A revisit to Long Meg and her Daughters for #StandingStoneSunday

So much going on at this site with the setting, the geology, the carvings and the earlier monuments - just a fascinating glimpse at the Neolithic.

📷 October 2025 #AncientBluesky #Archaeology #Neolithic #Cumbria

My Google pics found this when I asked it to search my photo library for a #StandingStoneSunday contribution. Taken in 2011 it's the Runstenskullen or The Rune Stone Hill in Lund, Sweden. This is a collection of C10th rune stones from Skåne.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekLForLookingIn
Lit from within, St Dennis church looked very inviting on a mizzly evening.
Also #StandingStoneSunday with the lovely Celtic cross 🙂

In la forêt de Toulfoën, this recumbent ‘menhir’ was raised in 1957 by the office du tourisme. Its provenance is dubious, but it symbolises the pardon of the birds, an ancient bird market held at the edge of the forest. #StandingStoneSunday #Britanny #Bretagne #Breizh

The Easterton Of Roseisle Stone - a Class 1 Pictish Symbol Stone discovered at Moray in 1894. The stone probably dates to the 5th or 6th centuries, and is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #Picts

Four from Castlerigg 📸 Sep ‘26

#standingstonesunday

#StandingStoneSunday #Stunday - These two ‘standing stones’ are the most impressive remains of Carnaghan Portal Tomb, Inishowen, Donegal, Ireland
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Infrared #Photography #Black&White #Monochrome #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Donegal

The smaller but no less impressive stone circle at Stanton Drew, Somerset. Part of a ritual complex dating to 4,500 years ago, the main circle is the third largest in Britain and would contained a forest of huge wooden posts in concentric rings
#StandingStoneSunday

Callanish at the equinox , funnily enough we have had storms non stop since 😂 #StandingStoneSunday

Up early in Edinburgh, from where I can offer this for #StandingStoneSunday from the wonderful National Museum. And it does look like a bike over a windscreen, thus demonstrating superiority of 2 wheeled transport 😉

The Ring of Brodgar as seen from across the Loch of Harray, Orkney
📷 13.05.22 #Stunday #Mono
#StandingStoneSunday
#BlackAndWhitePhotography
#ClassicMono #BlancoYNegro

The Hole Stone (or Crow Stone) in Galloway. Local tradition says that it was used during marriage ceremomies, by joining hands through the hole. It stands close to the White Cairn and another stone reputedly once accompanied it.
#Scotland #History #StandingStoneSunday

Ok it’s not a standing stone in the Prehistoric sense, in fact it is currently not even standing, but this old boundary stone was a great find yesterday and so is today’s #standingstonesunday

freshly erected and bleach washed Avebury stones in 1933
#StandingStoneSunday