'Ye'll find Mary and Tam in ther bothie up by they twa staunin stanes.'
Shieling bothy and two upright stones, prob. not neolithic but good identifiers in the landscape and not used for building. It doesn't stop them having some significance.
#StandingStoneSunday #scotland #landscape #archaeology

As it’s the first #StandingStoneSunday of October, here’s a suitably witchy reminder of my latest book…

To stand inside a stone circle is to be enfolded by the Long Neolithic. To stand inside a stone circle is also to be enfolded by folklore and a sense of awe. Archaeology is a telling of stories, we do not pretend that our stories are the only ones that matter. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Happy #StandingStoneSunday again from the last stone standing at Froggatt Edge Stone Circle in the Hope Valley, Peak District National Park.

The forge stone in the south west quadrant of Avebury. So called as it was partially reconstructed circa 1938 from fragments of stone reclaimed from the village forge.

Artwork from the ‘Avebury Imaginary’ project by @danielandclara.bsky.social

#StandingStoneSunday

Hello folks, who is out with the stones today? Let us know where you go and what you see
#StandingStoneSunday

Sheep with standing stones at the Kerlescan alignments at Carnac in Brittany, June 2023. #StandingStoneSunday

#StandingStoneSunday and I give you one of the Devil's Arrows. 📷 Own.

Ballynoe Stone Circle, just south of Downpatrick, Ireland. #StandingStoneSunday #megaliths #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Archaeology

Arbor Low by Monyash for #standingstonesunday 🪨

A while ago I said I might post about modern Stonehenge myths, some of which pop up frequently in all manner of places, including stuff written by actual archaeologists. So – to begin with, the old chestnut about (allegedly) being able to hire a hammer when visiting Stonehenge. #StandingStoneSunday

The ancient stone at Harry's Walls on St Mary's stands next to a modern daymark, the two seeming to work in synchrony. Maybe the stone itself was used as a marker by boats in prehistoric times. You can actually see it from the water in pic 2 ... Look for daymark's cross! #StandingStoneSunday

Boscawen Two, upright stone.
#StandingStoneSunday

#kernow #cornwall #standingstonesunday #megalithic
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Then out into the country.
Past the reclaimed standing stones and out into the countryside.
#standingstonesunday

A wee wander for #StandingStoneSunday
Up to the Neolithic burial mound first and then past the hangman’s tree.

The menhir of Le Repaire in Esse (Charente) is 2.65m tall. An inventory from 1844 records that a follower of Charlemagne burned candles around it in 789. Card by Dupuis in Angoulême. #StandingStoneSunday.

Appropriate for #StandingStoneSunday:
The Pipers: turned to stone for playing tunes on a Sunday.
The Hurlers: 3 stone circles of men who had same fate for playing hurling on Lord's Day.
That'll teach 'em.

Evocative late Neolithic/early Bronze Age ceremonial landscape on Bodmin Moor.
#Archaeology 🏺