Morning visit on the way somewhere. If you like your stones standing, they have plenty in circles round the big cairns. This place is wow and one of my favourite megalithic sites.
The best preserved dolmen in west Cornwall. Dates from the early. Neolithic period.
Probably used as a repository for the bones of the dead and as a place where the living could honour and/or seek guidance from the dead. Considering it’s mushroom-like appearance, maybe there was some psychedelic trance work happening? 😄
The term quoit comes the folklore that these ancient monuments were made by giants playing quoits.
Nice start to our day at Brodie castle yesterday, the stone stands near the entrance. The carvings are in great condition. A cross on one side. The other side a pictish beast, two paired sea monsters and a double-disc and Z-rod.
Best though is carved along three corners - the longest Ogham inscription known in Scotland. Only between 30-40 ogham stones have been found in Scotland, these are pretty rare. Got to love a bit of ogham.
Last stone standing in Pen-y-Beacon (Hay Bluff) stone circle for today's #StandingStoneSunday.
Rather forlorn next to a parking area now (although it does sometimes have its own ice-cream van), the circle stands at the foot of Pen-y-Beacon/Hay Bluff in the Black Mountains. It has great views all the way to Y Mynydd Ddu on a clear day.
This visit April 2010 on a walk from Talgarth to Hay-on-Wye along the northern summit of the Black Mountains.
Back to 2009 for today's #StandingStoneSunday and a trip to the lovely island of North Uist in the Western Isles.
Pobuill Fhinn Stone Circle is such a nice circle in a wonderful location. Eabhal [Eaval] is in the background of the photo, my favourite hill round here.
A terrific stone circle in Dartmoor's inner space for today's #StandingStoneSunday - White Moor (sometimes called Little Hound Tor) stone circle, a spacious ring with a 6 foot outlier.
In #folklore the stones are a huntsman and his hounds, turned to stone for hunting on the Sabbath (makes a change from the usual 'dancing on the Sabbath' tales).
Visited on a scorching hot and thankfully dry underfoot St George's Day, April 2011.
Le menhir d'Ussano à Cavallino di Lecce, en Italie. On trouve une tripotée de menhirs dans la province de Lecce, tout au bout des Pouilles. De façon intéressante, beaucoup ont été resculptés par la suite en forme de colonne.
Une partie de l'un des cromlechs d'Ordy, en Poméranie, Pologne. Le site daterait des tous premiers siècles de notre ère, quand les Goths et les Gépides migrèrent hors de Scandinavie.