Gavrinis is the most amazing megalithic site I have been privileged to visit. Taking a boat to reach, you encounter a remarkable concentration of #Neolithic rock art at a single megalithic monument. A deeply powerful & inspiring place. @megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday

The Er-Grah tumulus at Locmariaquer, Brittany. Beginning as a cairn in the fifth milennium BCE, it was eventually finished with a capstone c. 3,300 BCE. #TombTuesday 📷 Personal photo, June 2023

Yannis Tsarouchis, “Dionysus Drunk”

Henry doing his best impression of a centrepiece.

Pan was a member of the ‘thiasus,’ the retinue of Dionysus, when the god of wine and ecstasy invaded India. Known for inducing panic in the camps of his enemies, Pan acquitted himself honourably in the campaign, according to Nonnus. #MythologyMonday 🎨 Pan and Dionysus on the ‘Lycurgus Cup’

If you live in the UK, you can now pre-order 'Stories of the Stones' directly from Reaktion Books or your favourite bookseller. Publication date is 1 February, 2026! Pre-order here: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/stories...

Sheep grazing among the stones at Avebury, July 2023. #StandingStoneSunday

The Long Neolithic provides an ongoing infrastructure of wonder. Its portal tombs become gates to mystery. Its mounds barrows and circles infect our imaginations, demand we riddle them. Our archaeology is an amplifier of awe, not an eraser. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Watched this Irish folk horror last night, mainly because Ian Lynch of Lankum did the soundtrack. An eerie and disturbing film.

RIP Tony Harrison. His poems were a touchstone for me as a young aspiring writer. I had the privilege to meet him in person in 1994 when I was working at a literary festival in Toronto.

The land is long memory. The land is layers of story. Its ghost soil cracks and releases spirits. Our navigations across it will always bring encounters with the strange. – #CLNolan

This is an amazing book on the Irish landscape and its relationship to myth, but it’s so much more; it opens the door on other ways of inhabiting the world.

“If you just look at the archaeology of our top early medieval monasteries, Portmahomack stands out as exceptionally literate and book-orientated … the Book of Kells is actually an exceptionally Pictish-looking manuscript.” #MedievalSky

Are the Rollrights the stones with the most folklore of all? (Arthur Evans said they were …) On Fri Oct 3rd I’ll be at the Lincoln Book Festival discussing the stories of stones with @katecherrell.bsky.social, part of a fab folkloric eve! Tickets here!: lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/fantas...

Hookland is a county of window altars, sill shrines. Transparent declarations for the folkloric forces. This house for the King-Under-the-Sea, this house for the Empress Eel. Those panes roosted by crows proclaim for the cunning and a belief in folk faith magics. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982

According to Pausanias, the citizens of Troezen gave Pan the title of ‘Releaser’ after he appeared to them in a dream with a remedy releasing them them from the plague devastating their city. #WorldDreamDay 🎨Parian marble, Sparta, 1st century CE copy of 4th century BCE original.

I appreciate this review of ‘Pan’ by ‘Mr Wyrd’ on the Waterstone’s website.

Day six of terrible cold (not Covid) — the colds you pick up travelling are always the worst. Managing to go in to teach my classes this week, but that’s about it.

‘Song of the woodlands, pan pipes are crying reeds / His maddened tune will lift the autumn leaves.’ In ‘The Great God Pan,’ from their 2011 album ‘Living with the Ancients,’ Toronto band Blood Ceremony celebrates the god’s ecstatic music.

This is the only rapture you’re going to experience today.

Its here! The first ever Ancient Times, our new zine covering everything stone related and beyond. This issue contains French Megaliths, Daniel Gumb, Flint, Stonehenge, Druids and more! 40 pages of stone-mania. Copies will be shipped in October. stoneclub.bigcartel.com/product/anci...

SIgn up now for our forthcoming campaign to publish the lost books of Victor Neuburg! tinyurl.com/vinepress

As stepdad to a terrific autistic kid, I’m just going to say that we should try to be understanding and inclusive instead of identifying difference as a ‘problem’ to blame on women and medication on the basis of ignorance masquerading as science.

The Table des Marchands, an enclosed tomb with a carved stele in Locmariaquer, Morbihan, Brittany. #TombTuesday #Bretagne 📷 June, 2023

My review of 'Folklore: A Journey Through Past and Present' by @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social: 'a must-read for anyone passionate about folklore, its history as a field of study, and its changing role in British culture and society.'

‘I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.’ Happy Hobbit Day! 🎨 J.R.R. Tolkien

Happy Autumn Equinox! 🎨David Teniers (1635-90), ‘Autumn’

Apparently having two Irish great-great-great grandparents doesn’t entitle me to Irish citizenship. They emigrated to Scotland in the 1840s, so fair enough.

Pan’s garden

At Avebury, July 2023. #StandingSunday

The menhir of Kerloas in Plouarzel (Finistère) stands 9.5m above ground with an estimated 2m below. It was quarried from a rock bed 2km away and has been smoothed all over. A raised boss was left on each of the narrow faces. Negative by Hamonic pre-1904. #StandingStoneSunday.

"M Zola ... is determined to show that, if he has not genius, he can at least be dull. And how well he succeeds!" - Oscar Wilde, 'The Decay Of Lying'. (Ouch!) #BookWormSat #Naturalism #OscarWilde #Zola

The Enchanted Owl Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 1960

Resting with a bad cold this weekend but have some company.

Enjoyed watching Christopher Lee in this 1964 Italian/Spanish co-production; a dark and atmospheric Karnstein story, though some of the dubbed voices are annoying.

In the ancient Greek novel ‘Daphnis and Chloe,’ the pirate Bryaxis kidnaps Chloe but is persuaded to return her after Pan appears to him in a dream, warning that he will never see home again unless she is returned. 🎨Marc Chagall, ‘The Dream of Captain Bryaxis’

Currently listening: Broadcast, ‘Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009.’

Ready for a new issue? Pre-orders for The Mirror Issue are now open worldwide! ✨🪞✨ Mirror magic, ritual masks, films that cast a spell, doppelgängers and fetches, changelings, evil portraits, spirit traps and much more. 👉🏼 helleborezine.com

Currently enjoying this excellent collection of Gothic stories by Elizabeth Walter (1927-2006), edited by Nick Freeman.

A personification of the Heavens holding the orbs of the Sun and Moon, from Jan Skarbek's Mars Gloriosus (1674)

This is the (very overgrown) corridor tomb of Lobo near Caro in Brittany. Measuring 22m long and hidden in woodland, it is extremely difficult to find and is now guarded by a large and aggressive army of ants! #TombTuesday

An offering of grasses left at West Kennet Long Barrow, Wiltshire, July 2023. #TombTuesday

Arrived today! The latest from @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social

There's NewPoetry today from Christina Wells (@cgwells.bsky.social). newpoetry.ca/2025/09/15/t...

Returning from short trip to Toronto for my mother’s funeral this weekend. It was a moving celebration of her life, and good to reconnect with relatives and friends.

Nature is the only deity I respect. Happy to manifest itself openly publicly daily continously. Happy to submit to the most extreme of probing while preserving its mystery. All the while looking fabulous. Caring about every particle equally. youtu.be/p4gSljZUYtk?... @pjrobichaud.bsky.social

Has anyone ever written an alternative history novel where the Wessex Culture survived into modern times and Stonehenge and all the other megalithic sites were continuously active for millennia, further developed as sacred sites, and ultimately augmented with technology?

The Long Neolithic is an ongoing conversation. The stones talk between themselves, slow exchange across centuries. The stones talk to the landscape and of course, the stones talk to us. Answering back may be the minimum level of politeness. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

If you live in North America, you can pre-order ‘Stories of the Stones’ through the University of Chicago Press. North American publication date is April 1st, 2026.

Unfunded hobbyist researchers of the world, unite!