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  1. Pierre de Fécondité (Camlez): A 1.5m tall stele near Chapelle Saint Nicolas, Bretagne. Traditionally women would rub their belly against the stone in the hope of becoming pregnant, and it could reputedly cure young children with disabilities. #StandingStoneSunday #Bretagne #stele #IronAge #fertility #standingstone #Brittany #France 📷 peulven More: megalithic.co.uk/article.php?s

  2. Something a bit different - using 3D Gaussian Splats for creating art.

    This started out as a Pictish standing stone up around Loch Kinord, Aberdeenshire. I took a video walking around it. Made a Gaussian Splat at some length. Found an interesting view where the splat artefacts look like a view through the surrounding tree foliage. Finished the tone processing in Luminar Neo.

    #art #photography #scotland #3d #gaussiansplat #aberdeenshire #standingstone #lochkinord

  3. The Gogar Stone at Easter Norton Farm, just outside the west of Edinburgh. Hidden from view beyond the stone in the first image lies Edinburgh airport.

    The stone is quite small, probably no more than about 3 feet high and about 18" across at its widest point.

    📷 by me, 22 September 2025.

    #StandingStoneSunday #GogarStone #StandingStone #Edinburgh

  4. The Gogar Stone at Easter Norton Farm, just outside the west of Edinburgh. Hidden from view beyond the stone in the first image lies Edinburgh airport.

    The stone is quite small, probably no more than about 3 feet high and about 18" across at its widest point.

    📷 by me, 22 September 2025.

    #StandingStoneSunday #GogarStone #StandingStone #Edinburgh

  5. The Gogar Stone at Easter Norton Farm, just outside the west of Edinburgh. Hidden from view beyond the stone in the first image lies Edinburgh airport.

    The stone is quite small, probably no more than about 3 feet high and about 18" across at its widest point.

    📷 by me, 22 September 2025.

    #StandingStoneSunday #GogarStone #StandingStone #Edinburgh

  6. The Gogar Stone at Easter Norton Farm, just outside the west of Edinburgh. Hidden from view beyond the stone in the first image lies Edinburgh airport.

    The stone is quite small, probably no more than about 3 feet high and about 18" across at its widest point.

    📷 by me, 22 September 2025.

    #StandingStoneSunday #GogarStone #StandingStone #Edinburgh

  7. The Gogar Stone at Easter Norton Farm, just outside the west of Edinburgh. Hidden from view beyond the stone in the first image lies Edinburgh airport.

    The stone is quite small, probably no more than about 3 feet high and about 18" across at its widest point.

    📷 by me, 22 September 2025.

    #StandingStoneSunday #GogarStone #StandingStone #Edinburgh

  8. CW: Eye contact under the cut

    Looking back at some old photos. This is me at Long Meg--about twenty years ago! That spiral, tho...#Megalithic #StandingStones #StoneCircle #MegalithicMonday #StandingStone

  9. I didn't know #StandingStoneSunday was a thing, but since it's Sunday and I saw some standing stones today, it's perfect timing !

    I was walking up to Leith Hill (Surrey, UK) when I saw a field with (at least) 3 large standing stones. The field was private so I couldn't walk up to the stones themselves.

    I have no idea when these stones date from - if anyone has any ideas, let me know I'm curious !

    #Surrey #StandingStone #leithhill

  10. I didn't know #StandingStoneSunday was a thing, but since it's Sunday and I saw some standing stones today, it's perfect timing !

    I was walking up to Leith Hill (Surrey, UK) when I saw a field with (at least) 3 large standing stones. The field was private so I couldn't walk up to the stones themselves.

    I have no idea when these stones date from - if anyone has any ideas, let me know I'm curious !

    #Surrey #StandingStone #leithhill

  11. I didn't know #StandingStoneSunday was a thing, but since it's Sunday and I saw some standing stones today, it's perfect timing !

    I was walking up to Leith Hill (Surrey, UK) when I saw a field with (at least) 3 large standing stones. The field was private so I couldn't walk up to the stones themselves.

    I have no idea when these stones date from - if anyone has any ideas, let me know I'm curious !

    #Surrey #StandingStone #leithhill

  12. I didn't know #StandingStoneSunday was a thing, but since it's Sunday and I saw some standing stones today, it's perfect timing !

    I was walking up to Leith Hill (Surrey, UK) when I saw a field with (at least) 3 large standing stones. The field was private so I couldn't walk up to the stones themselves.

    I have no idea when these stones date from - if anyone has any ideas, let me know I'm curious !

    #Surrey #StandingStone #leithhill

  13. I didn't know #StandingStoneSunday was a thing, but since it's Sunday and I saw some standing stones today, it's perfect timing !

    I was walking up to Leith Hill (Surrey, UK) when I saw a field with (at least) 3 large standing stones. The field was private so I couldn't walk up to the stones themselves.

    I have no idea when these stones date from - if anyone has any ideas, let me know I'm curious !

    #Surrey #StandingStone #leithhill

  14. Can anyone recommend a stone circle, barrow or standing stone to visit, with kids, between #Edinburgh , #Glasgow and the #LochNess area in #Scotland ?

    #standingstone #stonecircle #barrow

  15. The Duirinish Stone was NOT erected thousands of years ago. Set in a concrete base, it stands approximately 5m high and was erected by hand. That is to say it was pulled up the hill and set in place by human power. See the ALT for more information…

    A view from the ’Two Churches Walk.near Dunvegan. Healaval Mhor* is the flat topped hill in the distance.
    * sometimes called MacLeod’s Table North

    #standingstone #SpringEquinox #isleofskye #weather #walking

  16. A little bit of a mystery for #StandingStoneSunday

    We had a sunny visit to see John Bell's Stone in the grounds of Castle Fraser, Aberdeenshire today. A tall standing stone said to be erected as a memorial in 1617. But is that just when the top was added to a prehistoric standing stone? Balgorkar stone circle is just 650m away and this stone really would not be out of place as a flanker there.

    #StandingStone

  17. Morning folks, to celebrate losing an hour of my #StandingStoneSunday, here's Standard Street or Great Oak Road standing stone, near the lovely town of Crickhowell in South Wales. Standing over 6 feet tall, it's marked by the OS as a boundary stone but must surely be Bronze Age.

    This visit April 2012.

    #Wales #StandingStone #Crickhowell

  18. Morning folks, to celebrate losing an hour of my #StandingStoneSunday, here's Standard Street or Great Oak Road standing stone, near the lovely town of Crickhowell in South Wales. Standing over 6 feet tall, it's marked by the OS as a boundary stone but must surely be Bronze Age.

    This visit April 2012.

    #Wales #StandingStone #Crickhowell

  19. Morning folks, to celebrate losing an hour of my #StandingStoneSunday, here's Standard Street or Great Oak Road standing stone, near the lovely town of Crickhowell in South Wales. Standing over 6 feet tall, it's marked by the OS as a boundary stone but must surely be Bronze Age.

    This visit April 2012.

    #Wales #StandingStone #Crickhowell

  20. Morning folks, to celebrate losing an hour of my #StandingStoneSunday, here's Standard Street or Great Oak Road standing stone, near the lovely town of Crickhowell in South Wales. Standing over 6 feet tall, it's marked by the OS as a boundary stone but must surely be Bronze Age.

    This visit April 2012.

    #Wales #StandingStone #Crickhowell

  21. Morning folks, to celebrate losing an hour of my #StandingStoneSunday, here's Standard Street or Great Oak Road standing stone, near the lovely town of Crickhowell in South Wales. Standing over 6 feet tall, it's marked by the OS as a boundary stone but must surely be Bronze Age.

    This visit April 2012.

    #Wales #StandingStone #Crickhowell

  22. Carreg y Big near Llynau Cregennan, between Cader Idris and the Afon Mawddach for today's #StandingStoneSunday

    This area is rich with stones, cairns and hillforts, as well as being an incredibly beautiful landscape.

    This visit March 2012. Portrait, may need a click.

    #Gwynedd #CaderIdris #StandingStone

  23. Revisiting the memorial stone of the ‘last woman burned as a witch’ in Scotland in film and archival photos. (‘Janet Horne’ probably never existed but her myth persists because there were so many like her whose lives and deaths went unrecorded.)#AshesAndStones #ScottishWitches #Scotland #ScottishHighlands #FolkHorror #FeministHorror #WomenInHorror #SheWill #JanetHorne #ModernAntiquarian #Witch
    #StandingStone #Menhir #Histodons

    allysonshaw.com/2025/02/12/mem

  24. Revisiting the memorial stone of the ‘last woman burned as a witch’ in Scotland in film and archival photos. (‘Janet Horne’ probably never existed but her myth persists because there were so many like her whose lives and deaths went unrecorded.)#AshesAndStones #ScottishWitches #Scotland #ScottishHighlands #FolkHorror #FeministHorror #WomenInHorror #SheWill #JanetHorne #ModernAntiquarian #Witch
    #StandingStone #Menhir #Histodons

    allysonshaw.com/2025/02/12/mem

  25. Revisiting the memorial stone of the ‘last woman burned as a witch’ in Scotland in film and archival photos. (‘Janet Horne’ probably never existed but her myth persists because there were so many like her whose lives and deaths went unrecorded.)#AshesAndStones #ScottishWitches #Scotland #ScottishHighlands #FolkHorror #FeministHorror #WomenInHorror #SheWill #JanetHorne #ModernAntiquarian #Witch
    #StandingStone #Menhir #Histodons

    allysonshaw.com/2025/02/12/mem

  26. Revisiting the memorial stone of the ‘last woman burned as a witch’ in Scotland in film and archival photos. (‘Janet Horne’ probably never existed but her myth persists because there were so many like her whose lives and deaths went unrecorded.)#AshesAndStones #ScottishWitches #Scotland #ScottishHighlands #FolkHorror #FeministHorror #WomenInHorror #SheWill #JanetHorne #ModernAntiquarian #Witch
    #StandingStone #Menhir #Histodons

    allysonshaw.com/2025/02/12/mem

  27. Revisiting the memorial stone of the ‘last woman burned as a witch’ in Scotland in film and archival photos. (‘Janet Horne’ probably never existed but her myth persists because there were so many like her whose lives and deaths went unrecorded.)#AshesAndStones #ScottishWitches #Scotland #ScottishHighlands #FolkHorror #FeministHorror #WomenInHorror #SheWill #JanetHorne #ModernAntiquarian #Witch
    #StandingStone #Menhir #Histodons

    allysonshaw.com/2025/02/12/mem

  28. Urban prehistory for today's #StandingStoneSunday offering. Maen Llwyd now stands in a quiet cul-de-sac in a Machynlleth housing estate. It's a chunky stone, possibly volcanic.

    This visit September 2011 in pouring rain.

    #StandingStone #UrbanPrehistory #Machynlleth

  29. A rainy, windy day outside, and a rainy day offering for today's #StandingStoneSunday

    Waun Fach standing stone, a chunky, tapering stone in a fairly low-lying area not far from the coast near the village of Llanegryn, in the Dysynni valley, Gwynedd.

    Visited in the rain, September 2011. Portrait, may need a click.

    #StandingStone #GogleddCymru #Tywyn

  30. A rainy, windy day outside, and a rainy day offering for today's #StandingStoneSunday

    Waun Fach standing stone, a chunky, tapering stone in a fairly low-lying area not far from the coast near the village of Llanegryn, in the Dysynni valley, Gwynedd.

    Visited in the rain, September 2011. Portrait, may need a click.

    #StandingStone #GogleddCymru #Tywyn

  31. A rainy, windy day outside, and a rainy day offering for today's #StandingStoneSunday

    Waun Fach standing stone, a chunky, tapering stone in a fairly low-lying area not far from the coast near the village of Llanegryn, in the Dysynni valley, Gwynedd.

    Visited in the rain, September 2011. Portrait, may need a click.

    #StandingStone #GogleddCymru #Tywyn

  32. A rainy, windy day outside, and a rainy day offering for today's #StandingStoneSunday

    Waun Fach standing stone, a chunky, tapering stone in a fairly low-lying area not far from the coast near the village of Llanegryn, in the Dysynni valley, Gwynedd.

    Visited in the rain, September 2011. Portrait, may need a click.

    #StandingStone #GogleddCymru #Tywyn