The Watch Stone standing beside the road at the bridge between the Stenness and Harray Lochs, this is between Stenness Stones and the ring of Brodgar. The Watchstone measures 5.6 metres high (18 feet 6in), is 1.5 metres wide (5ft) and 40.6cm thick (16in). #StandingStoneSunday#PreHistory#Orkney
Marden Stone Circle. Built in the Neolithic age. I just marvel at the age of these structures and who stood here and decided Yep. Good place to whack some stones up I reckon!
This is the largest circle on Dartmoor at 38m. Although only a handful of stones remain, it's still impressive, and the view across to Dartmoor is astonishing.
I reckon I'm around two 3rds through my walk, so I have a rest on a small cairn circle that sits next to the larger one, while I decide how to get back to Steps Bridge. This small circle is Bronze age. Meh. So modern!
I decide not to go back through the woods, but to zigzag via the lanes and bridleways.
As I set off again, I pass a group of massive Long Horn cattle having a doze in the sun.
The atmospheric location of Castlerigg, looking SSE down over Dale Bottom. Low and High Rigg middle foreground on the left and beyond is the Helvellyn massif. The dark green rounded lump at the end of the valley is great Howe at Legburthwaite. #StandingStoneSunday More 1/ #StoneCircle#cumbria#lakedistrict#landscape
One of the West Kennett Avenue stones beside the B4003; the remaining stone of the destroyed Falkner's stone circle; and two from Avebury. On a rainy day at the end of May 2011.
"Standing here, in the rain
Maybe the weather will change again..."
Strichen recumbent stone circle up in the north east of Scotland. Seems a lifetime ago. Even our shadows look younger than nowadays. I'm feeling as old as the stones today.
A little bit of Avebury for today's #StandingStoneSunday. This visit in May 2011 at the end of a walk from Wroughton airfield that took in Barbary Castle hillfort, Fyfield Down (The Polisher) and Devil's Den. I like Avebury best as the end point of a walk over the Downs, with time to appreciate the landscape.
Three stones of the southern inner circle on the left, two massive stones of the great circle on the right.
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.
La statue-menhir de Jouvayrac, Aveyron, France. Il s'agit d'une réplique : l'original est conservé au musée Fenaille de Rodez.
On trouve des menhirs gravés anthropomorphes un peu partout en Europe, même s'ils sont peu courants. Les confins de l'Aveyron, de l'Hérault et du Tarn en rassemblent près de 150.