#StandingStoneSunday

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Helen Clayton<a href="https://mas.to/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>

JulietJFallClose by, but only found after a long circular venture through prickly gorse & brambles (wearing shorts!), we visited the surprising Tregaseal Holed Stones (Cornwall 🇬🇧), along the Tinners’ Way, an old transport road. They have been re-erected within living memory & may not be in their original positions or even be now laid the correct way round. I would have laid them to be able to look through all 4 holes at once, but hey. Another fascinating ancient megalithic mystery. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>

JulietJFallWere we done? No! A few days later, we visited Tregaseal stone circle, not so far from Cape Cornwall (similar feel of “end of the world” as Land’s End only much less tacky!). Apparently late Neolithic-early Bronze Age (approx. 2500-1500 BC): a slightly-flattened circle of 19 stones. A number of stones have fallen over the years and been re-erected, and there are also a number of other stones lying about, some in the hedge were apparently part of a second interlocked circle <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>

PaulHNuraghe Aleri, near Foxi Manna Beach <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/sardinia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sardinia</a> The entrance was sealed because of collapse danger. It was still a great site to visit. The wall showed signs of a second side chamber, now collapsed.More info on:<a href="https://www.donnanuragica.com/province/provincia-di-nuoro/tertenia-tertenia-nuraghe-aleri/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.donnanuragica.com/province/provincia-di-nuoro/tertenia-tertenia-nuraghe-aleri/</a><a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/MastodonOnTheRocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastodonOnTheRocks</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/nuraghe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuraghe</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/megalithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megalithic</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/sardegna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sardegna</a>

JulietJFallWe then saw another underground fogou: Boleigh fogou near St Buryan (Cornwall 🇬🇧) on private land. We phoned beforehand to arrange the visit. Again, exact purpose unknown. A ritual doorway? The garden it was located in a garden that seemed to really mirror the temperate rainforest that would grow in Cornwall, had it not been grazed & cleared over centuries of settlement. There was meant to be a carved figure near the door but even with imagination couldn’t make it out. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fogou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fogou</a>

Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Duddo Five Stones in Northumberland. A lovely wee circle, at one time there were seven stones. The weathering on the stones is rather reminiscent of the Devil's Arrows in Yorkshire. The circle is also called the 'Whistling Stones' because of the noise the wind sometimes makes as it passes through them. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>

Andrew DonkinFor today’s <a href="https://toot.community/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a> here are two shots of the same stone from <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Avebury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Avebury</a>. Something about the angle makes it look a little bit like the giant statues of Easter Island! Always lovely to walk around Avebury. <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Wiltshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wiltshire</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neolithic</a>

JulietJFallWe stopped off to revisit the beautiful <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MerryMaidens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MerryMaidens</a>, a late Neolithic/early Bronze Age (about 2500-1500 BC) circle of 19 stones slightly below a ridge of a sloping field. Cornwall 🇬🇧, near Penzance. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>

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JulietJFallWe then hopped on a ferry Roscoff-Plymouth, to stay with family. My knowledgeable uncle G was a fabulous guide, creating tailor-made itineraries and zipping us along with gusto & humour. One day, we started out by returning to Carn Euny (Cornwall 🇬🇧) a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bronzeage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bronzeage</a> village with several houses. There is an extraordinary fogou: a long underground stone tunnel, with a side chamber, like a stone igloo (or like a Sicilian <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuraghe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuraghe</a>!). <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>

Chris BondPrinted monochrome postcard showing a view of Lanyon Cromlech in West Penwith, Cornwall. Published by F. Frith & Co Ltd of Reigate in the Frith's Series, № 22985, photo registered in 1890. Postally unused, but is c.1905-10.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LanyonQuoit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanyonQuoit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dolmens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dolmens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cornwall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cornwall</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Postcards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Postcards</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>

JulietJFallA few days later, we went to Carnac (Brittany 🇫🇷) and all got heatstroke because I had unwisely pre-booked a guided tour for 12am, not thinking that there would be a full-blown heatwave. The megalithic alignments are absolutely extraordinary, but probably best visited in the winter when the whole site is freely accessible. In the summer, you can only go in guided groups. Humans in last photo for scale! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Megaliths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Megaliths</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/standingstones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#standingstones</a>

Chris BondPart of Stannon Stone Circle on Bodmin Moor. Photo taken on 30 May 2005.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StannonStoneCircle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StannonStoneCircle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StoneCircles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BodminMoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BodminMoor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cornwall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cornwall</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>

JulietJFallNot far from there, in Plouharnel (Brittany 🇫🇷, we happened upon a fabulous dolmen in a field when we got a bit lost on a walk looking for megalithic sites. Then we searched for the more accessible dolmen de Crucuno in the village of the same name, now resting up against a stone farmhouse. It seems incredible for someone to build so close to this monument, but I don’t know the local history. Two fabulous sites, but don’t visit them - as we did - in a heatwave! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>

JulietJFallThe site in Kerzerho, in Erdeven (Brittany 🇫🇷) has several remarkable megaliths in a long looping walk. We explored around, between menhirs, “giant stones” and possibly used for sacrifices (hey, or picnics, no?). The Erdeven alignments are apparently made up of several hundred monoliths spread over almost 2 km, but it’s hard to get a feel for the hugeness from the ground. Magical place, with few visitors in early July (French schools still not on holiday). <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>

Chrysalis<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a> Here’s some detail from the lower back of the Maiden Stone, one of the finest and most recent carved Pictish standing stones: sea monster and charming Pictish mirror and comb. Carved about 1,400 years ago. Near Inverurie <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Aberdeenshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aberdeenshire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scotland</a>

JulietJFallStart of a long thread on megaliths for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>, following our summer holiday adventures in Brittany 🇫🇷 & Cornwall 🇬🇧. Starting with an alignment in Erdeven. If you like standing stones, I have previous 🧵on Neolithic & Bronze Age sites in Sardinia, from the past two years when I was a visiting prof there (geography not archeology!). I have a long-standing interest in how humans inhabit landscape so I love old & new standing stones, dragging the family along. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Born%C3%A9es" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bornées</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geography</a>

thesweetcheatOne of my very favourite sites for today's <a href="https://toot.community/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a> Moel ty Uchaf ('Highest House on the Bare Hill') is a superb cairn circle set in an elevated position on the foothills of Y Berwyn mountain range above Llandrillo. It has extensive views across the Dee towards all the main mountain ranges of North Wales from Aranau to Y Carneddau.This visit May 2012 on my way up to Cadair Bronwen.<a href="https://toot.community/tags/TheModernAntiquarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheModernAntiquarian</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BronzeAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BronzeAge</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Berwynnau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Berwynnau</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/GogleddCymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GogleddCymru</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wales</a>

Ulla RajalaCosdon Stone Row, or The Cemetery, lies on the east flank of Cosdon Hill in South Zeal in the northern part of the Dartmoor National Park. It is an unusual triple stone row. It is headed by a cairn and the length of still visible stones is 146 m. It was partially excavated in 1896. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a>

Anthony at Willow House PrintsFor Standing Stone Sunday, a tiny, quick and dirty wood engraving of Long Meg, and a few of her daughters. Block in-progress and final print shown <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AltText</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reliefPrintmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reliefPrintmaking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StoneCircles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cumbria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cumbria</a>

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