The last walk of 2025. West Runton to Cromer, Norfolk. Wishing you all the very best for 2026.

Long Meg (without Her Daughters), near Penrith, Cumbria. Part of the third widest Neolithic stone circle in England. Cup and ring marks and a spiral (similar to those at Newgrange and Knowth, Ireland) can be clearly seen on surface. #StandingStoneSunday

Christmas turnaround #Norwich #StPeterMancroft #church #Christmas #carousel

Today is the day the rising sun shines through the roof chamber at #Newgrange in Ireland. It marks the turning of the year and the return of light on the shortest day. Happy solstice #winter #solstice

Worried-looking dragon. 15th century bench end. St Mary's #church, North Elmham #Norfolk #woodensday

Wherryman's Way, River Chet, Chedgrave, Norfolk #FingerPostFriday

Nine Ladies (actually ten) stone circle, Stanton Moor, Derbyshire. Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age. In a clearing of birch trees, these stones of millstone grit were once believed to be women who had been turned to stone as punishment for dancing on the sabbath #StandingStoneSunday

A glorious range of colour variation in these roughly knapped flints in the wall of Holy Trinity Church, Loddon #Norfolk #FlintFriday

Ty-Newydd #Neolithic burial chamber #Anglesey #Wales ##TombTuesday

Megaliths, Colonsay, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday

Gorleston was Gorleston ere Yarmouth Begun, Raveningham Sculpture Trail, Norfolk #fingerpostfriday

Not so much for the dead as of the dead. Capela dos Ossos (Bone Chapel), part of the 18th century Carmelite church, Nossa Senhora do Carmo in Faro, Portugal, which contains the bones of over 1000 Carmelite friars #TombTuesday

Two of the taller megaliths of Pobull Fhinn stone circle on slope of Ben Langlass, Isle of North Uist. Probably 2nd millennium BCE. The circle is actually an oval c 27 x 38 metres. About two dozen stones remain in total. #StandingStoneSunday #Scotland

Dejected signpost, Norfolk #FingerpostFriday

A thin place, Iona #Samhain #Halloween

Kerry Ridgeway, Shropshire/Powys border #FingerpostFriday

The resting place of Sir John Soanes, polymath and architect of the Bank of England, St Pancras Old Church graveyard, London. His tomb later to be inspiration for the iconic K1 red telephone box #TombTuesday

An outlier of Lochbuie stone circle, whose nine granite megaliths can be seen in the distance in the shadow of Ben Buie on the Isle of Mull. Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age #StandingStoneSunday

Saddle-height fingerpost, Corndon Hill, Powys, Wales #FingerPostFriday

NEWS – Flint Country makes EABA Shortlist I'm delighted to announce that Flint Country has been shortlisted in the General Non-fiction category for the East Anglia Book Awards 2025. The winners of each of the seven categories will be announced early next year. It's gratifying to see it here,…

Knowth passage tomb, Co Meath, Ireland. Built c 3000 BCE, part of the Bru na Boinne complex in the bend of the River Boyne. Here are some of its many decorated kerbstones #TombTuesday

Monasterboyce tower and high cross, Ireland #BlueSkyMonday

Fantastic news to have Flint Country shortlisted for this award.

An outlier at Beltany Stone Circle, Donegal #Ireland #StandingStoneSunday

Bryn Celli Ddu, a late Neolithic site on Anglesey, Wales. Built in two phases: first a henge, then later a passage tomb added within, its entrance roughly aligned with the summer solstice. Visitors continue to leave votive offerings even today #TombTuesday

One of 64 stones at Bronze Age Beltany stone circle, Donegal #StandingStoneCircle #Ireland

The Bloody Foreshore, Donegal, Ireland #FingerPostFriday

Drumnatiddy beach, Co Donegal, Ireland

The path to Tramore Beach, Co Donegal, Ireland

Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland. Cross, tower and church.

Absorbed by nature, SE Bulgaria #FingerPostFriday

Holy Trinity Church, Loddon, and its lovely glistening rainbow of flintwork.

Lochbuie stone circle. Nine granite megaliths shape a circle, close to the shoreline in the shadow of Ben Buie on the Isle of Mull. Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age #StandingStoneSunday

Callanais, Isle of Lewis. The grain of the land #StandingStoneSunday #megaliths

Telephone box and heron, Ulva, Inner Hebrides, Scotland #telephones #TelephoneBoxTuesday

Megaliths of Callanish VIII overlooking bridge to Great Berneray Island, Isle of Lewis #StandingStoneSunday

North Elmham Chapel, Norfolk #WallsOnWednesday

Huge flints in walls of North Elmham Chapel, 12th century, the private chapel of Bishop Herbert Losinga, Norfolk #WallsOnWednesday

Carved wooden bench ends, 15th century, Church of St Mary the Virgin, North Elmham #Norfolk #churches

Ty-Newydd, Anglesey, Wales. Neolithic burial chamber. Once covered with earth with a passage leading within, its bare bones remain #StandingStoneSunday

One from the archive. Red telephone box, Cromore, Isle of Lewis 2017

Long Meg without her daughters, Cumbria, red sandstone #megalith #archaeology #Neolithic #StandingStoneSunday

Mayburgh henge, Cumbria. Solitary remaining megalith of Neolithic henge monument #StandingStoneSunday

Dudley Ay It We were driving home from North Wales, and it is a long way to East Anglia from there. So we were looking for a break in the journey somewhere: a place to rest overnight before A14-ing onwards to Norwich? While it might not be everybody’s destination of choice, Dudley, de facto…

Barclodiad y Gawres. Another hot day on Anglesey - the beach just 500m away was packed @stoneclub.bsky.social

Ty-Newydd, Anglesey Neolithic chamber tomb. Some modern supporting pillars, but look at that massive cap stone @stoneclub.bsky.social

Today, on a very warm Anglesey, Bryan Celli Ddu chambered cairn and stone circle @stoneclub.bsky.social

The view from Great Orme, Llandudno

Such a joy to see this very generous blog post on my latest book, Flint Country: “'Flint Country' is a declaration of love to an underrated region – full of knowledge, wit and literary subtlety." fabfourblog.com/2025/07/29/f...