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Neolithic ‘Devil’s Arrow’ stones moved 11 miles across Yorkshire #megalithic #neolithic #menhirs #StandingStones https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1143126

It took longer than I thought, perhaps I had lost that wibbly wobbly stuff for some days. 😂
But now I published my thoughts about the weird feelings of #time when we feel overwhelmed. And how to get our timey-wimey stuff back:
https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/6a7c6585-3b32-4168-ba32-ef0e3a7c9364?utm_campaign=steady_sharing_button

Yes, we can debate now if wolves invented #StandingStones by marking and how you find your #tree. 😁

#timeFlies #DrWho #astronomy #culturalHeritage #naturelovers #farming #gardening #seasons #wellbeing #reconnectingWithNature #community #trees

The menhir or standing stone at Merrivale on Dartmoor, Devon. Photo taken on 31 August 2004.

#Merrivale #Dartmoor #Menhirs #StoneCircles #StandingStones #StandingStoneSunday

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

#1373 Ian McNeil Cooke - Standing Stones of the Land's End: An Enquiry Into Their Function. Men-an-Tol Studio, Penzance, 1998, 1st edition.

#IanCooke #MenAnTolStudio #Cornwall #Penwith #Menhirs #StandingStones #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay

New sketch | Moorland stones - Colour Sketch | small one off part of my sketch-a-day project.
Posting every day since 2013

Sketches from only £39.00

👉🏽👉🏽 https://tinyfi.me/KLqd

#2026 #ArtPrint #Colour #drawing #FineArt #gicleé #Hand-drawn #HomeDecor #Horizon #illustration #Moorland #Prehistoric #print #Scene #SeanBriggsArt #sketch #StandingStones #WallArt #Walldecor

#1364 Cheryl Straffon (ed) - Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites in Cornwall - No 48, Summer 2002. Meyn Mamvro, St Just.

#CherylStraffon #MeynMamvro #EarthMysteries #Archaeology #Cornwall #Kernow #StandingStones #TheLizard #Scilly #BookOfTheDay

The Avenue (leading to) Avebury, Wiltshire
#photography #Avenue #StandingStones #sheep #Avebury #Wlitshire

Les pierres levées (orimbato) de Madagascar notamment très présentes sur les hauts plateaux (en région Merina qui entoure la capitale), étaient généralement des symboles érigés en pleine campagne entre les villages pour marquer les grandes décisions des anciens rois et sceller leur mémoire. L'abolition de la monarchie vit l'identité de ces rois et la nature de ces décisions tomber malgré tout dans l'oubli pour la plupart (David Graeber, Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar)
Mais les pierres subsistent.

#stones #sacredstones #standingstones #orimbato #madagascar #imerina #hova #graeber #decolonialhistory #petractivism #pierre #pencil #drawing #illustration

Part of the Ring of Brodgar, #Orkney.
It must have been raining. It was about to become a heavy rainstorm and gale.

#StandingStones #Neolithic #LandscapePhotography #TemporaryPictures

Happy Monday, everyone 😊

I posted a new piece on my #blog ... about encounters with the local wildlife (a bit of a change from my usual stuff about #StandingStones and #HolyWells 😁)

It starts like this ...

"I don't really accept that one magpie foretells sorrow, but I'll happily anticipate joy when I see two."

Big thanks to @Devonkiwi and @Glamazon for the photos 💗

#nature #wildlife #spiritanimals #NomadicHearts

https://2ruth.blog/2026/07/12/wild-meetings/

I present to you the Bronze Age standing stone, known as Queen's Stone.

Excavated in 1926 by Alfred Watkins (of Ley Lines fame), twice as much lies buried beneath the ground.

It sits alone in a huge bend of the River Wye, near Symonds Yat.

And the strangest thing about it? There appears to be no surviving folklore about this remarkable stone 🤷🏼‍♀️

#standingstones #folklore #ukcountryside #bronzeage #todaysadventure

Another day, another view of Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire.

Older than Stonehenge, this one (I didn't know that until the other day!) dating from around 3700-2700 BC

#standingstones #stonebothering #neolithic #ukcountryside

I know it's not #StandingStoneSunday yet, but I'm really excited that this arrived today ... I was originally after Julian Cope's 'The Modern Antiquarian' but at £275 that was not an option. This one, however, is most excellent and a fraction of the price 💙

#stonecircles #standingstones #sacredplaces #AncientPlaces #sacredsites #history #archeology

Bronze age stone circle at Doll Tor, Stanton Moor, Derbyshire. This was a little off the beaten track, but all the more special for it

#stonecircles #standingstones #sacredsites #Derbyshire #photography

Happy Monday, everyone!

I've got a new piece of writing on my blog, if you're interested 😊

"Somewhere between remembrance and forgetting, we can meet, we can witness each other, me and these stones, these wells. Something is alive here, but it won't always be, and just possibly, it shouldn't."

https://2ruth.blog/2026/06/14/half-forgotten-places/

#standingstones #springsandwells #sacredsites #remembranceandforgetting
#photography #creativenonfiction #writing #NomadicHearts

"It’s an ancient kinship, this connection I feel to rocks and stones. They stand witness to repeated human passage, waypoints in the landscape, marked across millennia."

New post on my blog 😁

#PlaceWriting #LandscapeHistory #StandingStones #StoneCircles #AncientSites #NomadicHearts #photography #creativenonfiction

https://2ruth.blog/2026/06/02/an-ancient-kinship/

#1298 Cheryl Straffon (ed) - Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites in Cornwall - No 46, Autumn 2001. Meyn Mamvro, St Just.

#CherylStraffon #MeynMamvro #EarthMysteries #Archaeology #Cornwall #Kernow #StandingStones #Scilly #Truro #BookOfTheDay

The Maen Cadoar, thought to be a Christianised menhir, in the churchyard at Camborne in Cornwall. Photo taken on 21 August 2004.

#Camborne #StandingStoneSunday #Menhirs #AncientCrosses #Cornwall #StandingStones

#1289 Ian Edelman - Discovering Avebury. Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, 1995, Shire Discovery No 280, 1st edition, 6th impression.

#IanEdelman #ShirePublications #Avebury #StandingStones #Megaliths #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay

#StandingStoneSunday
#standingstones
#megaliths

Men gurta or St Breock downs monolith, the tallest stone in Cornwall, a very old photo taken 20 plus years ago on crappy colour film, converted to black and white a Couple of days go. #standingstonesunday #standingstones #photography

The sad fate of an ancient Fife standing stone ... https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/barn-storm/ #Fife #Scotland #Prehistory #AncientHistory #History #Archaeology #StandingStones #Megaliths

#1282 Brian Byng - Dartmoor's Mysterious Megaliths. Baron Jay Ltd., Plymouth, 1979, 1st edition, reprint. Printed by P.D.S. Printers, Plymouth.

#BrianByng #Dartmoor #Devon #Megaliths #Archaeology #BaronJayLtd #StandingStones #BookOfTheDay