Not my usual kind of Standing Stone for #StandingStoneSunday but this was a nice surprise yesterday on the Hall Walk around beautiful #fowey in #Cornwall and presented here in honour of yesterday’s fine family walk. Close up shows the other side and tells you all about it. Always happy to see a fellow #writer honoured.
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Not quite #StandingStoneSunday but these Mên-an-Tol referencing concrete almost-sculptures seem to be a feature around London and elsewhere. Here are some rather incongruously in an area rich in #Roman remains that I visited today. More in the next panel…
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Printed monochrome postcard showing a view of "Le Dolmen, Environs de Saint-Nectaire." Published by L'Hirondelle of Paris, № 351. Postally used in 1906.
The eastern terminal of both double stone rows at Merrivale on Dartmoor, Devon. Photo taken on 31 August 2004.
Cup and ring rock artn(Blairbuy 3), at the foot of the Fell of Barhullion, Monreith.
#StandingStoneSunday #Galloway #Scotland #History
Grey Wethers has two prehistoric stone circles, located on a grassy plateau north of Postbridge, Dartmoor. The circles are each about 33 m in diameter, and less than 5 metres apart. An excavation took place in 1898. Folklore tells how sheep turned to stones. #StandingStoneSunday
A North Walian obscurity for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Clogwyn-yr-Eryr (possible) stone row, high on a ridge in the foothills of Y Carneddau mountains. There are views to Hafodygorswen cairn circle in the valley, Pen-y-Gaer Iron Age hillfort and numerous high level Bronze Age cairns on the mountains. The tallest stone has drill holes and has been reused as a gate post at some time.
Passed on my way up to Carnedd Llewelyn, May 2012.
Les architectures funéraires néolithiques des rives du Mor Bihan sont classées au patrimoine mondial de l' #UNESCO !
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https://www.youtube.com/live/XWxGT35v4Yc?feature=shared&t=18300
#carnac #morbihan #worldheritage #menhir #dolmen #StandingStoneSunday
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Close 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. #StandingStoneSunday
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Were 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 #StandingStoneSunday
Nuraghe Aleri, near Foxi Manna Beach #sardinia
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:
https://www.donnanuragica.com/province/provincia-di-nuoro/tertenia-tertenia-nuraghe-aleri/
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We 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. #StandingStoneSunday #fogou
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. #StandingStoneSunday
For today’s #StandingStoneSunday here are two shots of the same stone from #Avebury. Something about the angle makes it look a little bit like the giant statues of Easter Island! Always lovely to walk around Avebury. #Wiltshire #neolithic
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We stopped off to revisit the beautiful #MerryMaidens, 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. #StandingStoneSunday
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We 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 #bronzeage 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 #nuraghe!). #StandingStoneSunday
Printed 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.
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A 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!
#StandingStoneSunday #Megaliths #standingstones
