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.
🎉 Special Celebratory Thread 🍻 with prizes 🏆 A rundown of the 🎧 Top 15 Standing Stones according to our Megalithic Portal visitors and contributors. Pt 1. Please share and give us a follow to find out more about our unique ancient site resources. 🏺#StandingStoneSunday 🧵 1
Not so much standing but a stone nonetheless, dating to the Bronze Age. Believed to be the birthing stone of St. Columba. Legend has it that his mother, Elthne, gave birth to him upon this sacred stone.
Since, those embarking for distant lands would spend their last night in Ireland here —mirroring Colomba himself, who had chosen exile from Ireland. #StandingStoneSunday
🎙️It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for, the toppermost standing stones in Britain according to our @megportal visitors and 📸 photo posters. #5 to #1. With 🎁 competition winners too: 🧵/1 #StandingStoneSunday
Printed postcard of the "Old Bridal Stone" or Crow Stone at Kirkcowan near Wigtown in Wigtownshire. Published by P.H. Richmond of Wigtown and printed by Valentine & Sons Ltd of Dundee & London. Not numbered. Not postally used, but is c.1920. #Wigtown#Kirkcowan#Menhirs#HoledStones#Postcards#StandingStoneSunday
A very rare monochrome real photographic postcard of the cup-marked stone at Easter Tobairandonaich in Perthshire, titled "Cup-Marked Stone, Derculich". Publisher not stated, though the photo is identical to that in an article by John H. Dixon in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for 1922 (extract in alt text, and see http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/psas/article/view/7527 to download the article, including photo). Not numbered, c.1920s. #Strathtay#CupMarks#Petroglyphs#Postcards#StandingStoneSunday
Off to the Isles of Scilly for today's #StandingStoneSunday offering. This double holed standing stone is in the Abbey Gardens on Tresco. (Portrait, needs a click)
Its folklore is that it was a prehistoric handfasting or marriage stone.
Long shadows for today's #StandingStoneSunday the fabulous Boswens menhir on the West Penwith moors.
The stone is very asymmetrical and looks different from every angle. If you walk along the Tinner's Way below it, the stone appears as a tall figure on the skyline, which turns to watch you as you pass.
It's intervisible with the marvellous Chûn Quoit Neolithic tomb.
This visit on a beautiful autumn day, November 2010.