Barbury Castle, bisected by The Ridgeway National Trail. The ancient Ridgeway used to track to the North East towards Liddington Castle. The national trail turned 50 this year. See more hillforts in my new Facebook group "UK Hillforts". #Ridgeway50 #ridgeway #ridgeway50photos

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The Grand Dolmen of Bagneux in Saumur (Maine-et-Loire) has 4 capstones resting on 4 broad orthostats on each side and a single terminal slab which is over 7m wide as illustrated on this view of the back and N side of the tomb.

Castle Hill, Wittenham Earth Trust

Saturday

The genius of the novel is contrast. Quixote is idealism. Sancho is realism. Quixote dreams. Sancho doubts. But both are necessary. One without the other collapses.

Tofelae Stelae site in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 stands as a remarkable testament to megalithic craftsmanship, with origins tracing back more than 1,500 years. These impressive stone pillars, adorned with intricate carvings, are believed to commemorate the deceased or to signify individuals

The megaliths of Wassu (Gambia) and Wanar (Senegal). africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-ancient-…

The Labour government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill: A land grab. This includes compulsory purchase by public bodies & governments (local & national) to buy land (which includes the green belt, farmland and also allotments) at low agricultural value rather than full hope

A fantastic close-up photograph of one of the Caryatids from behind as she overlooks Athens like a timeless sentinel at Erectheum, Acropolis. Photograph taken ca. 1928-1930 by Walter Hege.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny. Roger Scruton

Clee Hill Common, Shropshire.

“Druid Stones Nr. Keswick” by Francis Frith

Part of the 19 touring Glossy Ibis that flew over whilst having lunch at the excellent Southwold Pitstop Cafe earlier this afternoon.

Pierre Jahan. La Mort et les Statues. 1946. Jahan published a book in collaboration with Jean Cocteau; ‘Death and the Statues’. Jahan had found a pile of statues in a Parisian breaker's yard ripped from their plinths by the Nazis to be melted down for their metal. Symbolic.

900-year-old doorway of the Church of St. Mary and St. David in Herefordshire, UK

Megaliths of Sulawesi, Indonesia 🇮🇩 Bada Valley in Central Sulawesi is world famous for its prehistoric relics from an ancient megalithic culture. Dozens of finely carved megaliths estimated to date back between 1,000 – 5,000 years are scattered across the valley. There are

'Mors-Janua-Vitae'— Nice surprise in world of #cemetery #sculpture. Thieves stole Wm Goscombe John's #bronze #statue from his grave in #Hampstead, and everyone thought 'that's that'. Now the statue in #marble has surfaced in #TunbridgeWells Cemetery, at Lady Webb's 1919 memorial.