At the Ring of Brodgar #StandingStones #Orkney

Come visit a gorgeous site just outside of Sintra, Portugal, that's full of #standingstones - is it a proper cromlech? Maybe! It's definitely a fabulous site!
#StandingStoneSunday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avLAc0em0zg

The enigmatic Arthog standing stones for today's #StandingStoneSunday

The stones form an arc and also a row, plus a fantastic quartz block.

This visit March 2012. Portrait, may need a click.

The Tremenhere or Tremenheere Longstone near St Keverne in Cornwall, photographed from the north on 22 April 2003. #Cornwall #Kernow #Tremenheere #Menhirs #StandingStones #StandingStoneSunday

Machrie Moor Standing Stones on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. These historic ruins date back to the Neolithic and early Bronze Age periods, approximately 3500 to 1500 BC.
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The menirs of the Cromeleque dos Almendres in Portugal's Alentejo region. This stone circle is one of the oldest in the world, 7,000 years old. It was also actively used (and its form changed) for three thousand years!

read more here: https://prehistoricportugal.com/2024/01/almendres-cromeleque/

The fabulous Harold's Stones at Trellech, Monmouthshire for today's #StandingStoneSunday

Plentiful folklore abounds, of the giant Jack o' Kent, the Devil, lost fiddlers and forgotten battles:

https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/103/harolds-stones

This visit November 2011.

This red sandstone menir stands on a ridge in Portugal's Algarve. It's one of four Neolithic stones in an alignment stretching several kilometers. It's identified as Vilarinha 3.
...But it's not!
Read more here: https://prehistoricportugal.com/2024/05/menhirs-of-vilarinha/

New blog post - Reverb Round-up #2. The latest instalment of our occasional series looking at some of the best music, zines, podcasts & all round creativity for anyone with an interest in folklore, hauntology & the folk revival in general

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Bosiliack Farm Menhir in West Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the south-east on 5 July 2003. #Bosiliack #Penwith #Cornwall #Menhirs #StandingStones #Megaliths #StandingStoneSunday

Posted from @AllysonShaw@pixelfed.scot because I’m having myriad issues with @pixelfed and I’m not sure how I feel about posting there. I took this photo of the Stones of Stenness yesterday morning. #StandingStoneSunday #SilentSunday #standingStones #Orkney #scotland #neolithic #SacredSpace #LandscapePhotography #Sunrise

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Pointe d'Agon, Normandie

I've posted a lot of engravings of mountains recently. Here's some rocks of more modest dimensions...

“Seven long strides shalt thou take and if Long Compton thou canst see, King of England thou shalt be.” But despite the witch’s promise, the would-be King and his men turned to stone.

The Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire

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Pentax K1000
Ricoh 28mm f3.5 Rikenon XR

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Autumn in the pass of the two stones for today's #StandingStoneSunday

Bwlch y Ddeufaen is so named for its two impressive monoliths, but there's more going on here; near the eastern stone there's a fan-shape of small standing stones, barely tall enough to see over the reedy grass. Millenia later, Roman soldiers marched through this pass where pylons now stride. The past and present leach into each other here.

This visit October 2011.

Watch Croft Menhir near Morvah in West Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the east-south-east on 29 May 2004. #Morvah #Cornwall #Megaliths #StandingStones #Menhirs #StandingStoneSunday

Standing tall on a hilly ridge in the northern part of Portugal's Algarve, Vilarinha 2 is a gorgeous red sandstone menir, part of an alignment of four. Wave-like serpentiform carvings can still be seen (on the lower part of its left edge & centre).