsnes. Among the tallest standing stones in Norway, over 7m. An old myth says the world will end when the stone touches wall of the church!
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A beautiful example of a large bronze age burial cairn. Not round but a long cairn which are rare in Norway. The cairn is located on top of a large rocky hill with some pine forest and rock outcrops. From the top there is a beautiful view over the ocean and the cairn would have
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My talk in Brighton last night touched on the inspired research of Dr Anne Teather on Neolithic flint mines, particularly at Cissbury Ring. Thanks to some Twitter archaeology here is a fascinating thread on this by Anne herself from 2019: /1
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Looking for the most easterly stone circle in England threw up some intriguing sites which I’m going to feature in a little thread. Including terrible destruction and possibly a real life (Huffity Puffity) Ringstone Round.
@MatthewPope
#StandingStoneSunday
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Beckhampton Penning, the stone circle that never was. William Stukeley: “Upon the heath south of Silbury Hill was a very large oblong work like a long barrow, made only of stones pitch‘d in the ground, no tumulus.” Thread on this mysterious site for
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A wonderful snowy scene of the 6.6 metre tall menhir in the grounds of the Chateau Coadélan, Côtes-D'Armor. Happy
#StandingStoneSunday
, Christmas, Yule, belated Solstice etc everyone and thanks for following us!
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The three chambered cairns just outside Antequera (Andalucia) are rightly famous but this is the only one open to the public. Tholos de El Romeral, also known as Cueva de Romeral. Reminiscent of Maes Howe with its beautiful corbelling.
#AdoorableThursday
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🪨 🔍 Cwrt-y-Gollen or The Growing Stone, a 4m tall monolith on the modern A40 west of Abergavenney. Why am I posting this for
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and
#MuseumMonday
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The Heidentempel "pagan temple" is a rock in Tecklenburg (North Rhine Westphalia, Germany). It has been speculated that this site was used as a pagan sanctuary. Two niches have been cut into the rock wall. According to local legends, a sacrificial knife lay in the smaller niche,
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A Roman milepost, then early Medieval crosshead, and quite probably a reused standing stone originally. On Mawgan in Meneage village green, Lizard.
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In the 7th century CE, Asuka-mura village was the capital of Japan. The area around it contains many strange stone monuments most of which cannot be seen anywhere else. More 1/
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BREAKING: The most northerly and best preserved of the Thornborough Henges, referred to by stupid people as “the Stonehenge of the North” has been purchased by English Heritage for undisclosed sum of approaching 200k with the help of several large charity donations. Thread 🧵 1/
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Our member Kenneth writes “The hillfort at Trellsborg is one of the most well preserved and fascinating hillforts I have visited! The entrance is at the South and has a small stairway made of stone slabs”.
#HillFortsWednesday
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A very strange shaped standing stone, and another with a groove almost like a statue-menhir. Originally part of a larger monument, details to follow… More 1/
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A new rock art discovery in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania by our member Boeddel (with T Shirt). About 46 cup marks - some deep and very clearly visible, others are shallow and can only be seen if you look closely. More 1/2
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Two natural monoliths at the summit of Tryfan (3,010 ft above sea level) known locally as Sion a Siân (aka Adam and Eve). A fantastic series of photos by HarryTwenty capturing the summer solstice sunrise 2023
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So many wonderful photos in this latest album by the late Bruce Adams. Most have labels, this one doesn’t - can you help identify this stone circle near Aberdeen?
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Thousands of ancient human footprints preserved at White Sands National Park, New Mexico. One path shows a mother setting her baby down on the ground. Others were made by children. The footprints are about 15,000 years old.
#FossilFriday
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Three codes for that other new place to give away to
#StandingStoneSunday
followers. Please share and follow us for more. Photo of lovely 🩵sky 🔵and stones at Machrie Moor by international globetrotter and
@megportal
contributor Drew Parsons.
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Behind the Stones: on site talks at Castlerigg Stone Circle, for
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Here’s a strange one. In the former visitors' car park at Stonehenge there were three large round white blobs on the tarmac often overlooked by visitors to
#Stonehenge
. These marked the places where Mesolithic posts one stood in around 8000 BC.
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A rock art mystery. Chris Bond on Mastodon posted this rare vintage postcard (left) of a cup marked stone now lost to history, and another close by, also lost. I wonder if anyone in
#Perthshire
would like to have a look for them?
#ReliefWednesday
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The
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@TimPrevett
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Gösslundastenen - a Viking age Runestone near Linköping, Sweden. The runes read: uifir · risþi · stin · þai · iftiʀ · uisiti · buta · Which translates as: Véfríðr raised this stone in memory of Véseti, her husband.
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Beautifully rich colours of lichen on the menhirs of this alignement. Found just to the north of Chapelle de la Madeleine in Finistère
#StandingStoneSunday
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OK not that thick but I had to post this one. In a small Welsh village near Llangorse Lake
#thicktrunktuesday
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The amazing quartz outlier at Balquhain recumbent stone circle. Photographed by the late Bruce Adams. A preview of what's coming tomorrow for
#StandingStoneSunday
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Today’s stone is six feet tall, worn smooth and black by sheltering sheep. (see next) Lovely views east towards Birds rock (Craig yr Aderyn) and off towards Cader Idris. (mirroring the landscape?)
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The Kummerhy is an excavated round barrow in northern Germany. The standing stone is about 2 metres high, and has many cup marks. Photo by our much missed friend and contributor Holger Rix, who left this world in 2017.
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🎙️It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for, the toppermost standing stones in Britain according to our
@megportal
visitors and 📸 posters.
#5
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. With 🎁 competition winners too: 🧵/1
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A man who filmed himself damaging this cup marked stone near Pontypridd has been ordered to pay £4,400 compensation and given a four-month sentence, suspended for two years. More 1/
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Photos following the recent excavation at Gorteanish stone circle by archaeologists from University College Cork, more on our page 1/
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Concentric lichen rings on one of the Ring of Brodgar stones. These are not cup and ring carvings, just
#lichen
. Do the rings grow as the lichen consumes nutrients?
Photo sent in to
@megportal
by Peter Turner
#StandingStoneSunday
#lichensubscribe
#megalithic
#orkney
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Standing stones on the isle of
#Gigha
🧵This one has been moved and re-erected since prehistoric times but it's interesting that the top of the stone is angled at about the same angle as the setting
#moon
. Also amazing views of
#Jura
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#StandingStoneSunday
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It’s not every day you get asked to sign books at Waterstones so here’s a cheesy photo for posterity. Thanks Martin & team for a wonderful evening and to everyone who came along and asked such intelligent and interesting questions!
#BookologyThursday
#bookchatweekly
#TheOldStones
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Happy Summer Solstice everyone! Here's the sunrise at Boskednan captured by our member LinCook last year. Please send/tag us your photos and we'll retweet and put the best ones on our front page. More /1
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The lumps and bumps at Grime’s Graves are huge, a really impressive and rare landscape. I’m off to look for a puddingstone which marks the start of a supposed lost trade route from Grimes Graves to Stonehenge proposed by Dr Ernest Rudge. Can I find it? Read on… /1
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This stone is wonderfully located on the Mynydd Mallaen, with magnificent views across to the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons). The exposed location has taken its toll on the grey slate, causing splintering as can be seen from some angles.
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🎉 Special Celebratory Thread 🍻 with prizes 🏆 A rundown of the 🎧 Top 15 Standing Stones according to our
@megportal
visitors and contributors. Pt 1. Please share and give us a follow to find out more about our unique ancient site resources.
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Sunday 23rd July is 300 years to the day that William Stukeley visited the amazing stone circles of Stanton Drew. Calling
@megportal
@the_stone_club
and all like minded folk to join us there to mark the day.
#StandingStoneSunday
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Castell Mawr, Pembrokeshire, aerial photo by
@megportal
member Horatio. In parts the ditch of Castell Mawr iron age fort runs inside of the main bank. This caused some to suspect this might have been a henge later remodelled into a hillfort.
#HillfortsWednesday
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Tod Howe was probably a Bronze Age round barrow, now surmounted by a boundary stone. One of a line of barrows that run roughly alongside the ancient trod known as the Quakers Causeway. It now marks the boundary between Redcar & Cleveland to the north and Scarborough Districts to
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Terrible news about the unexpected death of cartoonist and all round legend Tony Husband. A few years back he drew a series of wonderful prehistoric themed cartoons for us, here is a selection. More 1/
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This stone walled chamber is just visible on the grass verge in front of the
#Auchrannie
leisure centre in
#Brodick
, Isle of
#Arran
. The
#souterrain
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🇫🇷 Win a copy 🇫🇷 of Brittany Stone Stories by Wendy Mewes
@brittanyexpert
Retweet and like to enter. Winner chosen at random on the 28th. A quick look at this fascinating book follows:
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It appears the developers were not made aware of the archaeological sites in the area. The report was from a previous development that was turned down in 2015. Although it seems incredulous to me they can’t have been aware of bloody great stones in that area! Pic: 2015 report /5
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A 6.3 metre (20 ft) tall granite menhir standing near the hamlet of Bayo, near Ploeuc-sur-Lie, Côtes-D'Armor, Bretagne. It is absolutely enormous so here are some visitors for scale.
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A small fortification on the summit of Rough Tor built between and including two rock outcrops. On the west two lines of stone walls can be traced, but on the east little remains of this Neolithic - Bronze Age enclosed settlement.
#HillfortsWednesday
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Much love for the Usborne ghost book I know but this is the one I went on to devour as a teenager. Not a bargain book, so still sought after. This and the J&C Bord books probably sowed the seeds for creating geographic guides
#Spooktober
#Booktober
#31DaysOfHalloween
#Halloween
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A few
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#quartz
veins
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The amazing view from Dinas hillfort in Ceredigion. Dated dated to 1600 BC, on a narrow ridge with very steep slopes on the west and east sides (seen here looking south)
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The remains of five iron age farms were found here at Wekerom, NL in archeological excavations from 1939 to 1941. In 1996 Celtic Fields were discovered and there are barrows nearby. This reconstruction is from 2011. More 1/
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A pair of impressive stones in a private burial ground in Co.Down (permission needed). Could be a stone alignment or last remnant of a vanished court tomb.
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Five Neolithic domus de janas (rock-cut tombs) located on a hill in a beautiful forest area in Sardinia. Would you like a look inside one?
#TombTuesday
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Ever wondered how you date a standing stone? This one fell down.
Excavation of the stone hole yielded organic material that was dated to 1090BCE +/-100years
#StandingStoneSunday
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The King, a squat but smooth gritstone outlier about 50m from the main Nine Ladies stone circle Stanton Moor. With C19th graffiti. Who was BILL STUMPS ? Read on…
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A fine standing stone about 5.5 feet high in a field close to the junction of Feidr Brenin and the A487 just west of Newport, Pembrokeshire. More 1/
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Northern Earth Issue 174 is out now • A 👻haunted stone in the remains of an old priory in Beeston, Norfolk • Sw
@stikas
, fylfots and triskeles • Can the mediaeval tales in the Mabinogion be traced in the modern landscape? • Boggarts in Corfu • Lots more besides More 1/
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Have a fantastic summer solstice everyone and let the only orange colour be in the sky. Let us know where you’re going and tag us
@megportal
in your ancient site photos. This is
#summersolstice
at Wet Withens, Derbyshire from 2021
#summersolstice2024
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Hjulgraven i Hjordkær - a unique late Neolithic Wheel-Grave found in a ploughed-down barrow in 1978 as part of a local development near Aabenraa in Denmark. More 1/
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Tim Webb has kindly allowed me to share his latest creation, the majesty that is Pothenge! All part of his campaign to raise awareness of dangerous road defects in his local area.
#StandingStoneSunday
#PlaymobilInfestation
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Lismore is a small Scottish island near Oban. This well-preserved dun (stone fort) is located on a rocky crag on the southern side. Oval in shape, it has walls up to 3.4m high on the western side with both inner and outer wall-faces visible. More 1/2
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Seaureaugh is one of Cornwall's lesser known standing stones. It was only officially recognised as a prehistoric in 2007. Our member Bladup feels it may be a last remaining stone from a stone circle and worth investigation, eg geophysical survey.
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We should give this a
#StandingStoneSunday
for good measure - we might finally hit 6000 followers today with luck - many thanks
@SaveStonehenge
Megalithic’s amazing megalithic map of Britain and Ireland showing locations of prehistoric stone circles and stone rows. Icons link to further information. Incredible resource.
@megportal
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Some late summer thoughts about the great antiquarian William Stukeley who visited Avebury 300 years ago this summer.
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A menhir with many cupmarks and carvings now in Museo Canario, Gran Canaria.
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I didn’t know about this lovely collection of hand-axes and stone tools in the World gallery, Horniman museum, London. Well worth a visit. No more info other than ‘from Denmark’. Upstairs on mezzanine if you want to find them.
#FindsFriday
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🚨Brighton Dec 7th ⏰don’t miss our last in person Old Stones talk for some months. Also Sussex’s lesser-known ancient stones with Serena Mitchell and David Bramwell
@drbramwell
and the new Monolith film. Please share 🙏 and follow
@megportal
#TheOldStones
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Happy Birthday to fellow standing stone aficionado Sir
@PaulMcCartney
81 today! Here he is in the early 70s at his Mull of Kintyre farm / stone High Park
#StandingStoneSunday
#HappyBirthdayPaulMcCartney
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The dolmen of Huesby was excavated from a round barrow not far from the village. The barrow had evidence of several generations of use and was surrounded by 3 rings of stones, re-created here.
#TombTuesday
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A pair of standing stones on Crousa Common, The Lizard, Cornwall. One of which has fallen. In the far hedge are stones on their sides which may have been part of a complex.
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Last for this
#StandingStoneSunday
, on the way home I saw a sign for Ramsdell and remembered “there’s a stone circle there!” So we went stone hunting. Fortunately it’s on a public footpath. More 1/
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Sarıkaya Roma Hamamı, Central Anatolia. Soon to reopen after a lot of restoration. The water inside the pool is 48degC (geothermal), one of only two surviving Roman pool structures with hot water, the other being Aquae Sulis in Bath of course.
#RomanSiteSaturday
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Herefordshire Beacon (aka British Camp) was constructed around the 4thC BCE and extended down the hill in the following centuries. It probably ceased to be occupied about 50 CE at the time of the Roman invasion.
#HillfortsWednesday
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This wheel-headed wayside cross is found in front of the church at Trevalga, Cornwall. It is thought to date from the 8th century.
#AncientSiteSunday
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A rarely seen standing stone behind a thicket deep in West Woods, likely source of the
#Stonehenge
sarsen stones.
We braved the brambles to explore with
@artefactual_KW
#FestivalofArchaeology
#StandingStoneSunday
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La Sergenté passage grave in Jersey. dates from approx 4500 BCE and is the only corbelled passage grave known from the Channel Islands, and possibly the earliest dolmen on the island. The main chamber is about 12 feet across, it was excavated in 1923. More 1/
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Midsummer sunset at Kingston Russell stone circle, Dorset. 18 sarsen or conglomerate stones, 30m diameter. It is assumed the stones have fallen, or moved, since recumbent circles are not usually found in this part of the country.
#StandingStoneSunday
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Stenstugan (Stone Cottage) dolmen surrounded by a barrow in Halland, Sweden. The chamber consists of three stones covered by a heavy capstone and surrounded by a circle of slabs set on edge.
#TombTuesday
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This beautiful building on Holy Island, Ynys Môn/Anglesey was built in 1866 when Ffynnon y Wrach well was used as a water supply. But the well itself has a much longer history. It’s also known as the Witches Well or Fairies Well.
#Folklore
#Faustianfriday
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On a hilltop in Jordan are the remnants of a small Roman fort. This hilltop itself is surrounded by a thick, low wall of basalt rocks. The hilltop provides an incredible near 360-degree view of the surrounding desert.
#RomanSiteSaturday
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Kleine Scheuer, a cave used by humans in the Upper Paleolithic, and one of many inside the Rosenstein mountain. Part of an archaeo hiking trail leading to 11 archaeological sites on the mountain. More 1/
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The Bellows Falls
#Petroglyphs
in Vermont - two clusters of rock art carved into massive, steeply angled granite bedrock. They depict life sized, oval or round "heads" with "eyes" and "mouths" and some have horns or pronged projections. More 1/
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Historic England have just released their collection of USAAF aerial photos online. Here's the ancient landscape around Stonehenge taken on Christmas Eve 1943. The circle is to the top right. Source: Historic England USAAF Archive. More 1/
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Here’s a Carnac tourist map I had which shows how close Montauban (mid right) is to some of the visible megalithic alignments. There may well be more buried that we don’t know about
A thread to round up in English what we know so far on the appalling destruction of the Chemin de Montauban stone row. Here’s the Mr Bricolage construction site, as seen in 2023 on Google Street view. In the foreground are possible remains of megaliths. 🧵1/
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