Over the fields to visit the Standing Stones.
A day late for #standingstonesunday

Some of the many schist megaliths standing at Monteneuf, Brittany. Neolithic/Bronze Age #StandingStoneSunday

Stanton Drew Stone Circles, Somerset, 2023. #StandingStoneSunday

Exploring newly discovered prehistoric rock art at An Tor, above Aberfeldy #StandingStoneSunday

The stones store stories like lithic batteries. People anchor tales to them, give them folkloric titles – the Giant's Grave, the Sleepers, the Devil's Toad. In all of this, a recognition that the Long Neolithic lives in our imaginations. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

#StandingStoneSunday Stones of Stenness

Nine Ladies Stone circle, Stanton Moor for #standingstonesunday 🪨

The Hurlers stone circles, Bodmin Moor courtesy of James Verrant. #StandingStoneSunday #megaliths #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Archaeology

One for #StandingStoneSunday

“Of all the standing stones of the British Isles, nothing encapsulates the passage of time more than the view before me.”

A new entry on the Stone Diaries blog, with a visit to the stone circles of Stanton Drew, Somerset.

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The Longstone, Mottistone this morning. #StandingStoneSunday
#IsleofWight #Neolithic #archaeology #NationalTrust

Zennor Quoit 🌿🪨🌀
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This is the six metre tall menhir of Kerampeulven in Finistère, Brittany. Perhaps due to its phallic shape, it was long believed to enhance fertility, so women who hoped to fall pregnant would rub their bellies against it. #StandingStoneSunday

Carnac (🇫🇷) is the site of thousands of standing stones, constructed ~7,000-years-ago #StandingStoneSunday

Radiocarbon dates indicate people added to and changed the complex over a 300 year period, painting a picture of a dynamic #megalithic landscape.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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A pan across Callanish for #StandingStoneSunday

the Egå stone
'Alvkil and his sons raised this stone in memory of Manne, their kinsman who was land-steward of Ketil the Norwegian'

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The huge Tirsted Stone, c11

Asråd and Hildvig (/ Hildulv?) raised this stone in memory of Frede, their kinsman (?) And he was then bafainkuaiRa (terror of men?); and he died in Svitjod [Sweden] and was fursifrikisiąpi (the foremost of Frigge's host?); and then: all vikings

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next,
also c11, Asferg stone:
'Thorger, Toke's son raised this stone in memory of Mule, his brother, a very good thegn'

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First, the c11 Glenstrup Stone

'Thore raised this stone in memory of Gunnar, his Father'

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For #StandingStoneSunday - some of the wonderful runestones in the National Museum of Denmark 🇩🇰

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