#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
Station No. 2, Turas Colmcille, a single cross slab, silhouetted against the night sky.
Glencolmcille, Co. Donegal, June 2023.
#StandingStoneSunday “The standing stone was covered completely covered in scratch marks - it was completely runed”
Apparently it is #StandingStoneSunday and I happen to have a vintage #Stonehenge pic circa1964? when you could still walk right in amongst the stones. I was 6 or 7 at the time, but I still remember the touch of the #Megalith. If my mom looks grim it's probably because she was contemplating her upcoming divorce!
#StandingStoneSunday Lots of standing stones! The two double stone rows which form part of the Merrivale Monuments complex on Dartmoor, Devon.
#Merrivale #Dartmoor #Devon #Menhirs #Megaliths #Infrared #Photography #BlackAndWhite #BWPhotography #LumixGH3 #Toned
Sepia real photographic postcard showing a view of Le Trèpied, a prehistoric dolmen, passage grave or chambered tomb near Perelle on Guernsey. Published by Norman Grut, Guernsey, not numbered, c.1920s. #Guernsey #Perelle #LeTrèpied #NormanGrut #Dolmens #Megaliths #NormanGrut #CartesPostalesAnciennes #Postcards #StandingStoneSunday
Lochbuie Stone Circle, the only circle on Mull, under the gaze of Ben Buie. Neolithic or early Bronze Age.
"The circle is about 12.3 metres in diameter, with the tallest stone about 2 metres high and the smallest about 1.2 metre high. There are three outlying stones, one about 5 metres from the circle to the south east. The second outlier is a very striking stone about 3 metres high, standing to the south west".
Photos 2 and 3 show the outlying stones. #StandingStoneSunday #IsleOfMull
A rather boggy individual of the Trippet Stones on Bodmin Moor. #StandingStoneSunday
Treverven Menhir at Treverven near St Buryan in Cornwall, viewed from the east and photographed on 24 April 2004. #Menhirs #Megaliths #Cornwall #Kernow #Penwith #StandingStoneSunday
More fantastic views of the ‘paps’ (boobs) of #Jura from this stone at Tarbert (#Gigha) which has a natural cleft. It was investigated for alignments by Alexander Thom. Photos by our member David Hoyle, who has also created an amazing #archaeoastronomy horizon viewing app which is linked from our pages. Look for the square blue standing stones icon: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1282318015 #StandingStoneSunday #archaeology #archeology #megaliths #standingstones #prehistory
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. #StandingStoneSunday More on our page: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=58519
Arbor Low Stone Circle. One for #StandingStoneSunday. OK - they aren't standing, but maybe they did once.
Fernacre is (hopefully) named after the old plural word for fairy “feren.” It’s one of Cornwall’s largest stone circles with around 69 stones of which half are still upright.
Rough (pronounced row) Tor is in the background.
Photograph by me.
#StandingStoneSunday #Folklore #History #Archaeology #Nature
It is #StandingStoneSunday time :ablobcatcoffee:
This is Prasasti Muarakaman IV from early 5th century AD, one of several prasasti from Kutai Martapura kingdom. The kingdom was located in what is today's East Kalimantan (Indonesian part of Borneo).
Photos taken March 2023 in Museum Nasional, Jakarta.
According to Indonesian Wikipedia article https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prasasti_Yupa#Muarakaman_IV_(D.2d) the text on this one is too worn out to read.
However the English Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABpa#Text have the text deciphered and translated to English. It basically says that this monument is a remembrance of when King Mulavarman given alms of 20000 cows to Brahmins.
My favourite stone in West Kennett Avenue for today's #StandingStoneSunday (35a) (portrait, needs a click)
This visit on a damp day in early June 2010.
Colmeallie is one of the more southerly Recumbent Stone Circles, and while only five stones remain standing it's a stunningly beautiful location in #GlenEsk at the southern end of the #Cairngorms #StandingStoneSunday More from @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=795
I'm so glad to have my old slides scanned so I can join in #StandingStoneSunday.
#218 The Heritage of Northern Ireland. Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, 1989, 1st edition. #Archaeology #Ireland #NorthernIreland #DOENI #StandingStoneSunday #BookOfTheDay
A simple & moving #StandingStoneSunday, again from my recent work trip on the way to UniCa: part of the #Tophet in #Tharros near Cabras. A Phoenician-Punic (8th-7th BC) sanctuary, consisting of an open area surrounded by a sacred enclosure in which were placed urns containing cremated remains of children & small animals. Remembering the innocent, perhaps, and the loss felt by parents, in a beautiful site on a hill overlooking the turquoise sea. #sardinia #sardegna
#StandingStoneSunday The elliptical stone arrangement with central stone of Boscawen-un, near Land's End, Cornwall.
#BoscawenUn #LandsEnd #Cornwall #Kernow #Photography #LandscapePhotography
#StandingStoneSunday The Merry Maidens, a circle of 19 stones, located between Penzance and Land's End in Cornwall.
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This is probably what comes closest to a Martian surface on Earth. Trona pinnacles , near Death Valley #nationalpark , where several science fiction movies were made, including Star Trek V and Planet of the Apes. #silentsunday #StandingStoneSunday #landscape #photography #hiking
Printed monochrome postcard showing Slidderyford Cromlech near Newcastle in County Down. Published by Evelyn Wrench of London in The Wrench Series, № 127, c.1902. #Dolmens #Megaliths #SlidderyfordDolmen #CountyDown #EvelynWrench #Postcards #StandingStoneSunday
Coming live from the Isle of Mull, Kilmore standing stones, for this week's #StandingStoneSunday 2 still upright at about 9 foot tall and 3 lying down.
The Nine Maidens Stone Row, an alignment of nine standing stones between St Columb Major and Wadebridge in Cornwall, once again, said to be women turned to stone for dancing on the sabbath. Photographed on 12 January 2004. #StandingStones #StColumbMajor #Cornwall #NineMaidens #StoneRows #Megaliths #StandingStoneSunday
Ballymacdermot court tomb 3500BCE. A beautiful spot off a small winding road amongst beautiful scenery. In the centre of the stones, there is the entrance to the antechamber and two burial chambers that you can drop down into.
Even in the middle of nowhere I still ended up collecting a full bag of rubbish that people had just dropped and secreted in amongst the crevices of the stones. Please respect the stones and take your crap with you.
#StandingStoneSunday
Grey Wethers: a pair of prehistoric stone circles on Dartmoor, Devon.
The name stems from the fact they look like a flock of sheep from a distance. So much so, folklore says a man was conned into buying them, believing them to be sheep.
Photograph by me.
"This must be one of the most beautiful places in #Moray with fantastic views ... stunning place" Modern Antiquarian on Browland. Doubted by some, but thought by others to be the remains of 'four poster' stone square. #StandingStoneSunday
Stones we can definitely manage
...standing, wellll sorta - having the best time out in Dorset yesterday & finally got to see the Kingston Russell circle
Into Wiltshire for today's #StandingStoneSunday, the unmistakable stones of Avebury.
This is part of the southern stone circle that stands inside the great Neolithic circle henge.
Visited on a rainy day in early June 2010.
#StandingStoneSunday time :ablobcatwobble:
This is Prasasti Tapan (1129 & 1134 AD) . It is a rectangular stone stela with inscriptions in "Quadratic Kadiri Style".
The inscriptions are large and the pits carved deeper into the stone.
The metal plate by the museum doesn't explain what is the inscription all about.
Photos taken two months ago in Museum Nasional.
Fantastic scorching day on the #BeaconsWay today, on the always quiet hills (deserted) of Fforest Fawr between Craig-y-Nos and Storey Arms.
Started off on Carreg Cadno, which I'm happily translating as Fox Rocks. Appropriate as my only companion at the station earlier was a fox.
A revisit to Maen Madoc standing stone and the Bronze Age cairn on Fan Llia. First time I've been up here since the official renaming of the National Park.
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Stones at the Heroshima Peace Memorial Park
War is the work of man
War is destruction of human life
War is death
To remember the past is to commit oneself to the future
To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war
To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace
10:30 am 25 February 1991
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
His holiness pope John Paul II
Machrie Moor Stone Circle 2, Isle of Arran, Scotland. Iconic. #StandingStoneSunday #Arran #Scotland
A slightly drizzly Peak District visit for today's #StandingStoneSunday - Nine Stones Close stone circle, between Youlgreave and Stanton in the White Peak.
Only four stones remain of this circle. They are the biggest stones of any Peak District ring. There appears to be a relationship between the circle and the rocky tor of Robin Hood's Stride (sometimes called Mock Beggar's Hall) nearby.
This visit June 2010.
Monochrome real photographic postcard of the Grey Wethers, a pair of stone circles near Sittaford Tor on Dartmoor in Devon, "Re-erected by Command of H.M. King George V". Published by Chapman & Son, Dawlish, № 11746, c.1910s. #Dartmoor #Devon #GreyWethers #StoneCircles #Postcards #StandingStoneSunday
A favourite photo from last year. Me and @MikeInTheGarden at #Stonehenge on the hottest day of the year. It was 37°C and we thought we were going to die. We're hiding it well in this photo though. 😊 #StandingStoneSunday #StandingStones #TrendyHats #TryingNotToDie
Corrimony Cairn (surrounded by a ring of standing stones just out of view!) for #StandingStoneSunday
Startling to come across this amazingly preserved site in the middle of a glen. The mound covers a Bronze Age burial - estimated to have been a woman, c.4,000 years ago.
Crawled through a low passageway into an open centre - a cap stone with circular pits, moved in the 1800s. Stood for a moment feeling the strangeness of the place & a sense of time somehow made present through stone.
#StandingStoneSunday The leaning central stone and a general view of the circle at Boscawen-un, near Land's End, Cornwall.
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Fabulous nuraghe of Genna Maria near Villanovaforru in Sardinia that I visited a few weeks ago on my way to UniCa, blissfully free of crowds - or of anyone, really! The central tower was built sometime in the Middle Bronze Age (about 1350BC), with more recent additions of a village during the Iron Age. Super simple & clever glass panel showing what it might have looked like, that you can gaze through & photograph. Mesmerizing.
#StandingStoneSunday #Sardegna #Sardinia #nuraghe #bronzeage
I crest the hill and it's clear we're on the moor proper. The grass changes to swathes of sandy tufts. The wind is freer.
And here, beyond the crest in a dip, hidden from Down Tor, is the circle. A few cattle graze nearby, but other than them there is suddenly a sense of isolation. It's welcome. The stones seem to demand it.
Later at home I read this excellent blog that includes information on their alignment with the sun. https://www.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2018-1-25_DPA_DownTor/DownTor.htm
Sardinia is riddled with extraordinary archeological sites, from early Neolithic standing stones & structures to the Nuraghe towers, Punic & Roman cities & ruins. Today, for Standing Stone Sunday, I visited the amazing Nuraghe tower & village (1500-1200BC), with large stone chamber intact, and the baffling sacred well (from about 1000BC), aligned for solar equinox and greater lunistice, all at Santa Cristina near Paulilatino.
You don't need me to tell you which standing stones these are. They could hardly be more famous and popular, but if you can catch them at a quiet time, on a quiet day, they are always impressive and moving.
When I first saw them, as a child, you could still walk right up to them and clamber around.
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Castlerigg Stone Circle in Cumbria, #England
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Something a little different for #StandingStoneSunday - The Watchers by John Kennedy (4 hollow steel monoliths where you can sit sheltered from the Scottish weather!) and the engraved 'A Moment in Time' by Louise Gardiner:
"Take a moment to behold, as still skies and storms unfold."
Panoramic view over the Cairngorms, some patches of snow on the distant peaks.
https://www.snowroads.com/corgarff/places/the-watchers-art-installation-and-a-moment-in-time #Scotland #landscape
This is Wayland's Smithy, which lies just off the ancient Ridgeway in Oxfordshire. It's current appearance follows archaeology-led restoration in the 1960s.
Named by the Saxons, sometime before 900 CE, after the Norse/Germanic smith-god Wolund, it was once though to be the home of an invisible smith, who would re-shoe any horse left nearby.
In fact it's a fine example of an Early Neolithic long barrow, built sometime around 3500 BCE.
A fine 'playing card' stone for today's #StandingStoneSunday (Aubrey Burl's term for a standing stone which is a thin, flat slab): Waun Leuci, partway up the side of hill in Y Mynydd Du, an area rich with prehistoric archaeology.
Nearby is the wonderful Cerrig Duon stone circle with the Maen Mawr outlier and stone rows, round barrows and an enigmatic stone setting. It stands above the nascent Afon Tawe.
Visited June 2010.
The Ancient and Strange Lang Stane of Aberdeen
See post on the stone: https://ailishsinclair.com/2023/04/the-mysterious-lang-stane-of-aberdeen/
"There's no scenic rolling hillsides or lush forests for the Lang Stane as enjoyed by its contemporaries..."
For millennia, people have been walking across the Dartmoor landscape, and it's very easy to get lost - especially in mist and rain. Horn's Cross is one of many waymarkers set up to guide the weary traveller. Although restored, it has been a marker on the Maltern Way since the Middle Ages but, like many of the ancient paths on Dartmoor, this route is likely to date from very much earlier.
#StandingStoneSunday #SilentSunday #Photography #DailyPhoto #History #Dartmoor #Archaeology
I've posted this photo before, at the tail end of last year but as it's #InternationalDarkSkyWeek and #StandingStoneSunday I thought I'd share it again!
This is the Longstone on the #IsleofWight with #CometNeowise visible in the sky. The Island is applying to become a Dark Skies Park and attracts many photographers to capture the views here.
My husband took the shot, I light painted the Longstone with a small torch. If I remember I'll post some more night sky photos over the week.
This is Lanyon Quoit, in Cornwall. Originally, part of a burial mound, the Quoit collapsed in a storm in 1815. It was rebuilt in 1824, but using only 3 uprights instead of the original 4.
I took this picture with my first ever digital camera - a Sony Mavica. It used 3.5 inch floppy disks, with a resolution of under half a megapixel - cutting edge but complete rubbish.
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More images from yesterday's trip to Scorhill for #StandingStoneSunday #LichenSubscribe
The Auld Wives' Lifts on Craigmaddie Moor north of #Glasgow. Said to have once been surrounded by a ring of yew trees and sacred to the Druids. The hole is aligned to midwinter sunset. Legend says the stones were carried there by 3 local witches to find out who was strongest; geologists say it's a glacial erratic. Folklore advises crawling through the hole on first visit if you don't want to die childless. #StandingStoneSunday #Folklore #Megalithic
No actual standing stones for my Sunday offering this week, but a significant peice of prehistory, all the same.
This is a view of Cadbury Castle, in Somerset. This large, ramparted hillfort covers some 7.3 hectares, and was in use from Neolithic times until the late Saxon period.
Local tradition, first recorded by John Leland in 1542, asserts that this was the site of Arthur's Camelot - a popular view still.
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Brevig Standing Stone on the Isle of Barra, Scotland. The only erect stone of any size on the island, it is an odd shape as it is a bent stone. This stone is 10ft tall, there is another about 8ft lying nearby broken on the ground. #StandingStoneSunday #PreHistory
Have just published a new set of 14 colour postcards feauturing some of my photos of the prehistoric monuments of Cornwall: Duloe Stone Circle, Boswens Menhir, Watch Croft Menhir, Mên Gurtha, Tremenheere Longstone, The Blind Fiddler, Lanyon Quoit, Nine Maidens Stone Row, Trelew Menhir, Zennor Quoit, The Sisters, Chûn Quoit, Dry Tree Menhir and Carfury Menhir. See http://cornovia-press.wikidot.com/postcards for details. £9.99 for the set. Also available individually. #Menhirs #Dolmens #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday
Scorhill stone circle, Dartmoor
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The little known menhir at Lezerea Farm near Burras in the parish of Wendron, between Redruth and Helston in Cornwall. Photographed from the north on 9 May 1993. The stone, almost 10ft high, was set in a concrete base about 50 years ago. #Wendron #Cornwall #Menhirs #Megaliths #StandingStoneSunday
A firery red boulder at White Pocket, Arizona.
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Spent a couple of hours this afternoon shrouded in a very dense, very soggy, but very atmospheric fog, exploring the stone rows and circles on Trowlesworthy Tor, on the western edge of Dartmoor.
I'd never been here before, it's really quite amazing just how much megalithic stuff is dotted around the landscape of this bit of the moor.
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The Headless Cross in typical Dartmoor murk for #StandingStoneSunday
This fine menhir lives at Lostmarc'h, on the Crozon Peninsula, in Brittany. It was once the largest of an alignment of 15 stones, but most of its fellows are now toppled or gone.
It's a great place to cycle to from anywhere on the Peninsula - which, as you can see from my bike being propped up against it, is exactly what I did.
The views are spectacular and the beaches are lovely.
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The Cheesewring, Bodmin Moor, #Cornwall (UK).
This impossible weathered granite outcrop must surely have provided a reliable source of worried inspiration for many generations of Bronze Age megalith hoickers.