@stone_lands

Megalith enthusiast, editor and writer. Author of the Wainwright-shortlisted STONE LANDS. If I approach you for work, pls check it's really me via my website!

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Joined January 2014
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Ballowall Barrow: in the old days the miners used to see strange lights here - fairies! #TombTuesday
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Exmoor features historic stone & wooden gate posts throughout its landscapes, ranging from prehistoric standing stones to post-medieval granites & slate.
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Amanda Chadburn@AmandaChadburnOct 20
This (first) is an amazing photo. If you zoom in, you will see two people walking along the old and largely empty road. This is now the A303 with its 25k+ vehicle movements PER DAY past Stonehenge.
Mike Pitts@pittsmikeOct 19
Replying to @pittsmike
These extraordinarily precious photos in the collection of the Wiltshire Museum, Devizes, were used by Antrobus in court. First shot shows what became the A344/A303 junction. Others show tracks across open downland & directly into Stonehenge (with propped stones) @WiltshireMuseum
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The massive dolmen angevin at Bagneux in Saumur (Maine-et-Loire) has 4 broad orthostats on each side, a 7m wide terminal slab and 4 capstones forming an 18x5m chamber, spacious enough to have once been used as a dance hall. Card by Dando-Berry in Loudun 1905. #TombTuesday.
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Hookland@HooklandGuideOct 19
I am a witch of stick and stone; herb-bag, hedge and bone I am a witch of tide and wave; sand, storm and salt-grave I am a witch of bog and moor; fear me knocking the door – Trad. Hookland witch rhyme, still often heard in the county's playgrounds
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Someone has been doing great work clearing vegetation from the prehistoric entrance graves on Kittern Hill (Gugh, Scilly). One of life's greatest pleasures is crawling into an ancient tomb, don't you agree? #TombTuesday
Inside one of the entrance graves, slab standing in the background, rusty links at the front

ALT Inside one of the entrance graves, slab standing in the background, rusty links at the front

View over capstones of entrance grave down to shore of Gugh

ALT View over capstones of entrance grave down to shore of Gugh

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Upright slabs of Lewisian gneis at Calanais - this isn’t even the main circle. An amazing megalithic landscape! #StandingStoneSunday
Circle of standing stones on the moor

ALT Circle of standing stones on the moor

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Kevin Wilbraham@KPW1453Oct 18
The Baliscate Standing Stones, near Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. The standing stones are one of several prehistoric stone rows on the island. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Mull
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The opening ceremony of Ebbw Vale National Eistedfodd, 1958. Lots more archive photos, the construction of the circle #StandingStoneSunday , and how it looks now are on our page. More Gorsedd circles in the coming weeks, do you have any photos you can share? More 1/
The opening ceremony of Ebbw Vale National Eistedfodd, 1958

ALT The opening ceremony of Ebbw Vale National Eistedfodd, 1958

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Tim Daw
@TimdawOct 16
A pool of blood-red water in a sarsen this morning, no filter, caused by Trentepolia algae thriving on organic detritus
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John Cosgrove@johncosgrove405Oct 15
In a "Saw this and thought of you," moment, youngest daughter bought me this book last week. I loved it. Yes, I have a "thing" about old stones but it's about so much more: belonging, family, community, connection, grief, life, death and eternity. Thank you @stone_lands
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Bryn Celli Ddu for #TombTuesday. This place was designed so that the light would enter at midsummer, but the guardian stone would always stand in the shadows, observing.
A smoothed, tall standing stone inside the chamber

ALT A smoothed, tall standing stone inside the chamber

Bry Celli Ddu from outside: stone-lined entranceway leading into the dark mouth of the mound

ALT Bry Celli Ddu from outside: stone-lined entranceway leading into the dark mouth of the mound

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Menhirs de Lambel: There are menhirs in various gardens and along the street in Lambel (Baud), SE Camors, Morbihan - would you like your own like this? 📷 peulven More: megalithic.co.uk/article.php…
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Tim Daw
@TimdawOct 13
My LiDAR Lens for Wiltshire explained
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A foggy spring morning at Fernworthy, no one there but us and a couple of rather hairy locals #StandingStoneSunday
Stone circle in misty clearing in forestry plantation

ALT Stone circle in misty clearing in forestry plantation

Dartmoor resident having a snack

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The ruined allée couverte of La Pierre Courcoulée in Landéan (Ille-et-Vilaine) was 6m long and had a 4x2m 20-ton capstone (broken in two in C19) on 12 orthostats. This 1905 card by Sorel in Rennes gives a glimpse into the chamber which was only 1.3m wide and 60cm high.
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Stone Temple Gardening.
@dr_placesOct 10
Callanish Stone Circle, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, UK. 📸 by Callanish Digital Design
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Stone Bothering
@stonebotheringOct 11
Kilmartin Glen never fails to impress! Stunning landscape and history.
Kevin Wilbraham@KPW1453Oct 11
One of the stone rows at Ballymeanoch - part of the remarkable prehistoric landscape at Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Kilmartin #Argyll
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Brian@bridawg_brianOct 4
Replying to @stone_lands
Past this yesterday, it’s a copied photo, because it was a monsoon at the time,and just found out it sits beside a burial cairn, and possibly a small stone circle, The Kintraw Stone
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The ancient stone at Harry's Walls on St Mary's stands next to a modern daymark, the two seeming to work in synchrony. Maybe the stone itself was used as a marker in prehistoric times. You can actually see it from the water in pic 2.. Look for daymark's cross!#StandingStoneSunday
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