Annoyed by headlines such as: "The surprising origins of Britain's Bronze Age immigrants revealed" without links to the actual study? I've linked to the free to access data. www.sarsen.org/2026/02/unve...

More thoughts on the possibility of Stonehenge Bluestone haulage by oxen - www.sarsen.org/2026/02/a-sp...

Someone put a rock in the way of the sunset

A February afternoon on Salisbury Plain

Was the Wansdyke a Neolithic Canal? - I give a short and a long answer: www.sarsen.org/2026/02/was-...

Stukeley's 1730 Bible sold today at auction - lots of marginalia, written as he developed his dating theories of Stonehenge, a foundational document in the development of prehistoric studies in Britain. www.sarsen.org/2026/01/will...

The shareable Historic England photograph of Richard Atkinson under Stone 55b needs rotating so I created a freely shareable drawing as it should be. Not a recommended archaeological technique.

In October 2024 I discovered photos of enigmatic engravings on the Stonehenge Altar Stone in the English Heritage archive - I have just created three drawings of them which are free to use with acknowledgment. Link in comments.

In archaeology the phrase "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" is often used to excuse fence-sitting. In a Bayesian framework, absence of evidence is evidence of absence to the precise degree that evidence would have been expected had the claim been true. www.sarsen.org/2026/01/abse...

I didn’t expect to be posting about Stonehenge now but a new paper with yet more against the case for Salisbury Plain glaciers has been published. It prompted me to look at a discussion about sarsen last year which I missed. So here’s a thread about Stonehenge megalith sources /1

Marginalia in a @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social book: "Learn still and let thy mind be fed For without learning life itself is dead" There seems to a couple of more lines in pencil and the date 1567 - intriguing and still true.

Stonehenge bluestones, it was humans not ice that brought them. A new geological analysis. www.sarsen.org/2026/01/grai...

The Stonehenge Diet - America catches up with the Neolithic www.sarsen.org/2026/01/the-...

The non-symbolic symbol on the Long Barrow door this morning, the passageway is aligned to midwinter sunrise.

Cattle standing around lowing when the Angel of the Lord came down may not be strictly historically or theologically accurate, but I like the photo. Happy Christmas.

My own photo (2012) and Bill Brandt's (1947)

Stonehenge Just got a LOT weirder.... 🎥NEW VIDEO🎥

Winter Solstice Sunset at Stonehenge

The north chamber of the All Cannings Long Barrow

It may be the greatest Christmas album ever, but having Phil Spector's cassette stuck in the tractor, so it won't eject, means I rather tire of it over the year.

I ran the numbers, the proposed High Post wind turbine wouldn't even power a kettle when they need the power the most. development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/web-com...

Stonehenge’s solstice alignments clockface: Midsummer sunrise at 12, midwinter sunset at 6. Altar Stone skewed along the chord from 15 min to 42 min, exactly 81°, midwinter sunrise. Central trilithon parallel chord. 60-point outer circle embeds both solstice directions with simple lines. Sarsen.org

#HillfortsWednesday Vespasian's Camp - 1940 Luftwaffe Photo, other monuments may also be visible. catalog.archives.gov/id/220883260

Links to Kat Ward's work on the Absent Dead in the neolithic. We only know of 298 bodies within the modern county boundary of Wiltshire over four centuries, 3800–3400 BC. www.sarsen.org/2025/12/the-...

Knap Hill and katabatic flow of frozen air into the Pewsey Vale

Winter Solstice Sunrise at Adam's Grave, Wiltshire. Fantastic view and alignment.

I was lucky enough to see Spinal Tap playing at Stonehenge, all directed by Rob Reiner. I hope the concert film, due out in the spring, is seen as a fitting tribute to him.

Wiltshire Council's planned wind turbine will stick up like a sore thumb when looking south from Woodhenge, most of the mast will be visible as well as the blades. (Stonehenge isn't the only important monument) Planning Application PL/2025/06175

An elevation plan shows that Wiltshire Council's proposed Wind Turbine at High Post (PL/2025/06175) will expose Stonehenge to the distracting sight of the flashing tips of the blades. Completely ignoring the Council's WHS Setting Study and Core Policy 59, what a joke.

Wiltshire Council want to erect a wind turbine at High Post, the tips of the blades will be 24 m high, I believe this will be easily visible from Stonehenge - link to application for details and to comment. development.wiltshire.gov.uk/pr/s/plannin...

Woodhenge was, I think, a circle of inverted trees. It is the idea that links Seahenge and Stonehenge - www.sarsen.org/2025/12/wood...

Top tip, explaining how Brussel Sprouts grow in Fibonacci spirals will make you the life and soul of any Christmas party.

This unassuming hand-forged wrought-iron drain grate in Devizes is a tiny masterpiece of Georgian/Victorian street furniture. Quietly doing its job for 200+ years. It deserves to be listed on the Local Heritage List.

I'm a fire starter, twisted fire starter; "Earliest evidence of making fire" www.nature.com/articles/s41... World’s oldest fireplaces – in Suffolk mikepitts.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/w...

The Durrington Walls Pits - re-interpreted. The Heffalump Trap Hypothesis. www.sarsen.org/2025/12/re-i...

Wonderful book - Stonehenge chapter today, continuing through the week. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Winter Solstice sunrise at All Cannings Long Barrow youtube.com/watch?v=BSF-...

New Archæoastronomy course launched for anyone, taught by experts, online with lots of options. www.sarsen.org/2025/12/skys...

Ciborowski & Nash's arithmetic method for geochemical sourcing reaffirms West Woods as Stonehenge's sarsen heartland—and extends the method to bluestone dolerites. A game-changer for Neolithic quarrying tales? www.sarsen.org/2025/12/cibo...

Maud Cunnington new photos www.sarsen.org/2025/11/maud...

Dawn at All Cannings Long Barrow

A massive report on archaeology in the Stonehenge Landscape from @wessexarch based on the sites investigated for a Visitor Centre. www.sarsen.org/2025/11/the-...

Pareidolia anyone?

Frosty morning at the Long Barrow

The All Cannings Long Barrow will be open on the morning of Saturday 20th December: 7:45 am - 9:00 am for visits and worship. Sunrise is at 8.05am. Everybody welcome of all faiths or none. There is no pressure to take part in the Public Worship

The pits are the pits - Gaffney et al claim the Durrington Wall anomalies are neolithic features - www.sarsen.org/2025/11/the-...

@wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social "Stuart Piggott planning the position of a stone in the North West quadrant of the stone circle, Avebury, Wiltshire, 1936." Is the other figure Dorothy Liddell? Guessing from images on hemburyfort.co.uk/gallery.html

Two fascinating 1918 aerial photo albums, and lots of crashed planes. Hackpen White Horse, Wiltshire. kresenkernow.org/SOAP/search/...

My review of Amanda Chadburn and Clive Ruggles' book Stonehenge: Sighting the Sun has been published in @royalarchinst.bsky.social Archaeological Journal. Let me know if you want to read it but don't have institutional access; I've got some free 'offprint' links: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NJ7DZ...

An archaeological failure in the Avebury WHS - action is needed. The experimental Overton earthwork's scheduled excavation is very overdue. www.sarsen.org/2025/11/the-...