Long shadows for today's #StandingStoneSunday the fabulous Boswens menhir on the West Penwith moors.
The stone is very asymmetrical and looks different from every angle. If you walk along the Tinner's Way below it, the stone appears as a tall figure on the skyline, which turns to watch you as you pass.
It's intervisible with the marvellous Chûn Quoit Neolithic tomb.
This visit on a beautiful autumn day, November 2010.
A beautiful example of a large bronze age burial cairn. Not round but a long cairn which are rare in #norway. The cairn is located on top of a large rocky hill with some pine forest and rock outcrops. From the top there is a beautiful view over the ocean and the cairn would have been easily visible from the sea. Photo by our member Kenneth, the 10,000th he has shared with us. More on our page: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=59311#archaeology#bronzeage
Gelli Hill stone circle, in the quiet hills east of Llandrindod Wells, mid-Wales. The circle itself is quite ruined, most of the stones fallen. A slab lies inside the circle. There's also an outlier and the site is intervisible with a fine Bronze Age cairn on top of the hill.
Off to the Forest of Dean for today's #StandingStoneSunday offering; The Long Stone near Staunton.
It's right next to a busy road, but if you can block that out it's a really lovely, tapering 7 foot tall stone in a beautiful woodland setting. (Portrait, needs a click)
In folklore, if you prick the stone with a pin at the stroke of midnight, it will bleed.
A day of fine views and mostly poor archaeology today; a 13 mile horseshoe walk from Pontardawe around the head of the Afon Egel valley, the ridges marked with about a dozen Bronze Age cairns, nearly all sadly robbed out to the point of non-existence.
Great views of Y Mynydd Ddu and the high hills of the western valleys. Luckily the best cairn of the day came near the end, on the descent back to Pontardawe.
A rather belated #StandingStoneSunday offering today; the ruined remains of Miltown of Clava chambered tomb and surrounding stone circle, a short walk to the NE of the famous Balnuaran of Clava cairns.
Although wrecked, the stone circle still has this mighty and magnificent 'playing card' stone (using Aubrey Burl's term).
The prosperous civilization of the Minoans represented one of the oldest cultures of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean area and the first major Aegean civilization comparable in its achievements to the older ones, such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia.
The magnificent Balnuaran of Clava for today's #StandingStoneSunday. Three large cairns, each surrounded by stone circles, in the Nairn valley near Culloden. There is also a small kerbed cairn. Several of the stones are decorated with cup-marks. The site has given us the 'Clava cairn' type for a group of cairns spread over an area from the Cairngorms to the Black Isle. Just wonderful.
Tod Howe was probably a Bronze Age round #barrow, now surmounted by a boundary stone. One of a line of barrows that run roughly alongside the ancient trod known as the Quakers Causeway. It now marks the boundary between Redcar & Cleveland to the north and #Scarborough Districts to the south. Photo by our member John D Hunter. More on our page: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=59138#Bronzeage
Mains of Clava North East for today's #StandingStoneSunday. A six foot plus single stone, it's possible there was a cairn here as well. It stands in a field a little to the northeast of the wonderful Clava cairns, in the Nairn valley near Culloden.
A revisit to one of my very favourite sites today, over 11 years since I last came:
Moel Ty Uchaf ('Bare hill of the highest house') is a Bronze Age cairn circle in the foothills of the Berwyn mountains. Views are extensive, particularly of Aranau and Arenig Fawr. This morning a temperature inversion filled the valley of Afon Dyfrdwy (that old snake they call the Dee) with cloud.
From here I headed up to Cadair Berwyn and Moel Sych.
Minoans: Highly Advanced Bronze Age Civilization Of Europe (www.ancientpages.com)
The prosperous civilization of the Minoans represented one of the oldest cultures of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean area and the first major Aegean civilization comparable in its achievements to the older ones, such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia.