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Chris Bond<p>Tregeseal East Stone Circle near St Just in West Penwith, Cornwall. Photo taken from the south-west on 5 May 2003. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tregeseal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tregeseal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cornwall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornwall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a></p>
Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿<p>An interesting article from Duncan Lunan exploring some of the lesser-known stones on Arran. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Archaeoastronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeoastronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/IsleofArran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsleofArran</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DuncanLunan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuncanLunan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/03/23/more-arran-stones/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theorkneynews.scot/2025/03/23/</span><span class="invisible">more-arran-stones/</span></a></p>
Chris Bond<p>Monochrome real photographic postcard showing "The Devil's Chair" at Avebury in Wiltshire. Publisher not stated, № 7570. Postally unused, but is c.1920. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Avebury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Avebury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Postcards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postcards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a></p>
Chris Bond<p>Real photographic monochrome postcard showing Standing Stones at Ettric Bay or Ettrick Bay Stone Circle on the Isle of Bute. Publisher not stated, not numbered. Postally unused, but is c.1920. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bute</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EttrickBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EttrickBay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Postcards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postcards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a></p>
Chris Bond<p>Printed monochrome postcard showing Fernworthy Sacred Circle near Chagford on Dartmoor, Devon. Published by Chapman &amp; Son of Dawlish, № 4929. Postally unused, but is c.1910. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fernworthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fernworthy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dartmoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dartmoor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Devon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Postcards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postcards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a></p>
Anthony at Willow House Prints<p>A tiny wood engraved menhir study, under a brooding sky. No stone in particular but probably inspired by the circle stones at Long Meg <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltText</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stonecircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stonecircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/woodengraving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woodengraving</span></a></p>
Anthony at Willow House Prints<p>These two limited ed’ snowy linocuts are now also on the print shop, with free UK delivery <a href="https://willowhouseprints.uk/shop/product-category/prints-for-sale/limited-edition-prints/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">willowhouseprints.uk/shop/prod</span><span class="invisible">uct-category/prints-for-sale/limited-edition-prints/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Avebury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Avebury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whitehorse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whitehorse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/snow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>snow</span></a></p>
grateful wolf<p>Prehistoric London : Its Mounds and Circles, E. O. Gordon - scholarly analysis of prehistorical Britain (illustrated) - originally published in 1914 <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prehistory</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/megalithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megalithic</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/146239198691" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ebay.co.uk/itm/146239198691</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Roy Reed<p>Mên-an-Tol - part of what was originally a stone circle with the stones probably not being in their original positions. It is however one of the iconic sights of Cornish pre-history.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/StandingStones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStones</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a></p>
Chris Bond<p>Craddock Moor Stone Setting near Liskeard in Cornwall, a kerbed boulder consisting of a pair of natural rocks surrounded by a stone circle about 6m diameter. Photographed from the south-south-west on 9 February 1996. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CraddockMoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CraddockMoor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BodminMoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BodminMoor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cornwall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornwall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a></p>
thesweetcheat<p>A hot and muggy walk on the North York Moors today, making good use of public transport to revisit two stone circles we haven't been to for 25 years and a stone row that we skipped back then. The Esk Valley train line and the Coastliner bus service got us to the Low and High Bridestones and Breckon Howe barrow on Sleights Moor (walking up from Grosmont) and then to Blakey Topping stone circle (walking from the Hole of Horcum). </p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/NorthYorkMoors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthYorkMoors</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicTransport</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BronzeAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BronzeAge</span></a></p>
thesweetcheat<p>14 miles of sweltering hot southwest Dartmoor, from Shaugh Prior to Yelverton, taking in 3 tors and numerous prehistoric sites. Finally got to visit Trowlesworthy Warren stone rows and cairn circles, an itch I've wanted to scratch for a very long time, as well as revisiting old favourites Ringmoor Down and Brisworthy stone circle.</p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Dartmoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dartmoor</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BronzeAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BronzeAge</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/AubreyBurl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AubreyBurl</span></a></p>
Trilobyter<p>Standing stones of the Almendres cromlech.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThickTrunkTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThickTrunkTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/StandingStones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStones</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Portugal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/stonecircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stonecircles</span></a></p>
Helen Clayton<p>Grey Wethers <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a>. Legend has it a flock of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sheep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sheep</span></a> turned to stone by Belus the Sun God to punish a greedy peasant. </p><p>‘…every Midsummer Eve, at midnight, the stones take their former shapes, and, as sheep, graze till morning upon the green slopes of Sittaford Tor…should anyone succeed in shearing one of these sheep ere sunrise, its fleece, if sprinkled with water that may be found in a deep rock basin on top of Kestor, will turn to gold.’</p><p><a href="https://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/learning/dartmoor-legends/the-legend-of-grey-wethers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dartmoor.gov.uk/learning/dartm</span><span class="invisible">oor-legends/the-legend-of-grey-wethers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a></p>
Chris Bond<p>Part of the Nine Maidens Stone Circle near Boskednan in Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the north-east on 29 March 2003. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cornwall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornwall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Penwith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Penwith</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Boskednan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boskednan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a></p>
thesweetcheat<p>The fabulous Nant Tarw (Bull's Brook) stone circles for today's <a href="https://toot.community/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a> </p><p>A pair circles made up of small stones, as well as a three stone alignment, located in a shallow valley to the north of Y Mynydd Du mountains. </p><p>Visited on a cold, frozen day in January 2011. The boggy ground near the circles was hard with ice. </p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/YMynyddDu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YMynyddDu</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BronzeAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BronzeAge</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BannauBrycheiniog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BannauBrycheiniog</span></a></p>
Chris Bond<p>Monochrome real photographic postcard of the Druid Circle and Tal-y-Fan at Penmaenmawr in Caernarfonshire or Sir Gaernarfon. Published by A.W. Hutton, Aldersyde, Llanelian, Colwyn Bay, № A.W.H. P.93. Postally unused but dated c.1930. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Penmaenmawr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Penmaenmawr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caernarfonshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caernarfonshire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Postcards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postcards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a></p>
Chris Bond<p>Brisworthy Stone Circle near Yelverton on Dartmoor in Devon. Photographed from the north-west on 24 July 1994. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brisworthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brisworthy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dartmoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dartmoor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Devon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a></p>
Anthony at Willow House Prints<p>The Carles, Keswick - survey day through the lens of 1983 Spectrum classic 'Valhalla'</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Castlerigg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Castlerigg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cumbria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cumbria</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a></p>
Chris Bond<p>#229 Cheryl Straffon (ed) - Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites of West Penwith, No 12, Summer 1990. Meyn Mamvro, St Just. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CherylStraffon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CherylStraffon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MeynMamvro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MeynMamvro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EarthMysteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarthMysteries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StoneCircles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Boscawen%C3%9Bn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoscawenÛn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cornwall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornwall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kernow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kernow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dowsing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dowsing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheLizard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheLizard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Megaliths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Megaliths</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookOfTheDay</span></a></p>
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