Morning visit on the way somewhere. If you like your stones standing, they have plenty in circles round the big cairns. This place is wow and one of my favourite megalithic sites.
Last stone standing in Pen-y-Beacon (Hay Bluff) stone circle for today's #StandingStoneSunday.
Rather forlorn next to a parking area now (although it does sometimes have its own ice-cream van), the circle stands at the foot of Pen-y-Beacon/Hay Bluff in the Black Mountains. It has great views all the way to Y Mynydd Ddu on a clear day.
This visit April 2010 on a walk from Talgarth to Hay-on-Wye along the northern summit of the Black Mountains.
Back to 2009 for today's #StandingStoneSunday and a trip to the lovely island of North Uist in the Western Isles.
Pobuill Fhinn Stone Circle is such a nice circle in a wonderful location. Eabhal [Eaval] is in the background of the photo, my favourite hill round here.
A terrific stone circle in Dartmoor's inner space for today's #StandingStoneSunday - White Moor (sometimes called Little Hound Tor) stone circle, a spacious ring with a 6 foot outlier.
In #folklore the stones are a huntsman and his hounds, turned to stone for hunting on the Sabbath (makes a change from the usual 'dancing on the Sabbath' tales).
Visited on a scorching hot and thankfully dry underfoot St George's Day, April 2011.
Time travel back to 2016 and a trip to the North York Moors for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Commondale Stone Circle hides in plain view in open moorland. About 18 small stones, most only about 1ft tall. It's easy to miss but well worth finding. A lovely place to sit and spend time at on a sunny day.
Close to Mitchell's Fold, near the Welsh border, this is Hoarstones. It sits in an often boggy area, off the higher ground of Stapeley Hill and the Stiperstones ridge. The circle is little-frequented and many of the stones are fallen. It has a fine view towards Corndon Hill, a prominent summit with many Bronze Age cairns.
First time we've been to the prehistoric ring cairn at Delfour, with Moray this morning. There's a central pile of stones, then two concentric rings of rocks. There's also one tall standing stone remaining from the stone circle that used to surround it. #Cairngorms National Park, #Scotland
Christmas Day heralded the best weather of the few days I was on Orkney, and I was showering when I realised that this would be the best time to visit the Ring of Brodgar... I hurried from the shower and drove the short distance to the Ring of Brodgar, in time to catch the sunrise. (This wasn't particularly early: the sun rose sometime after 9am, and set just after 3pm!)
Off to the land of the recumbent stone circle for today's #StandingStoneSunday photo. A sunny visit to New Craig Stone Circle, 12 years back now. Time moves too quickly. The 2 flankers and recumbent stone are pretty wonderful.
If you like a RSC, the Gazetteer for the wonderful book “Great Crowns of Stone; The Recumbent Stone Circles of Scotland” is really worth a download and look through.
Oof! I might have overdone it a little bit today. I’ve had low energy levels these last couple of days so thought I’d go for a 12.5 mile hike on the moor 🤔. Felt further with the sodden peat sucking at my boots every step.
Lovely in the sunshine though with the sound of skylarks, stone chats and meadow pipits. Several stone circles and stone rows to investigate.
Then the ‘weather’ came in, and it became quite a slog back. Found me a quaking mire which was fun!
The most famous of all Irish recumbent stone circles. It meant a lot to finally make it here all the way from Aberdeenshire - the land of the RSC. Just a brilliant circle. A magic day. As happy as a spaceways gets.
Aviemore 'Clava' cairn; the remains of a kerbed cairn (which likely had a central mound and chamber), surrounded by a free-standing stone circle. It's in a neat little suburban setting now, with glimpses of the Cairngorm mountains beyond.
Torbreck stone circle near Inverness, a lovely little ring of shapely stones, graded in size. Visited after a heavy snowfall the day before, with sleet for company.
The East Aquhorthies Stone Circle. This can be found a few miles west of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire and was traditionally called "Easter Aquhorthies". It is one of around 90 recumbent stone circles to have survived in Aberdeenshire. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/inverurie/easteraquhorthies/index.html
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.
Une partie de l'un des cromlechs d'Ordy, en Poméranie, Pologne. Le site daterait des tous premiers siècles de notre ère, quand les Goths et les Gépides migrèrent hors de Scandinavie.
The recumbent stone and flankers of the Midmar Kirk Stone Circle in Aberdeenshire, and the kirk, built adjacent to the 17m diameter circle in 1787, some 4,000 years after the circle was put in place. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/echt/midmarcircle/index.html