#StandingStoneSunday Goodnight from the elfish Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire.

Music for a #StandingStoneSunday

Is this a bit controversial for #StandingStoneSunday
I’m wondering if a modern community raising Standing Stones is OK?
Like in Atapuerca, Northern Spain.
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The stone circle on Summerslade Down. The stones were likely brought all the way down to Wiltshire from The Jewsons sometime in the last decade of the 20th century....

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This Stegosaurus-style Avebury stone must have once looked very different before it broke...

Alexander Keiller cobbled it together in the 1930s from bits found nearby

📸 Mine

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For #StandingStoneSunday, here's Monteneuf. Just some of the hundreds of megalithic in this forested region of Brittany.

“The stones hath fallen a sacrifice to the wretched ignorance and avarice of a little village, unluckily plac'd within it.”

William Stukeley’s (1687-1765) observation on the destruction of Avebury, between 1719-1724.

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I’m always reminded of the 6 inch Stone Henge in the first Spinal Tap film when I pass the real thing on the A303. Somehow, for such a significant site, it can feel quite small. And at the same time, I awed by its beauty and mystery and the fact that it remains - 6000 years on
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The Long Neolithic lives as call to mystery, call to wonder. Whether we respond to those calls as archaeologists, ley hunters or stone pilgrims – we respond with stories. The Long Neolithic tithes in narrative. With typology or folklore, we all pay our dues. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

A holed stone
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Arbor Low by Monyash for #standingstonesunday 🪨

“Did they sacrifice to God here?" asked Tess.
"No," said Angel.
"Who to?"
"I believe to the sun. That lofty stone set away by itself is in the direction of the sun, which will presently rise behind it."
Walk to #StandingStoneSunday mothership yesterday to where the law caught up with Hardy’s Tess

Just one of the beauties from the Ring of Brodgar on Mainland, Orkney for #StandingStoneSunday. The strip of heath behind is the deep, rock-cut surrounding ditch. #WorldHeritage

I recall noticing it years ago, might even have taken a snap, past it again recently. It's by the Shinagag~Blair Atholl (estate) road. The SS has been recorded (www.trove.scot/activities/1206564). Oddly not marked on any early maps 🧐 ?? 📷 mine.
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Arran for #StandingStoneSunday

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Avebury Henge
📷 July 2026

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Kerpenhir menhir, aka Menhir de Bob Saes, nr #Locmariaquer #Morbihan #Brittany #France (2022)

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Neolithic standing stones, Kilmartin Glen, Scotland, courtesy of Diego Cue. #StandingStoneSunday #megaliths #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Archaeology