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#SummerSolstice greetings to you all.
Here's a photograph I took 10 years ago to the day, of the Merry Maidens stone circle near St Buryan in Cornwall, when Matthew Shaw and I went on a research trip to West Penwith to do some recordings for our project Fougou.
Such a magical place: the stones look up, expectantly, and sing to the skies.
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#SummerSolstice greetings to you all.
Here's a photograph I took 10 years ago to the day, of the Merry Maidens stone circle near St Buryan in Cornwall, when Matthew Shaw and I went on a research trip to West Penwith to do some recordings for our project Fougou.
Such a magical place: the stones look up, expectantly, and sing to the skies.
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I'd like to with everyone a Blessed Litha!
The Holly King rises and the Oak King steps back, now we turn towards winter.
I visited the Rollright Stones on Friday and setup a small altar, it's becoming a little tradition for me. However you choose to celebrate it, may your celebration be peaceful and joyous!
#litha #solstice #summersolstice #pagan #paganism #rollrightstones #stonecircle #oakking #hollyking #wheeloftheyear
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I'd like to with everyone a Blessed Litha!
The Holly King rises and the Oak King steps back, now we turn towards winter.
I visited the Rollright Stones on Friday and setup a small altar, it's becoming a little tradition for me. However you choose to celebrate it, may your celebration be peaceful and joyous!
#litha #solstice #summersolstice #pagan #paganism #rollrightstones #stonecircle #oakking #hollyking #wheeloftheyear
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Is Buxton Missing a Stone Circle?
If you spend any amount of time exploring the prehistoric landscapes of the Peak District, a curious question begins to emerge.
Why does Buxton appear to be missing a stone circle?
Pull up a chair, let’s have a chat…
The area surrounding the spa town is rich in prehistoric archaeology. A short journey in almost any direction reveals evidence of ancient activity. Arbor Low, often called the Stonehenge of the North, lies to the east. The Bull Ring henge at Dove Holes is one of the finest surviving Neolithic earthworks in Derbyshire. Doll Tor, the Nine Ladies, the Grey Ladies and numerous burial mounds, cairns and standing stones dot the wider landscape.Yet Buxton itself appears to sit within a curious gap.
At first glance this may not seem particularly unusual. Not every settlement requires a stone circle. Ancient communities were shaped by geography, water sources, trade routes, ritual practices and social changes that are often difficult to reconstruct thousands of years later. Nevertheless, Buxton occupies a position that might be expected to attract prehistoric activity.
Long before the Romans arrived and dedicated the thermal waters to the goddess Arnemetia, the springs would almost certainly have been known to local communities. Across Britain, natural springs and unusual water sources frequently became places of ritual significance. Water was life. Water was mystery. Water emerged from beneath the earth carrying both practical and spiritual importance.The question therefore becomes whether the area around modern Buxton hosted prehistoric ceremonial activity that has since been lost, obscured or destroyed.
There is certainly evidence that people were present. The Peak District contains abundant traces of Neolithic and Bronze Age occupation. Routeways crossed the uplands. Burial monuments crowned prominent hills. Ceremonial sites were constructed across the limestone landscapes. Communities farmed, traded and buried their dead here long before recorded history.
The apparent absence of a surviving stone circle in Buxton may therefore reflect modern circumstances rather than prehistoric reality.
Urban development has transformed the landscape. Roman occupation altered the area significantly. Centuries of building, quarrying, agriculture and road construction have erased countless archaeological features across Britain. Some monuments survive because they stood in remote fields. Others vanished beneath towns and cities before antiquarians had the opportunity to record them.
Could Buxton once have possessed a ceremonial site now lost beneath streets, gardens or buildings?
It is not an impossible suggestion.
Alternatively, perhaps the sacred focus of the area was never a stone circle at all. Archaeologists have increasingly recognised that prehistoric ritual landscapes were diverse. Henges, timber circles, standing stones, springs, caves and burial monuments could all fulfil ceremonial functions. The modern tendency to focus on stone circles sometimes obscures the wider range of sacred places used by ancient communities.
This raises another intriguing possibility. Perhaps Buxton’s thermal waters were themselves the focus of ritual attention long before the arrival of the Romans. If so, the absence of a stone circle may not represent a missing monument but a different form of sacred landscape altogether.
As with so many mysteries of prehistory, certainty remains elusive. There is currently no clear evidence for a lost stone circle beneath Buxton. Yet the question remains an interesting one. In a county rich with prehistoric monuments, a town built around extraordinary natural springs occupies a landscape that seems surprisingly quiet.
Or perhaps the evidence is simply waiting to be found.
Sometimes the most interesting mysteries are not the monuments we can see, but the ones we think ought to be there.
#AncientMysteries #Buxton #Derbyshire #History #PeakDistrict #StoneCircle -
Is Buxton Missing a Stone Circle?
If you spend any amount of time exploring the prehistoric landscapes of the Peak District, a curious question begins to emerge.
Why does Buxton appear to be missing a stone circle?
Pull up a chair, let’s have a chat…
The area surrounding the spa town is rich in prehistoric archaeology. A short journey in almost any direction reveals evidence of ancient activity. Arbor Low, often called the Stonehenge of the North, lies to the east. The Bull Ring henge at Dove Holes is one of the finest surviving Neolithic earthworks in Derbyshire. Doll Tor, the Nine Ladies, the Grey Ladies and numerous burial mounds, cairns and standing stones dot the wider landscape.Yet Buxton itself appears to sit within a curious gap.
At first glance this may not seem particularly unusual. Not every settlement requires a stone circle. Ancient communities were shaped by geography, water sources, trade routes, ritual practices and social changes that are often difficult to reconstruct thousands of years later. Nevertheless, Buxton occupies a position that might be expected to attract prehistoric activity.
Long before the Romans arrived and dedicated the thermal waters to the goddess Arnemetia, the springs would almost certainly have been known to local communities. Across Britain, natural springs and unusual water sources frequently became places of ritual significance. Water was life. Water was mystery. Water emerged from beneath the earth carrying both practical and spiritual importance.The question therefore becomes whether the area around modern Buxton hosted prehistoric ceremonial activity that has since been lost, obscured or destroyed.
There is certainly evidence that people were present. The Peak District contains abundant traces of Neolithic and Bronze Age occupation. Routeways crossed the uplands. Burial monuments crowned prominent hills. Ceremonial sites were constructed across the limestone landscapes. Communities farmed, traded and buried their dead here long before recorded history.
The apparent absence of a surviving stone circle in Buxton may therefore reflect modern circumstances rather than prehistoric reality.
Urban development has transformed the landscape. Roman occupation altered the area significantly. Centuries of building, quarrying, agriculture and road construction have erased countless archaeological features across Britain. Some monuments survive because they stood in remote fields. Others vanished beneath towns and cities before antiquarians had the opportunity to record them.
Could Buxton once have possessed a ceremonial site now lost beneath streets, gardens or buildings?
It is not an impossible suggestion.
Alternatively, perhaps the sacred focus of the area was never a stone circle at all. Archaeologists have increasingly recognised that prehistoric ritual landscapes were diverse. Henges, timber circles, standing stones, springs, caves and burial monuments could all fulfil ceremonial functions. The modern tendency to focus on stone circles sometimes obscures the wider range of sacred places used by ancient communities.
This raises another intriguing possibility. Perhaps Buxton’s thermal waters were themselves the focus of ritual attention long before the arrival of the Romans. If so, the absence of a stone circle may not represent a missing monument but a different form of sacred landscape altogether.
As with so many mysteries of prehistory, certainty remains elusive. There is currently no clear evidence for a lost stone circle beneath Buxton. Yet the question remains an interesting one. In a county rich with prehistoric monuments, a town built around extraordinary natural springs occupies a landscape that seems surprisingly quiet.
Or perhaps the evidence is simply waiting to be found.
Sometimes the most interesting mysteries are not the monuments we can see, but the ones we think ought to be there.
#AncientMysteries #Buxton #Derbyshire #History #PeakDistrict #StoneCircle -
Some of the stones at #Avebury in Wiltshire taken a few years ago.
I much prefer this to Stonehenge, far larger, fewer visitors, and a VILLAGE in the middle of it!
#StandingstoneSunday #StoneCircle #Photography #History -
Some of the stones at #Avebury in Wiltshire taken a few years ago.
I much prefer this to Stonehenge, far larger, fewer visitors, and a VILLAGE in the middle of it!
#StandingstoneSunday #StoneCircle #Photography #History -
I got to The Rollright Stones today. It's a bit of a journey, but is always a good visit.
Today was made difficult by the wind blowing out incense and the candle, but with perseverance things got done.
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I got to The Rollright Stones today. It's a bit of a journey, but is always a good visit.
Today was made difficult by the wind blowing out incense and the candle, but with perseverance things got done.
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Another little play about with CapCut and some Stonehenge photos from various solstices and equinoxes (equinoxi? 😅) between 2022-25.
Set to music: Stonehenge by The Poison Girls (of course!)
Hope you like it 😊
#photography #music #travel #stonecircle #Stonehenge #festivals #vanlife #NewAgeTravellerCommunity
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Another little play about with CapCut and some Stonehenge photos from various solstices and equinoxes (equinoxi? 😅) between 2022-25.
Set to music: Stonehenge by The Poison Girls (of course!)
Hope you like it 😊
#photography #music #travel #stonecircle #Stonehenge #festivals #vanlife #NewAgeTravellerCommunity
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Bit of a quiet #StandingStoneSunday today. Here’s one of the lovely stones in #Avebury. #neolithic #uk #Wiltshire Photo taken November last year. #StandingStones #StoneCircle
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Bit of a quiet #StandingStoneSunday today. Here’s one of the lovely stones in #Avebury. #neolithic #uk #Wiltshire Photo taken November last year. #StandingStones #StoneCircle
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It's off the land of recumbent stone circles for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Druidstone stone circle on the west side of Bennachie in Aberdeenshire.
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It's off the land of recumbent stone circles for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Druidstone stone circle on the west side of Bennachie in Aberdeenshire.
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Made this up after the image popped into my head one morning a couple of weeks ago. Based loosely on memories of Avebury stone circle, in southern England. Rebelle 7.
Time lapse video: https://makertube.net/w/k5ofFNfLQRYUPZ6YAXgXpN
#MastoArt #DigitalArt #DigitalPainting #StandingStone #StoneCircle #Art
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A trip from what seems a lifetime ago to North Strone recumbent stone circle near Alford in Aberdeenshire for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Unusual circle. All the stones are small for a RSC. The colours are lovely. The stones are dark pink aplite.
Nice view from here of Aberdeenshire and my favourite hill Bennachie.
For all things recumbent, this magic gazetteer "Great Crowns Stone " is well worth a look.
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/media/4427/great-crowns-stone-illustrated-gazetteer.pdf -
A trip from what seems a lifetime ago to North Strone recumbent stone circle near Alford in Aberdeenshire for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Unusual circle. All the stones are small for a RSC. The colours are lovely. The stones are dark pink aplite.
Nice view from here of Aberdeenshire and my favourite hill Bennachie.
For all things recumbent, this magic gazetteer "Great Crowns Stone " is well worth a look.
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/media/4427/great-crowns-stone-illustrated-gazetteer.pdf -
Circle of the Past
Swinside Stone Circle, Cumbria
Drone: DJI Air 2S
#stonecircle #history #monochrome #aerialphotography #cumbria
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Circle of the Past
Swinside Stone Circle, Cumbria
Drone: DJI Air 2S
#stonecircle #history #monochrome #aerialphotography #cumbria
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Stanton Drew Stone Circle
#photography #StantonDrew #megalith #StoneCircle -
Stanton Drew Stone Circle
#photography #StantonDrew #megalith #StoneCircle -
Round sunset photo of Balgorkar recumbent stone circle in Aberdeenshire from many moons ago for today's #StandingStoneSunday
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Round sunset photo of Balgorkar recumbent stone circle in Aberdeenshire from many moons ago for today's #StandingStoneSunday
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A nice visit from back in May 2012 to Ardlair recumbent stone circle in Aberdeenshire for today's #StandingStoneSunday
There's a great view from this one of the surrounding hills. Knockandy Hill to the north, Tap o' Noth west and the Correen Hills south. To the east is the RSC wonderland of Dunnideer and Bennachie.
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A nice visit from back in May 2012 to Ardlair recumbent stone circle in Aberdeenshire for today's #StandingStoneSunday
There's a great view from this one of the surrounding hills. Knockandy Hill to the north, Tap o' Noth west and the Correen Hills south. To the east is the RSC wonderland of Dunnideer and Bennachie.
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A sunny visit to Frendraught stone circle in Aberdeenshire from back in 2013 for #StandingStoneSunday
The recumbent stone is sadly broken and flankers fallen.
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A sunny visit to Frendraught stone circle in Aberdeenshire from back in 2013 for #StandingStoneSunday
The recumbent stone is sadly broken and flankers fallen.
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Start of a new month and so far this morning the February weather is as rubbish as January's was. I thought I'd toot a photo from when it didn't rain in sunny Aberdeenshire. The wonderfully situated Corrstone Wood recumbent stone circle from a lovely visit 13 years back for #StandingStoneSunday
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Start of a new month and so far this morning the February weather is as rubbish as January's was. I thought I'd toot a photo from when it didn't rain in sunny Aberdeenshire. The wonderfully situated Corrstone Wood recumbent stone circle from a lovely visit 13 years back for #StandingStoneSunday
