England’s tallest standing stone, the Rudston monolith, photographed 4 years ago at sunset. #StandingStoneSunday

First butterfly of the year, a peacock on gorse. Photo taken 22nd Feb 2026, St Cleer. Can’t decide if it was hiding its fourth eye or if this was a mutation/aberration. #Cornwall #Butterflies #Insects @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Chûn quoit from last year’s Penwith trip, in between some very wintry storms. #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

A very ruined ‘what appears to be the remains of some sort of cairn’ according to @megalithic.bsky.social . The Dolmen de la Pointe de Lost Marc’h. #StandingStoneSunday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh @kateullman.bsky.social and I visited this windswept headland 2 years ago today.

Today’s cycling accompaniment (28 minutes indoors as part of my recovery at a moderate easy pace). As discovered from @thequietus.com ‘s always inspirational Rum music column. Wonderful #Music #MusicSky #Injury

Today’s cycling accompaniment (for next 2 weeks, doing 20-30 minutes indoors as part of my recovery at a moderate easy pace). #Music #MusicSky #Injury

Pentre Ifan from Halloween 2024, doing its almost levitating capstone bit. A wonderful illusion that must have been part of its grandeur. #TombTuesday

Interesting gate post at the edge of Crow’s nest #Cornwall. I assume this was some sort of barrier to the tinner’s works here, and that’s what the holes were for. Not on the Cornwall HER. A faux menhir, but a nice one. #StandingStoneSunday

Less than 8 weeks after my knee op (after snapping my patella tendon - the right knee), crutches and braces are gone and I’m allowed on the indoor bike. Not yet comfortable but remarkable progress and keeps me on track for a return to running in June. 💪🦵💪 #Running #Injury #RunSky

Immaculate Pawton quoit, one of the forgotten quoits of #Cornwall as it’s not the easiest to access, but with it’s huge quartz veined capstone, it’s very impressive #StandingStoneSunday

Shout out to one of the most diverse and interesting labels in the UK, Hive mind records . Finally got around to buying some of their latest releases (Yara Asmar’s tintabulating ‘everyone I love is sleeping’ + Wolfgang Perez’s uneasy tropicalian ‘so ouco’). Both superb… #MusicSky #CurrentListening

Managed to make it up Largin hill fort, for the first time, difficult given current immobility, but worth it. 2 days left before the brace comes off. Incredible place will look to return in summer when more mobile #Cornwall #FoweyValley #Trees #Rainforest #Hiking

Feel exactly the same @support.bsky.team please make configurable. And while you’re here, on Top + Latest tabs, greater weighting in Top to today’s postings. Weekly threads like #StandingStoneSunday #TombTuesday show old postings and lack engagement. Xitter did this well before MechaHitler ran amok.

Roman bathhouse tiles/paving from Le Hogolo Thermes at Plestin-les-Grèves Love how each villa/baths has its own style. #TilesOnTuesday

I can’t help thinking that this truly epic thread about a bus driver going rogue has some unfortunate parallels with where the US currently finds itself…

The truly epic Ile Carn tumulus, one that can only be reached, on foot, at low tide. #TombTuesday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

Sometimes the menhir dots on French maps turn out to be hard to find and very ruined. This, the Allée couverte de Kerivalan near Gouarec in #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh radiating a ‘dark woodland’ energy (actually in brash by a ploughed field). But let that illusion be for #StandingStoneSunday

A Stinky Sticta (I think it’s a Sylvatica? ) I discovered while coppicing in October last year and it changed the whole plan as we had to start haloing around the willow with these specimens on. #FungiFriday #Moss #Lichen #Cornwall #GolithaFalls

While being mainly housebound while healing post -op, I have been making good inroads into my TBR pile (this is about a fifth of it!) Tokarczuk’s, Flights is excellent but tough reading about a surgeon who dissects his own amputated leg, when my own leg still gets quite sore if I overdo it #BookSky

One of the Geants de Kerzeho on the Erdeven megalithic trail, a six metre plus monster. #StandingStoneSunday

Always felt many of the women artists of the St Ives school or loosely associated to it, were as/more interesting than their male counterparts. First film of 2026 - Mark Cousins makes a great case for Wilhemina Barns Graham in this lovely doc www.barns-grahamtrust.org.uk/a-sudden-gli...

A mile away from me (so was an awkward jaunt on my crutches and brace) is the Witheystone. Recorded on old St Cleer Parish tithe maps, 200 years old+ and marked as a possible menhir on the HER, at a former crossroads (now T junction). Wonder if lichens can help date? #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday

Traditional 1st Jan #WildflowerHunt looking for early blooms. Injury not withstanding, knee flexion of max allowed 60 degrees, in crutches and brace for 3 miles. Still managed 7 species wild strawberry, lesser celandine, red campion, hogweed, daisy, dandelion and snowdrops #WildflowerHour #Cornwall

Yesterday, the physio unlocked my brace so I can quote ‘start learning to walk again’. This year before disaster struck I ran in some pretty amazing places, and here are photos taken mid run in Roscoff, Prague, Karlovy Vary and up the 800m+ Burgstein. Hope to be back soon #Running #Injury #RunSky

The Dolmens de Mané Braz on the Chemin des Megalithes, Erdeven (near Carnac of course) #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh . A lot more of these cycling/walking/running trails are springing up in France, linking up loads of prehistoric sites, which can only be a very good thing. #TombTuesday

Out for only my 3rd walk post op, more confident now,but being careful not to overdo it. #GolithaFalls #Cornwall #Running #Injury

The huge Saint Uzec menhir, near Lannion, #Brittanny #Bretagne #Breizh, christianised in 1674 and put in a little enclosure but there is no taming the visceral power of this one. It’s over 6 metres high and must have a circumference of several metres. #StandingStoneSunday

This has seen better days ! #FingerpostFriday signpost near Golitha falls, #Cornwall. Only take this one in dry weather, as it leads straight 200 metres of marsh. Hope to do it again one day, once the knee has recovered from its recent surgery. (Snapped patella tendon) #Running #Injury

There must be a little bit of dust in the air here... Happy Christmas x www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brane barrow in Penwith #Cornwall on Valentines Day 2023. What better way to spend the day than ancient monument sightseeing? This one will definitely impress your partner, small Scillonian type entrance grave, in an excellent state of preservation. #TombTuesday

A creative #TombTuesday image of Trethevy Quoit in cross stitch. One of my sons has learnt to do this and made it into a Christmas card!

Happy solstice! This is Long Tom on #BodminMoor #Cornwall from one winter where there was an absolutely incredible sunset (although taken on February 2023, not on the solstice itself). #StandingStoneSunday

The Dolmen Ouest de la Croix de Saint-Pierre, part of the St Just/alignments de Cojoux. This was restored in the 1990s, and the heather and shrubs are now making themselves at home in 2025. #StandingStoneSunday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

On #StandingStoneSunday I posted the Prajou-Menhir menhir on a small presqu’ile north of Lennon and today it’s the turn of the accompanying Prajou-Menhir allée couverte, which boasts a fabulous set of carvings and rock art in its final chamber. #TombTuesday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

The Prajou-Menhir menhir is embedded in a bank or field boundary next to the Allée couverte de Prajou-menhir (one for Tomb Tuesday), the last monument visited on my October trip to France. #StandingStoneSunday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

Trethevy Quoit for #TombTuesday

This week saw an excellent talk on Moonlit monuments by Carolyn Kennett for #Cornwall Archaeological Society (CAS) about the role moonlight might have played in their materials and use. Immediately I thought Duloe circle. Not in moonlight but sunset certainly elevates the quartz #StandingStoneSunday

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