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.
I'd wanted to visit this stone with a while. It looked big at first sight, up close it seemed massive. Standing all alone in the open landscape, it seemed at peace. It's the most northerly standing stone I've been to and one of my favourites. A 12ft loveable monster.
In the last few days, in between teaching & writing, I visited two more Nuraghic sites near Siddi dating from the Bronze Age, on a slight high plane above the fertile lowlands of Sardinia: one corridor-shaped (not the usual beehive dome style) at Sa Fogaia; one “giant’s tomb” called Sa Domu ‘e S’Orcu (i.e. house of the orcs!). Both practically empty in April & open to visitors to climb around and inside. Extraordinary places! #StandingStoneSunday#BronzeAge#History#Nuraghe#Sardinia#Sardegna
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.
Le menhir de Benzingerode, Wernigerode, Saxe-Anhalt, Allemagne. Un bloc de quartzite de 3,85 m de haut, près du sommet d'une colline, non loin du massif du Harz.
(On le sait mal sous nos contrées, mais l'Allemagne est remplie de monuments mégalithiques. Y'a pas que les Bretagne, petite et grande, qui en ont plein.)