The Lord Stones, which sit on Green bank, North Yorkshire are not ancient but they are pretty and they occupy a magnificent location
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For #StandingStoneSunday , Machrie Moor, Isle of Arran, December 2009
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I am one of those archaeologists happy to talk about orthostats having a presence. You know when you are in their zone of influence. I'd even happily entertain alternative lithic measuring units such as folklore per foot, spirits per stone. – Dr. K Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
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3 adjacent granite stone circles on a wet, wild Bodmin Moor 2 wks ago. The 'Hurlers': apparently turned to stone for playing on Sunday.
Central, largest one has 14 original stones+14 markers.
Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age group aligned w others to NE&SW.
Undated #StandingStoneSunday offering. Known as the Withystone, it's on a sort of cross roads. Further down one road is a cottage - Withystone Cottage and down one lane Cornwall interactive map marks a chapel. heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Result…
A ladybird 🐞 on the Witch Stone near Fraserburgh. Said to be a place of historical witch burnings.
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I’ve been looking forward to introducing you to the standing stones of Båstad (Skåne, Sweden of course)… In a lovely wooded grove. Probably raised during the Iron Age, over burials from that period. #StandingStoneSunday More 1/
Rowtor Rocks in Derbyshire is an unusual place, natural rocks formations carved into mystical shapes in the late 18thc. But it seems to have been an important site much earlier, with Bronze age carvings, like this rare quarter-sun, still visible on the stones #StandingStoneSunday