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Not quite #StandingStoneSunday but it’s a broad church, so here are a couple of photographs of the tumulus de Colombiers-sur-Seulles, the oldest surviving stone monument in the Calvados region of Normandy. It dates from about 4,000 BCE. The whole site has a very tranquil setting.
The first image shows the entrance into the funerary chamber which is about 2.5 metres wide and has 6 remaining orthostats or upright stones. Charred and broken bones were found in this chamber on excavation.
The second image is a wider shot showing the whole of the long barrow itself, which is impressive at about 60 metres in length, and about 18 metres wide at the eastern end and about 9 metres wide at the western end, nearest the foreground of the photograph. At this western end, there are two "blocking" stones which might suggest another chamber here, with its entrance here.
(📷 by me on 23 August 2026)
#Tumulus #LongBarrow #StandingStones #Megalithic #ColombiersSurSeulles #Calvados #Normandy #Normandie
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Stonehenge - modelling the sarsen stone transport route [pdf 13pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tim-Daw/publication/413532460_Modelling_the_sarsen_transport_route_West_Woods_to_Stonehenge_A_blind_least-cost_analysis_over_layered_open_data/links/6a89ff944c551d12697f3230/Modelling-the-sarsen-transport-route-West-Woods-to-Stonehenge-A-blind-least-cost-analysis-over-layered-open-data.pdf
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Hawley's Stonehenge Reports Reappraised #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.academia.edu/171340889/Hawleys_Stonehenge_Reports_Reappraised
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Megalithic Societies : Old Questions, New Narratives [pdf 301pp] #megalithic #menhirs #dolmens #RockArt https://www.academia.edu/166926171/Announcement_of_up_and_coming_volume_Megalithic_Societies
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Rediscovered megalithic engravings in Slovakia: 3D reconstruction and comparative analysis of a forgotten Neolithic site [html, pdf 9pp] #megalithic #menhirs #RockArt https://doi.org/10.1038/s40494-026-02399-6
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Stonehenge story of the week…
Geochemical Authentication of a Rediscovered Victorian Thin Section of the Altar stone [html, pdf 8pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic #menhirs https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X26000544
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Carnac : Multi-Method Geophysical Surveys Between and Around the Kerlescan and the Manio Megalithic Alignments [html, pdf 19pp] #megalithic #neolithic #menhirs #StandingStones https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.70036
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Megalithic Origins: the emergence of monumentality in Neolithic Western Europe - project 'to clarify whether monumentality arose independently in different regions' #megalithic #neolithic #menhirs https://megaorigins.webspace.durham.ac.uk/
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For #StandingStoneSunday we have a visit to #Menhir Central, #Carnac in #Brittany and the huge alignments.
#Breizh #Menhirs #Megaliths #Megalithic #Prehistoric #Photography #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #BWPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Toned