Cup-marked kerb stone of the north-east burial cairn at the Clava Cairns - a wonderful Bronze Age cemetery near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #ClavaCairns #Archaeology #Highlands
Three standing stones nestled together on green grass against cloudy skies.
Lundin Links standing stones. Three enormous standing stones on the fairway at the Ladies Golf Course in the East Neuk of Fife #StandingStoneSunday
Aconites, scilla, crocus, and snowdrops on the floor of the wood.
Carpets of spring flowers at Cambo, Fife, yesterday
Three characterful standing stones on a grassy golf links as clouds scud past.
Lundin Links standing stones, on the fairway of the Ladies Golf Club, East Neuk of Fife. Tall and striking! StandingStoneMondaytoo
Between 2017-22 I was a Post-doc researcher with Scotland's Rock Art Project.
The project was funded by the AHRC and recently the @ukri.org invited us to feature their new Future Makers series.
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A stone with spiral carvings in a dark chamber
#TombTuesday rare Neolithic tomb art from a Welsh passage grave: multiple spiral motifs inside the Boyne Valley-style cruciform chambers of Barclodiad y Gawres in Ynys Môn/Anglesey
📷 My own, winter 2023
The remains of Cairn Holy II - one of two Neolithic chambered cairns which overlook Wigtown Bay in Dumfries & Galloway. The Clyde-type chambered cairn was traditionally thought to be the tomb of Caldus, the mythical Scottish King. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Archaeology
A day early for #StandingStoneSunday because there’s a lichen heart on this one. The remaining upright stone at Ardnacross on the Isle of Mull.
West Woods Polissoir No.1: A find from the 2007 survey of West Woods by the Wiltshire Archaeology & Natural History Society's Archaeology Field Group, this is the polissoir listed as find C009 - "Part of a pollisor (sic) on a cut sarsen".
Leaden grey cloud with standing stones skylined. Capstone of chamber floats in air, while orthostats of entrance stand taller. Foreground dull green in low light.
Leaden grey cloud sky with flashes of steely blue and violet. Standing stones of entrance lean inwards, seemingly propping each other. skylined. Capstone of chamber glimpsed behind. Distant views to sea beyond
And treasure, those still moments of reawakening ...
Cairn Holy 2 Dumfries and Galloway
#TombTuesday #ArchaeologyLife #Archaeology #prehistory #Scotland @archscot.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
Three mossy standing stones stand in a line in scrub between a field and road.
Dyke Rowe, single stone row south of Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway #StandingStoneSunday
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A stark, bare landscape of flat ground, ploughed field and stream under a grey sky is enlivened by detailed studies in the foreground of the plants and flowers of February
“February. Another cold, dead month, or so it seems. The elms are bare against the sky, the plough-ground is naked and wet, and still as brown as the sodden leaves.
Yet the world is waking up”.
Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder (ShellGuide, 1955)
Two standing stones forming entrance to chambered cairn. Ante-chamber and chamber comprising lower stone slab boxes in foreground. Distant sky is orange and dark with Mmorning sunrise, green pastures and woodlands below.
And at some places, we can feel closer to the rhythms of the world...
Cairn Holy 1 chambered cairn is a remarkable monument which has been visibly revisted and reused for nearly six thousand years.
#prehistory #TombTuesday @archscot.bsky.social @the.stone.club @megalithic.bsky.social
That's a shame, though it's good to be out 😊
Lovely photo. Any rock art?
Snowdrops!
Four large, one-metre-high, boulders forming a square on rough grassland. The hills of northern Arran can be seen in the background.
A square amongst so many circles? Machrie Moor 4 on #Arran, #StandingStoneSunday … More pics on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...
A blackbird is purchased on the ground of a wooded bank near a lake on a misty winter day. Overhead, hazel catkins droop.
“When we see the hazel catkins turn yellow, we know that spring is not far off”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
The dolmen in snow
Trethevy Quoit, Cornwall, is a well-preserved portal dolmen, a burial chamber with four upright overlapping granite slabs forming the sides of the chamber and lateral stones at the front and back. These monuments were constructed in the early Neolithic period (3700-3300 BC). #StandingStoneSunday
The remains of South Clettreval Chambered Cairn in North Uist. The cairn dates to the Neolithic and is located on the southern slopes of Cleitreabhal a Dheas. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #NorthUist
Beautiful rock art 😊
Good morning from beautiful Dumfries and Galloway ☀️
A gleaming greyish-green polished stone axehead, lying on a pink baise background on display in the National Museum of Ireland.
Jadeitite Axehead • Donegal
This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland.
Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
It was windy and cold and eventually wet, but there were stones 🥰 and cows 🐮 and some people
Cervid panel at Rowtor Rocks - head with antlers to left, body and legs to the right. There is a baby deer bottom right (not showing particularly well here). Possibly Mesolithic based on comparison with similar engravings in Scandinavia. Photo my own
Bovine engraving at Rowtor Rocks, thought to be an aurochs. The head is missing (top left), but the curve of the back flows left to right into the animal's tail, with the forelegs and hind legs visible in relief below. Photo - my own
The 'Rosetta Stone' at Rowtor Rocks, an unusually complex abstract rock art panel on a boulder, probably dating from the Early Bronze Age. A cross within concentric circles, surrounded by flames or petals, with cup and ring around. Photo: my own
At Rowtor Rocks to see new prehistoric rock art with Anna Clark and Prof George Nash, on one of the wettest mornings the Peak District could muster (yep that's wet)
You can find out more at Derbyshire Archaeology Day, last few tickets here: chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys...
The remains of the bathhouse at Bar Hill Roman Fort on the Antonine Wall, near Twechar in East Dunbartonshire. The fort is the highest of the 16 known forts on the wall. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #BarHill
A fine spring day. Blue skies, sunshine, and a dolmen quite tightly contained within a very old and rusty iron fence. It's set in rough pasture, with hills beyond.
#DailyMegalith #TombTuesday
There seems to be a Welsh theme today, so here's my contribution.
The rather lovely Bachwen (aka Clynnog) nr #Caernarfon #Gwynedd #Wales (2025)
The capstone has 110 cupmarks, and there are fine views out to sea.
🏺 #Neolithic
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Thanks, this might be a January project 😊
That looks delicious. What's your recipe?
The Dumgoyach Standing Stones - the stone row is located just off the West Highland Way, near Strathblane in Stirlingshire. The stone row possibly dates to the Neolithic. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Stirlingshire
