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#StandingStoneSunday

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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