The menhir de Kergoarat near the plage de Cam-Louis, a seven metres high monolith looking out to see on a grey October day. #StandingStoneSunday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

The roadside and beachside Keryvon Allée couverte. Resembling a dolmen, but according to @megalithic.bsky.social it’s a truncated Allée, with further stones in the scrub. Impossible to do the Tregastel coastal scenery justice as the road is too dangerous. #TombTuesday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

An unidentified Viking ship- shaped stone circle, Sweden, from over a decade (more like 13-14 years) ago. I remember we drove past a fair few and jumping out the car to see. We did visit Ales Stenar and Kiviksgraven do it could have been on the way to either. #StandingStoneSunday

The Porz ar Streat menhir near Plouescat in #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh. This menhir is on the edge of a farmyard where refrigerator lorries are slowly rotting and electric fenced off, which slightly detracts from its ambience. #StandingStoneSunday

The beached allée couverte of Guinivrit at low tide in #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh It might have lost all its capstones but it remains a unique and captivating site #StandingStoneSunday

The partially submerged Er Lannic stone circle, on a private island, that can’t be visited and can only be seen by boat. Sea birds have reclaimed this haunting site and perch atop the menhir on the skyline. Photo taken on my birthday this year. #StandingStoneSunday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

Been involved with a couple of moth trapping events at Golitha Falls, and it’s always a multitude of yellow underwings and not much else. Yesterday sitting at the base of the tree where previous displays have been hosted was this jaw dropping Death’s head hawk moth. #Teammoth #mothsmatter #Cornwall

Men Gurta (St Breock downs monolith) on a cloudy day in 2023. #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

The magnificent Buttern Hill cist, part of a Bronze Age cemetery across the hillside, with magnificent views to Bronn Wennili (Cornwall’s highest point). #Cornwall #BodminMoor #StandingStoneSunday

The Dol de Bretagne, which, legend has it, appeared in the height of a battle where two brothers met and fought, when it rose up between and separated them. There does seem to have been a battle near here in 560 CE between father and son. #StandingStoneSunday #Folklore #Bretagne #Breizh #Brittany

Not often I get to post #HillFortsWednesday but with an EV need a charge what better excuse to nip up Brent Knoll, to walk the ramparts and see across to Bannau Brycheiniog / Brecon Beacons 79 miles away on a gorgeous early autumn day.

When is a standing stone not an ancient standing stone? When English Heritage use it to denote the place of origin of the bluestones of Stonehenge in the Preseli mountains! Although this isn’t on top of Carn Menyn or Carn Goeddog even more confusingly. But it is a nice #StandingStoneSunday

Not an ancient #StandingStoneSunday but an old gatepost on a footpath that passes one of Bodmin Moor’s remotest farms (which I believe is occasionally inhabited and also not for sale) and not on anything remotely resembling a road or semi-paved track. #Cornwall #BodminMoor

The Pipers taken on the day after winter solstice sunrise in 2022 (wouldnt be able to get near them on the solstice itself) These are the two outliers, next to the Hurlers circles, Minions #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

@octopus.energy hey - I paid for an EV charger over a week ago and you are refusing to give me an installation date . Customer service said you’d get back this week with a date but haven’t. Either give me money back or give me date (I don’t mind long waiting lists). #PoorCustonerService

The Christianised menhir of Brignogan Plage, always a wonder. Lovely to see new interpretation boards nearby but they were rather blighted by the AI ‘photos’ of menhirs and dolmens on them. Doesn’t Brittany have enough monuments to use real photos? #StandingStoneSunday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

At the end (or beginning) of Erdeven’s wonderful megalithic walking trail, amongst some much more well known sites is the Dolmen de Botlann, nestled in a small housing estate. #TombTuesday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh #UrbanPrehistory

Spotted this vestal moth, lurking in the grass of a freshly cut meadow today in noonday sun. A bit of a beauty. #Moths #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #Cornwall

For #StandingStoneSunday it’s time to revisit the striking quartz stones of Duloe. Since its recent acquisition by Cornwall Heritage Trust, the surrounding grass is now uncut, and the hedge behind removed, allowing the circle to breathe and, by letting wildlife back, giving it atmosphere. #Cornwall

The ones I haven’t seen (ie everything apart from Stalker) all sound amazing!

The magnificent Dolmen de Crucuno nestled against a house as if they were somehow built at the same time. #TombTuesday #Bretagne #Brittany #Breizh #Megalith

Throwback to the original #MegalithicMonday tag. Here is some rock art, the engraving of an axe at the end of the Allée couverte of Mougau Bihan in #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

Brignogan plage’s ‘other’ menhir. Anywhere else this would be the starring megalithic attraction, at just under 8 metres. With Men ar Marz’s 8m plus and cross just down the road, menhir de menoignon must play second fiddle! #StandingStoneSunday #Bretagne #Brittany #Breizh

Let’s have a riot of colour…. #Butterflies #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #Insects #NatureSky (all taken this week in #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh). And instant follow for anyone recognising the lyric….

Picked up this wonderful #Brittany #butterfly atlas and French names are so much better than ours. Pictured: Spanish tobacco (tabac d’Espagne), coral necklace (collier de corail) and flambé! Looking out for half sorrows, vulcans and Robert the Devil! #Insects #NatureSky @savebutterflies.bsky.social

For #TombTuesday the dolmen Mané-Groh (the sorceress’s hill) one of many sites on the recently(ish) created (2019?) Sentier de Megaliths in Erdeven near Carnac, #Brittany. The funeraire coffre (sarcophagus/cist?) next to it is an older monument! #Bretagne #Breizh

At last a #StandingStoneSunday where I’ve been able to replenish my album of sites with new photos of mine! These are the alignments de Moulin at the Saint-Just in #Brittany taken last Tuesday, exactly 5 years to the day since I last visited them. #Bretagne #Breizh #Menhirs

Amazing article, and I bet there is plenty more to discover yet

#TombTuesday A late entry, but having just returned from the ‘Sistine chapel of the Neolithic’ aka Cairn de Gavrinis, on my b’day, I’m hopefully forgiven. Quite frankly amazing, one of Europe’s finest prehistoric monuments . #Bretagne #Brittany #Breizh #NeolithicArt

And while it’s #BigButterflyCount let’s not forget moths. These happened to either blunder into my house or turn up on my butterfly searches, no special equipment needed. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #MothsMatter #Cornwall #NatureSky

As it’s #BigButterflyCount , here’s a selection of some of the butterflies in and around the Golitha Falls transect. 2025 has already massively eclipsed 2024, and looks to be better than 2023 on my survey numbers. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Cornwall #Butterflies #NatureSky

A dingy footman moth and a ruby tiger moth larvae from our little patch of wildflower meadow in St Cleer churchyard, a green leafhopper (Cicadella veridis) and a field digger wasp (or fly wolf) on our kitchen window. #Insects #mothsmatter #Cornwall #NatureSky

Marbled whites aren’t rare, but very localised in #Cornwall Having walked the dog 8 years through this unkept field, and never seen 1, was startled to see 5 or 6. We’re Sx24Sw68, the Cornwall butterfly atlas shows none recorded here 09-18 and only some nearly adjacent in 76-08. #Butterflies #Insects

A Rosy footman seemed a propitious portent for the solstice. @kateullman.bsky.social (who has better photos) and I had Bodmin moor’s finest circle (Goodaver) to ourselves. We were just lamenting the cloud covering the horizon when… #solstice #Cornwall #Teammoth #insects nearly #StandingStoneSunday

Two butterflies and two moths who checked in this week, while I was busy doing other things. First ringlet of the year, a white ermine moth, a small angle shades moth and a comma. #TeamMoth #Insects #Butterflies #Cornwall

Father’s Day walk, with some great wildlife. Delighted to see my first scarlet tiger moth this year, loads of spotted longhorn beetles, the return of a greater butterfly orchid to St Cleer common, and a brand centurion (soldier fly). #NatureSky #TeamMoth #Insects #Cornwall #Wildflowers

My continuing search for purple hairstreak caterpillars at Golitha Falls failed again, but found plenty of other interesting sights! 1/2 #biofluorescence #teammoth #naturesky @stcleerenvgroup.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social

The Japanese garden of Hana Balz in Karlovy Vary in Czechia, the upright stones being ‘analogous to European menhirs’, although the whole garden has a cairn like feel. #StandingStoneSunday

A silver thread runs between these two found this week lurking in sites I’ve helped manage as a volunteer in East Cornwall. On the left a brown silver line moth and on the right a silver ground-carpet moth. #TeamMoth #MothMonday #Insects #MothsMatter

When not doing an interview for Radio Prague about my grandfather (see my previous post), I found the time to go running up to the Vyšehrad in Prague, discovering 3 of 5 standing stones of differing ages. This, the Rotunda stone, comes from a rock type found at least 60km away. #StandingStoneSunday

This is a Radio Prague interview my half sister Sally and I did on learning of our grandfather’s actions after World War 2, how he witnessed a massacre of Sudeten Germans + how he and volunteers relocated + resettled 80,000+ anti-fascist refugees english.radio.cz/anti-fascist... #80Years #NeverAgain

What a beauty! Swallowtail in Czechia earlier this week. Never seen one in the UK. #Insects #SaveButterflies #NatureSky

2 pieces youshould read side by side today - first fantastic piece from @jameskanag.bsky.social on importance of volunteering/associational life. 2nd a BBC report on the cancellation of 150 year old Shrewsbury Flower Show & Margaret's quote about what it means to her www.thetimes.com/article/d86f...

The wonderful little Dolmen de Restriguiou, near Plomeur. Cleared/maintained by a local group, and easily accessible off the busy D785. #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh #TombTuesday

It’s my third year walking the Golitha Falls transect, counting butterflies. Yeaterday’s count already equalled the best of last years (low) high summer totals. Also en route more oil beetles than I’ve seen before. Cautiously optimistic that 2025 > 2024. #Insects #Butterflies #NatureSky

The Kermario dolmen in the Kermario alignments at Carnac, taken last year on Valentine’s Day, not long before we got soaked. #TombTuesday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

Louden Hill circle is overshadowed by its more illustrious and better preserved neighbours (Stannon and Fernacre), but still worth fighting the bog and marsh grass to find. #StandingStoneSunday #Cornwall #BodminMoor

Pawton Quoit, one of Cornwall’s lesser known quoits (partly because not that easy to access). A mammoth capstone on quartz streaked supports (which are very much akin to St Breocks down menhir which is nearby). #Cornwall #TombTuesday

The sun brought out the insects today. A harlequin ladybird (managed not to photo the head Doh!) a peacock and one of the fantastic colony of bloody nosed beetles at the end of our street. #Insects #nature #Cornwall

Tregarrick menhir, with Tregarrick Tor in the background. There are a couple of lone standing stones on this part of Bodmin moor. #StandingStoneSunday #Cornwall #BodminMoor