One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Here’s my take on that Suffolk coin hoard, thanks to all the commenters here on BlueSky! spectator.com/article/why-...

There's something about encountering standing stones in a wood, watching and waiting among the trees ... This is the Hoar Stone at Enstone, also known as the Old Soldier, who on Midsummer's Eve will emerge from the wood to go (some say) to the pub. #StandingStoneSunday

#StandingStoneSunday with the Cosdon Hill Stone rows see more of it in our new episode on Dartmoor >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-6...

#StandingStoneSunday The Hellstone

Lochbuie Stone Circle on the Isle of Mull in Argyll. Probably dating to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, the stone circle is the only one on Mull. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Mull #Argyll

#blueskyartshow #Two... The two standings stones at Duncarbit - a male and female pair Duncarbit Standing Stones, Antrim, Ireland Image 2013 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Neolithic #photography #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Antrim #landscape

My goat fountain has been co-opted by Shadow.

Loved this at Pompeii: either side of the fountainhead are indentations worn into the stone rim by the hands of people drawing water 2,000 years ago #Roman

Alfred Watkins Arthur’s Stone, Dorston, Green Way Sighted to and Beyond the Mound Black and white photograph, published as fig.14 of Alfred Watkins, The Old Straight Track, Methuen, 1925 Hereford Library no.264

A lichen heart ❤️ among the stones of St David's Head coastal promontory fort last week #valentines 🥰 📷 My own

A day early for #StandingStoneSunday because there’s a lichen heart on this one. The remaining upright stone at Ardnacross on the Isle of Mull.

Arthur's Stone, with a wonderful view of the Welsh mountains, including the Skirrid. The cupmarks on the huge capstone were imprinted by a giant's elbows when he fell under Arthur's sword. #TombTuesday

A recent stones trip to Coldrum long barrow in Kent with @classicalalan.bsky.social - misty, muddy and very atmospheric! This place is 6,000 years old, just so awesome. #StandingStoneSunday

Is it #StandingStoneSunday already?! 😮🥳 Take a spin around the incredible Harold Stone standing stone on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire In 2024, following path erosion, we discovered a rare Bronze Age cobbled platform around it. Browse on @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab: skfb.ly/pvJw8

Fantastic book. If you can vote please do.

Last call for votes for Stone Lands in the Current Archaeology awards - if you liked the book, it would be so fantastic to have your vote … thank you! 🙏🏻❤️🪨 archaeology.co.uk/vote

Digging for Britain on BBC2 this Thursday (5th Feb) at 20:00 hrs includes a feature on our Bronze Age tin archaeological excavations on St Michael's Mount in Cornwall. The programme is already available on BBC iplayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

St Lythan's for #TombTuesday. There is something about this site, it always feels quite eerie. Maybe it's not called the Accursed Field for nothing!

For #TombTuesday... Annaghmare Court Tomb - A view of the court Annaghmare Court Tomb, Armagh, Ireland Image: 2016 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #photography #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Armagh

I had a lovely (if rather damp) day out with the one and only @stonelands.bsky.social on Sunday, during which she introduced me to Coldrum Long Barrow in Kent. Its name is possibly derived from the old Cornish word 'Galdrum' which means 'place of enchantments'. #TombTuesday

This. Book! Sometimes I read a real wonder and this is one. It echoes into my life in so many ways, like a great book would, influencing my current fiction, giving me hope for a nonfiction project of my own, and being deeply personal also. Thank you @stonelands.bsky.social #booksky

For #StandingStoneSunday on St Bride's/Brigid's day, here is the wonderfully twisted (and named) Poit Na H-i stone on Mull, emerging from the ground like a giant granite claw. Happy Imbolc all, spring starts here though it may not yet look like it!

Trethevy Quoit, Cornwall, is a well-preserved portal dolmen, a burial chamber with four upright overlapping granite slabs forming the sides of the chamber and lateral stones at the front and back. These monuments were constructed in the early Neolithic period (3700-3300 BC). #StandingStoneSunday

Kildromalive: Standing stone in a field on the Beara Way above Adrigole, north of the Drumlave stone row, Co. Cork. #StandingStoneSunday A lovely setting with Mount Mass rising behind and sweeping views over the hills. It's about 1.8m (6ft) high, square-ended and chunky.

The Blind Fiddler #StandingStoneSunday

The late Neolithic henge and circle of standing stones known as Bedd Arthur (‘Arthur’s Grave’) in the Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire. Located close to the source which provided Stonehenge with its bluestones. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Pembrokeshire

Castlerigg stone circle in winter. Erected around 5,200 years ago, this stone circle in the Lake District is said to be one of the oldest in the country. #StandingStoneSunday

#StandingStoneSunday - one from the archives.. At the alignments of Carnac, with a chunky sweater, 1989, hiking & bussing my way around the old stones of Brittany

☣️Event Incoming☣️ Join us for Stones, Portals and Bogeymen 13th March, Brighton Pier. Celebrate 25 years of the Megalithic Portal and lots more. Andy B joins with Stone Club, Odditorium & filmmaker Simon Aeppli for an amazing night of darkness and light next month. #StandingStoneSunday More 1/

A storm racing across Crow Sound towards the Innisidgen Upper entrance grave on St Mary's (Scilly) – 30 seconds later and we had all ducked inside ... #TombTuesday

#StandingStoneSunday Mk II 🥰🥳 After 54 years, and a failed attempt last week, I finally made it to the famous Bryn Cader Faner cairn circle in Eryri/Snowdonia this morning 😮 It didn't disappoint 🤩. What an incredible Bronze Age locale! 📷 Today

This is the sturdy Menhir de Piprais near Monterrein in Brittany, France. It stands around 4.5 m tall and is made of quartzite with veins of white quartz. Beside it lies another fallen stone. #StandingStoneSunday

The wonderfully sinister altar-like recumbent stone and flankers at Midmar Kirk (Aberdeenshire) plus the (also quite spooky) stone in the woods nearby #StandingStoneSunday

Some standing stones for #StandingStoneSunday to counter the tidal wave of politics on BlueSky...🫣 One from the archives...cottages & standing stones on a summer's day in 1989 at Le Menec prehistoric alignments, #Carnac, Brittany - cycling & camping in my year off before uni 👌🌞🚲 📷 My own

The Goggleby Stone near Shap for #StandingStoneSunday

Frosti #StandingStoneSunday

A reminder that voting is open for CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGY Book of the Year 2026 - if you liked STONE LANDS please consider voting. Thank you very much! archaeology.co.uk/awards/book-...

Okay just finding out that #tombtuesday exists and I’m already loving it. Sadly I’m in the United States and we can’t have nice things like lovely ancient tombs, or universal healthcare… or a functioning democracy. But I’m glad I found this post because it lifted my spirits a little. 😊

For #TombTuesday... Brownshill Dolmen - A colour version Browneshill Dolmen, Carlow, Ireland Image: 2023 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #photography #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Carlow

Delighted that excellent nonfiction editor at @thebookseller.com , @carosanderson.bsky.social has chosen The Tattooed Hills as one of her Top Ten April books, with blush inducing comments. Preorder link in bio etc. @quartobooksuk.bsky.social

Spinster’s Rock, Devon

Hey Fiona, not sure if you know about this, but there is a LOT of lidar maps freely available online. I am fascinated by how much they can show you. I had no idea of the amount of Neolithic activity in England till I had a look at the maps. Check them out! houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map

I was thinking that *is* his fingernail.

Great image Fiona. My wife and I spent our honeymoon walking the Pembrokeshire Coast and exploring so many amazingly beautiful places. What a stunning country Wales is, steeped in history, music & poetry.

What happens when our experiences of stone blend with the whispers of their creation? Join Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social, author of Stone Lands & me on the 29th Feb 6pm @waterstones.bsky.social Bridport for a trip from deep time to our own. #stonelands #whispersofrock #naturewriting

I'm so sorry ... but I immediately thought of this scene from the "This is Spinal Tap" movie. 🤣

I'm seeing a few Welsh sites this #TombTuesday, so to join in here is lovely Carreg Samson on the Pembrokeshire coast. The huge capstone was put in place by St Samson of Dol, using only his little fingernail ...

Portal. #TombTuesday #WestKennett

#TombTuesday with Tinkinswood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 just west of Cardiff for more of ancient Wales & its Iron Age #Hillforts check out our chat with @drtobydriver.bsky.social here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyYu0J-04Y