For #StandingStoneSunday, here is a 1920s self-portrait by Oscar Färdig, a rural autodidact photographer, my great great grandmother's brother. He is standing by the great Iron Age menhirs of Stenehed (appropriately meaning "Stone Heath", likely refering to the monuments). ⚱️

The Fingers of Gurannes, Co Cork, Ireland. #StandingStoneSunday

Augerum Menhir standing stone in Sweden in Blekinge. The Stone is in the garden of a church. Augerum Church is located next to the Lyckebyån river. It is assumed that the church was built next to stone or the stone was rather moved here from its original place. #StandingStoneSunday

Bedd Arthur, Mynydd Preseli, Sir Penfro 📷 18.04.23 #StandingStoneSunday #scape #Stunday #LandscapePhotography #PhotographersofBlueSky

The Tibblestone, an ancient pitted stone on a crossroads near Tewkesbury on a garage forecourt. Lost and found buried by a gardener in 1948. One of Gloucestershire’s very few standing stones. #StandingStoneSunday #UrbanPrehistory

Something similar above Barmouth wedged into a crack in the bedrock. This one above Wern Mynach, Hendre Mynach and Ffordd Mynach. Mynach is Monk in Welsh !

Boundary marker or something else ? High above the Mawddach on Garn fach Cwm Mynach side. Could be work by Cymmer abbey Cistercian monks ? #standingstonesunday

#StandingStoneSunday with the Nine Ladies Stone Circle in the Peak District, Derbyshire See more in our new epiosde >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ta4...

‘That thrush just did something incredible’: tuning in to bird calls on a North York Moors walk

Wonderfull indeed. But why are these in the Villa? Ultimately "....from the private collection of a British rare manuscript collector." And how did that collector .... ??? I broke of my visit to the Villa early because I realised that most was "looted" in concession of rich people. It sickned me.

Nant Cadair, Cadair Idris National Nature Reserve 📷 03.03.26 #WaterfallWednesday #scape #LandscapePhotography #PhotographersofBluesky

Observing #blackandwhite #B&W #Photography #photo #bwphotography #bnwphotography #monochrome #mono

If I were a Hollywood superstar, I would go and check this exhibition out: “One of my favorite phrases that I have on a wall of the gallery is ‘May I join with the stars that call out to me in the night boat,’” laist.com/news/los-ang...

🏺 A lovely piece, making me think both of #Neanderthal -bird interactions and how they may have understood signals for when and where birds would appear; and also summoning Bronze Age visual echoes of ducks in marshy landscapes from Akrotiri and Egypt.

This Week! On Age of Stonehenge! All the different ways in which this image is wrong, the development of the Chacolithic Britain, defined not just by metalworking but migrations of Beaker-associated groups and interactions with local people who are in the middle of a massive monument binge.

The frontispiece to Ethel Skeat's textbook The Principles of Geography, Physical & Human (1923). Not sure if school geography textbooks still have frontispieces, but, if they do, they probably don't depict Yggdrasil, Nidhögg, 'the little squirrel Ratatösk', 'the great Midgard serpent', etc.

🏺 Humans: "Decorate* ALL THE THINGS!!" *there's aesthetic beautification, but markings & their makings always hold potential for 'magics' as well

Have got to stop finding books on Bookfinder that just look completely fabulous when I’m meant to be writing up…

#DailyMegalith #StandingStoneSunday Ollie at the Watchstone, #Stenness #Orkney #Scotland (2018) 🏺

March Hares! ‘I shall go into a hare’…. Painted, engraved stained glass, private collection.

In honour of #StDavidsDay here are the wonderful Penbryn Spoons, which were found in 1829 beneath a heap of stones inside the Castell Nadolig hillfort, near Penbryn in Ceredigion, Wales. The pair of cast bronze ‘spoons’ date to the Late Iron Age (c. 50 BCE–100 CE).

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus i chi gyd

For #StandingStoneSunday today - the tallest menhir from the alignements at St-Pierre-Quiberon (Morbihan) known as The Great Monk from its distinctive outline. Just over 20 menhirs remain from rows which originally stretched out into the Bay of Quiberon. Card by Henri Laurent in Port-Louis 1905.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Here's the great Maen Llia menhir, waiting out the millennia high in the Brecon Beacons since the late Neolithic. With a windswept and rainswept human for scale. #StandingStoneSunday

Another view of Legananny Dolmen, Down, Ireland Photographed in digital infrared, July 2014 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #megalithic #Neolithic #Infrared #B&W #Black&White #Monochrome #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #Down

Standing with Stones I've had a longstanding fascination with ancient religious sites in Britain, and I've decided that this year I'm going to be working on new images inspired by them. In November I showed my new etching and aquatint The Migrants (shown below) at Adam's Gallery in Reigate in an…

Wayland's Smithy from The Ridgeway

High-income countries, home to just 15% of the world's population, emit 34% of global CO2—more than twice their share. They use 6x more resources and generate 10x the climate impact of low-income ones. Overconsumption, not population, drives this inequality. #EnvironmentalDegradation

Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales. Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales 😮 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

The heart-quickening sight of an old friend. #SilburyHill - the largest prehistoric mound in Europe. A Neolithic monument I once spent a year inside. It is a mass of ancient matter, and quicksilver - substantial, heavy, brilliant, yet can’t be pinned down. #Neolithic

New research: Paleolithic artifacts hint at earliest protowriting Geometric shapes on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory suggest early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language. www.science.org/content/arti...

Always thought ‘The Scream’ setting was a boat… wrong again

Once again...

Foliose lichen in the fading light dripping off bare thorn trees at dusk below the bright dot of Jupiter and a quarter moon.

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

#TombTuesday - a quiet morning at Callanish before the tourists arrive in June 2024, with my cycling buddies giving me a moment.. Marvelling at the miniature chambered tomb which sits at the heart of the stone circles & alignments, crammed between the tallest central stones 😮 📷 My own

#TombTuesday rare Neolithic tomb art from a Welsh passage grave: multiple spiral motifs inside the Boyne Valley-style cruciform chambers of Barclodiad y Gawres in Ynys Môn/Anglesey 📷 My own, winter 2023

The remains of Cairn Holy II - one of two Neolithic chambered cairns which overlook Wigtown Bay in Dumfries & Galloway. The Clyde-type chambered cairn was traditionally thought to be the tomb of Caldus, the mythical Scottish King. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Archaeology

Barpa Langais - a Neolithic chambered cairn on North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The single entrance cairn is about 25 metres in diameter, and dates to around 3000 BC. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #NorthUist

Dolmen of Soto (Andalusia, #Spain) Discovered in 1922, Dolmen de Soto is located in the municipality of Trigueros (Huelva), Iberia. Constructed between the Neolithic and Bronze Age ( 3000-2500 BCE). #TombTuesday #Archaeology

The week hasn't really started without #TombTuesday 🥳💀 Here is the magnificent Arthur's Stone Neolithic tomb above Dorstone in Herefordshire before the more recent excavations began. This important tomb once sat at the heart of a prehistoric monument complex 📷 My own, 2021

Carreg Coetan, Trefdraeth / Newport, Sir Penfro / Pembrokeshire, Wales 📷 05.04.22 #TombTuesday #RockinTuesday #ClassicMono #BlackandWhite #BlancoYNegro #BlackandWhitePhotography

A windy but sunny hordron edge stone circle some wonderful views this morning #standingstonesunday

Mayburgh: 3 #StandingStoneSunday

#StandingStoneSunday with the beautiful Assycombe stone row, Dartmoor see more from Dartmoor in our new episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-6...

#DailyMegalith #StandingStoneSunday The Ford stone, aka Loch Awe stone, nr #Kilmartin #ArgyllandBute #Scotland (2012) 🏺

Early morning drive up into the hills to feed a neighbour’s chickens which passed this odd and old spooky track (not for motorsport vehicles). I always wonder about it because it has big stone walls on both sides and only runs for a few 100m and there’s an easier alternative route… a mystery

Eye inlays from an Egyptian coffin 👀 The frame is made of bronze, the eye of calcite and obsidian. Dating ca 1500-1200 BC. On display at Staatliches Museum für Ägyptische Kunst. 📷 me 🏺

La galerie du temps, c’est un immense espace gratuit (si, si) où les œuvres sont organisées de manières chronologiques et thématiques. On commence par le néolithique (ici la statue-menhir du Mas Capelier, v. -3000 avant notre ère) 2/