📢 New Blog Post How can a rock from hundreds of kilometers away become a stone tool? Dr. Johanna Hilpert explains how HESCOR researchers study prehistoric #networks of interaction and #exchange 🌐🤝 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/f0t5G #Magdalenian #LBK #Modelling

#StandingStoneSunday with the always beautiful Bryn Cader Faner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 For more from Ancient Wales & an easy watch for a sunday morning, we had a chat with Dr Toby Driver about all things Hillforts & Wales, thats here >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyY...

Stenness. Nov 2025. #StandingStoneSunday

Everyone loves a standing stone! Sheep communing with the ancestors at the Stones of Stenness on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday

The Barnhouse Stone on Mainland Orkney, which creates the winter solstice sunset alignment with Maeshowe. From one angle it looks like a paddle. From another angle, it becomes almost spear-like. From any angle: wonderfully crusty and lichenous! #StandingStoneSunday

For anyone looking for Middle Earth in Cymru/Wales 🧙 The ethereal country lane through moss-covered boulders & trees at the edge of Llyn Cwm Bychan, Ardudwy, yesterday 📷 My own

Carreg y Planwydd Helyg (stone of the willow plantation) up in the clouds of Meirionnydd at winter solstice for #StandingStoneSunday

A perfect memory for Winter Solstice. Nether Largie standing stones in Kilmartin, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday #Kilmartin #Scotland #WinterSolstice #pagan #witchsky #animism

Machrie Moor 2 , Isle of #Arran … the surviving large stones range from 3.7m to 4.9m in height … ‘well big’. #StandingStoneSunday More pictures and paintings on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...

#StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... First megalithic of 2026 - Loughguile Standing Stone (Tully North), Antrim, Ireland Image: 2021 Infrared #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Neolithic #Megalithic #Landscape #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Antrim

The outlier of the Nine Stones in the #PeakDistrict. It stands between the main circle, on their shallow mound, and Robin Hood's Stride, an oddly shaped outcrop that may have inspired the building of the circle. (Scanned from a photo I took in 2002.) #StandingStoneSunday #stonecircles #Derbyshire

When times are hard and you need space to breathe, there’s no better companions than Adam and Eve. The Longstones, Beckhampton bit.ly/4ixqQf0 #StandingStoneSunday

For #StandingStoneSunday one of the famous Orkney Standing Stones courtesy of John Moore.

Orkney this summer. What a beautiful place #standingstonesunday

#StandingStoneSunday The Bridestones, nr. Congleton, Cheshire/Staffordshire, UK constructed in the Neolithic period about 3500–2400 BC.It was described in 1764 as being (110 m) long and (11 m) wide, containing three separate compartments, of which only one remains today. (See Alt. For more)

#StandingStoneSunday The Duirinish Stone, Dunvegan, Isle of #Skye, #Scotland and Kilmuir graveyard.

The blocking stone of Challacombe triple stone row #Dartmoor #StandingStoneSunday

Stone and lichen guardians of Machrie Moor, Arran, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday

Maen Llia in the Brecon Beacons, a beautiful stone and one of those that likes to go for a walk #StandingStoneSunday

Avebury Cove stones from a frosty tree. #StandingStoneSunday

For #StandingStoneSunday the magnificent triple stone circles at the Hurlers, Bodmin Moor, #Cornwall, seen here on a frosty January morning in 2024 📷 My own

The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, on a day of blustery winds and rapidly changing weather last November. #StandingStoneSunday

Callanish #StandingStoneSunday

The Baliscate Standing Stones, near Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. The standing stones are one of several prehistoric stone rows on the island. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Mull

The Ring of Brodgar is part of the Orkney Unesco World Heritage Site. It originally had 60 stones, but only 36 survive today. Its diameter is 103.6 metres. #StandingStoneSunday

Laughtor Man With added pony #StandingStoneSunday #Dartmoor

For #StandingStoneSunday, here's the splendidly sinuous King Stone at Rollright in #Oxfordshire Although folklore claims this is a petrified monarch, writhing in agony, the current form of the Bronze Age monolith is due to 19th century souvenir hunters who removed bits 😱 📷 Aug 2022

Old house in the hills above Llyn Bychan in the Rhinogydd range of Eryri/Snowdonia today - a spectacular upland landscape lit by winter sunlight 🌞❄️

Just a standing stone from the summer, high up on the hills above Arthog, Wales

The track from Freedom Wood down to Bix Bottom, and the ruins of St James church. #chilterns

Uguisu-bari floor (Nightingale floor) at Erin-ji temple, Yamanashi, Japan: Uguisu-bari were floors designed to make a chirping sound when walked upon. These squeaking floors were used as a security device, assuring that none could sneak through the corridors undetected in temple and shrine.

Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides #standingstonesunday

Another view of the MacLeod Stone on the Isle of Harris, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday Local legend says it's the hammer of a giant that broke when she tried to smash a limpet! So it's known locally in Gaelic as 'Ord Bhairnich' - limpet hammer 📸 Me #archaeology #photooftheday #folklore 🏺

Morning sun reflecting off the snow on Cadair Idris

Trädet (The tree) (2023) Jeff Olsson The British Museum, London, United Kingdom

The famous Gloucester Cathedral in England.

Yay 🍾 We've made it to #HillfortsWednesday! 🥳 This is the incomparable Craig yr Aderyn (Bird's Rock) inland promontory fort nr Tywyn in Gwynedd on Winter Solstice 2022 🤩🌈 This stunning, complex fort is one of my Top Ten sites to visit in Wales in 'Hillforts of Wales' 😉 📚 📷 My own

A new fabulous book has just arrived in the post - and it does look REALLY fabulous 🤩

Winter oaks #thicktrunktuesday #trees #woodland #treeclub

Coldrum long barrow – people buried their dead here 6,000 years ago and it's still drawing us to visit and leave flowers today. #TombTuesday

Thank heavens it's #TombTuesday 🥳💀 Does anyone remember the blistering heat 🔥 of summer? One of the very few cool places in Somerset last August was the dark interior of the magnificent Stoney Littleton long barrow 🥰 Very fortunate to have had this sacred space all to myself 🫠 📷My own

Joyous bog cotton dancing on Cadair Idris on a sunny day last May

A beautiful Kit Boyd etching.

I think Kit Boyd is one of the most underrated artists in the universe right now. I truly don't understand why people aren't yelling about his prolific psychedelic brilliance from the rooftops. www.greenwichprintmakers.co.uk/kit-boyd

Kit Boyd • The Sacred Grove • night Venticelli •

Kit Boyd (UK b. 1969) The Way Through the Woods - Warm Springs hand colored etching and aquatint on paper.

washed right up on the beach nearby

Lovely archaeology & heritage opportunities on South Ronaldsay. Two seasonal rangers and a site manager. 🏺

Start of the working week and Munnin is back at their post

Free on our open library. All the works we undertook in an attempt to find somewhere to build the new visitor facilities at Stonehenge. wessexarchaeologylibrary.org/plugins/book...