Sheep may safely graze – or simply rest – at the #StandingStones of Stenness.
#SheepOfMastodon #StandingStoneSunday
#Neolithic #StonesOfStenness #Orkney

Gigantisches zum #dienstag #Felsenmeer #standingstones #granitrose

La Maison des Feins—or Maison des Fées—nestled in the forêt du Mesnil outside the town of Tressé in the département of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany. It's an allée couverte or passage grave, and remarkably well preserved. Later legend says it was (or is…) a house of the fairies, which makes it a rather eerie place to be.

I probably shouldn’t mention the woman walking two weasels in the woods…

#AlléeCouverte #PassageGrave #Neolithic #Prehistoric #Archaeology #MegalithicBrittany #StandingStones

Part of one of the stone circles in the rich prehistoric landscape of Machrie Moor on the west side of the Isle of Arran. One of the most important prehistoric sites in Scotland, people have been leaving their mark here for 6,000 years. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/arran/machriemoor/index.html

#Scotland #MachrieMoor #StandingStones #Arran #IsleOfArran #UndiscoveredScotland

The largest collection of standing stones in the world, and utterly haunting and awe-inspiring: les alignements de Carnac in Brittany. Over 3,000 of them, perhaps as much as 7,000 years old. These photos are from a trip there yesterday. I’ve wanted to see them for a long time and had my tiny mind blown. What a spectacularly beautiful and mysterious place it is.

#Neolithic #Megaliths #Menhirs #StandingStones #Archaeology #Carnac #Brittany #Bretagne #LesAlignementsDeCarnac #LesAlignementsdeMénec

More photos of the newly erected Carn Brea #menhir along with what look to be the three pieces of the old stone in the hedge - more on our page #StandingStoneSunday Photos by stalwart member Bladup, more here: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6061 #cornwall #standingstones #megalith #megalithic

Ales Stenar. Steine die in der Form eines Bootes angeordnet wurden, ob Grabstätte, Sonnenkalender, Kultstätte oder von allem etwas ist nicht bekannt.
#Reisen #standingstones #wikinger #Geschichte

Just made another little themed video of our recent trip to the UK. This one's all about the ancient stone circles, chalk carvings and other really old stuff we saw. Enjoy!
https://express.adobe.com/video/ax0OCoXZiO3H4

#Travel #photography #StandingStones #UnitedKingdon

Callanish 2 standing stones, photos June 2022. Stunning location and landscape, not far from Callinish 1, which you can see from these. #StandingStoneSunday #PreHistory #Callanish #Scotland #Lewis #StandingStones

The Callanish Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Photos taken June 2022, an incredible magical place, well worth a visit. #StandingStoneSunday #PreHistory #IsleOfLewis #Scotland #StandingStones

A beautiful afternoon at Stanton Drew, no rain thankfully. I read some Stukeley at the stones that I can hopefully share later. Pictured top right is James from Bristol with James from Australia who is over stone hunting and joined our tour. #Stukeley300 #StantonDrew #StandingStoneSunday #prehistory #megalithic #standingstones #Bristol #Somerset

And thinking of the individual stones as art gets me thinking about stories (as I do a lot nowadays). We have a time frame of hundreds of years for their erection, so maybe one way to think of each stone as an event in itself, not just part of the whole? What stories might have been told about each one, and might they have been a way of linking generations, providing an aid to memory and storytelling? #calanais #callanish #standingstones

The quiet suburbs of Färjestaden on the Swedish island of Öland But can you spot the stone circle? More 1/ #Sweden #prehistory #archaeology #megaliths #megalithic #standingstones

A while back I went out into the countryside and took some photos of standing stones and soon learnt that Co. Cork appears to be the region in the world with the largest number of those so quickly decided I needed to capture them all. Needless to say: Nothing came of it.
Imagine my surprise when I recently discovered that there is indeed a small one just a mile or two down the road from me in suburbia that is now part of a regular house enclosure.
#StandingStones #Prehistory #Ireland #Cork

The Story Of CúChulainn's Stone In The Field of Slaughter - Clochafarmore Standing Stone
https://youtu.be/7axYZ7Zymuc
#StandingStoneSunday #standingstones

The Story Of CúChulainn's Stone In The Field of Slaughter - Clochafarmore Standing Stone
https://youtu.be/7axYZ7Zymuc
#StandingStoneSunday #standingstones

Ballymacdermott Court Tomb, Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.

#StandingStoneSunday #Ballymacdermott #CourtTomb #StandingStone #StandingStones #RingOfGullion #Newry #CoDown #CountyDown #NorthernIreland #Ireland #Neolitic #BurialSite #MastoDaoine #IrishMastodon

Twenty years ago today:

Alignment of Calanais 12, Calanais 1, and the moonset notch between Mulla fo Thuath and Teilesval.

Calanais 12 from South-West.

#standingStones #Lewis #Harris #astronomy

@pvonhellermannn I just popped back to see the #StandingStones hashtag shared in a kind message from mastodon.green 😀 I'm now following it!!

(The note was from a locked acct which is why I 'm not sharing their id)

@pvonhellermannn Oh, I definitely never saw the Cornish thingummy before. I'm disappointed now to have missed it.

If there isn't still a #StandingStones hashtag, I think we should reinvent it. Somewhere I have some photos from Carnac in France and from around Kilmartin Glen in Scotland.