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Megaliths and✨SO MUCH✨more. Browse our🗿WORLDWIDE 📜 ancient site 🗺️ map/database/gallery. 🪨 Human prehistory🦣 to🏺1100CE 🏛️ Andy B posting✨ Main site: https://www.megalithic.co.uk 'Endless Fun' - The Telegraph More: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/linktree/

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · Jun 22

Mention us ( @megalithic.bsky.social ) in your ancient site photo posts for a retweet/post if we like them - and we mostly do! #StandingStoneSunday (and non standing stone things too - anything older than about 1000AD/CE, or 'pre-contact' in the Americas)

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 9h

📷 Adam Stanford More: http://www.megalithi...

The Queen Stone

Standing Stone (Menhir) in Herefordshire, England

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 9h

The Queen Stone: A squatter version of the Devil's Arrows, near Ross-on-Wye. Very grooved, probably due to the action of rainwater. It doesn't look it but it is 7ft (2.1m) tall. On private land quite a way from the road, in a field in the bend of the River Wye, at Symonds Yat.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 21h

Vielsted Runddysse 1: One of Denmark's most impressive and well-preserved dolmens with 19 large kerbstones visible. #TombTuesday The chamber has 4 orthostats (uprights) and a large capstone as you can see. Lots more photos on our page. 📷 Tonnox More: http://www.megalithi...

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 1d

...but can you give us any more information? Any packing stone finds? Any ramp like features that might indicate a stone being inserted or removed? Anything that might allow you to be more positive? Thanks @olafbayer.bsky.social

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 1d

Hello @olafbayer.bsky.social - I understand the caution over the possible stone circle at Castilly - I'm remembering the famous reconstruction issued by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of similar results from Durrington that turned out not to be... www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?...

Durrington Walls

Close up of the 3D interpretation of the proposed stone row. (NOW OUT OF DATE - the geophysical anomalies turned out to be large pits, not stones, see the main page for more) Photo (dis)Credit: Lud

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 1d

Overall the monument is approximately 60m wide by 80m long, with the outer bank up to 2m high from the bottom of the inner ditch. 📷 Historic England More: http://www.megalithi...

Castilly Henge

Henge in Cornwall, England

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 1d

Castilly Henge is next to the Innis Downs roundabout on the A30, it is a large egg shaped late Neolithic earthwork approximately 30m wide on the inside from each edge of the ditch.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 1d

The archaeologists are currently tight lipped on whether they are any closer to establishing if the seven 'anomalies' located by survey in 2022 are stone holes from a possible circle.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 1d

Castilly Henge: The recent excavation at Castilly Henge has now finished, with finds including fragments of Neolithic flint tools and post-medieval pottery.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

Love a Clonehenge! @clonehenge.bsky.social

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

I take your point but Cornwall has dozens of impressive stone circles already that are analogous to Stonehenge - actual henge or not. <Somewhere>’s Stonehenge is just such a cringeworthy cliche, we see it everywhere and drives me nuts.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

But are the archaeologists baffled yet?

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

Hello, I knew it couldn’t have been, I’m pointing the finger at a daft subeditor or Stephen Morris himself. Someone please bring back dear Maev Kennedy. Such a good project, looking forward to hearing more in due course.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

Such a good project but I despair of the reporting. Who is the guilty party, a subeditor or Stephen Morris himself? Someone please bring back dear Maev Kennedy.#StandingStoneSunday www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘It would be wonderful’: the team hoping to unearth ‘Cornwall’s Stonehenge’

Experts and volunteers working at Castilly Henge have been trying determine if it is the county’s lost great stone circle

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

“Cornwall's Stonehenge?” in the Guardian. Seriously?
Altogether now: AAAAARRRGGH!!!
It’s in quotes but surely this didn’t come from the archaeologists? @olafbayer.bsky.social @cornwallarch.bsky.social /1

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

Link to our Art Gallery for lots more: www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?...

Art Gallery : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

Burl wrote that the direction the stones face in the circle is wrong and that some of them rock under little pressure. They make a fine spectacle standing on the skyline of the hill and it is easy to see why the place was chosen. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

Duddo Five Stones

Stone Circle in Northumberland, England

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

Duddo Five Stones: Art by Bladup, lots more in our Art section #StandingStoneSunday. This circle in Northumberland lies atop a hill surrounded by farmland. One of the stones was re-erected in the 1920s and Burl believes that it is probable that they have all been re-erected at some point. More 1/

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3d

2 metres wide lined with alternating orthostats and dry stone walling set within a near circular cairn 12 metres in diameter at construction but later reduced to 7 metres north east by 9 metres east west. 📷 Catrinm More: http://www.megalithi...

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3d

Broadsands Chambered Tomb: A Neolithic chambered tomb or passage grave located on the southern slope overlooking the Torbay coast at Broadsands. This megalithic chamber has a single parallel-sided entrance passage 3.8 metres long and 1.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 4d

I could also find at least 6 "sun circles" and spiral figures, at least 50 cup marks and pairs of soles. A pair of footsole carvings on top of the panel is unusually deeply carved. 📷 kenntha88 More: http://www.megalithi...

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 4d

Skjelin-Østre: This rock art site is one of the largest and most interesting in Østfold discovered the last 10 years. When I visited I could find at least 5 ship figures of the typical bronze age type with high front and back ends and vertical lines thought to resemble crew.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 5d

Unlike the substantial settlement opposite (see Nearby Sites list on our page), there are no large enclosures, and only the remains of a dozen or so single huts or enclosures are to be found, none in very good condition. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

Trowlesworthy Tor north settlement

Ancient Village or Settlement in Devon, England

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 5d

Trowlesworthy Tor north settlement: On the north eastern slopes of Trowlesworthy Tor, on the southern banks of the River Plym below Spanish Lake, Dartmoor are the much ruined remains of a settlement. They show up very will on the LiDAR here.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 5d

The paper is: Pre-Hispanic ritual use of psychoactive plants at Chavín de Huántar. Open Access download available - click on 'Download PDF' at the bottom of the page here: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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