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Mike Efstathiou

@mikeef.bsky.social

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PhD Researcher into prehistoric British avenues. A lover of landscapes and all things Mesolithic and Neolithic. Formerly a live music Sound Engineer and Studio/Live Outside Broadcast Producer with an additional career as an IT Service Architect

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Apr 13

Did she christen it??? 🤣

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Dec 1

Maen Mawr at Cerrig Duon for #standingstonesunday. A beautiful, and solid stone.

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Mar 30

A lovely example from the Callanish II stone circle, for #StandingstoneSunday.

Isle of Lewis, May 2024.

Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Mar 23

The remaining Drumtroddan standing stone, Near Port William, Dumfries and Galloway.

#StandingStoneSunday

Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Mar 17

Excellent! I came to visit but Mike was being pulled from trench to trench so we didn't get much chance to chat. You and I probably passed each other at some point!

Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Mar 16

At Waun Mawn in September 2021, during Mike Parker Pearson’s excavations.

#StandingStoneSunday

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Claudia Friedlander @voiceteachernyc.bsky.social · Mar 14

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Mar 9

Rainbows and Mike Allen during a walk along the standing stones of the West Kennet Avenue in March 2024.

#standingstonesunday

Mike Allen points to the end of the rainbow!

Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Mar 8

You sounded very awake Sue!

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Mar 2

One of the stones of the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney.

Visited in May 2024 during my PhD search for Scottish avenues.

#StandingStoneSunday

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Feb 23

On Machrie Moor, with the Neolithic Studies Group, enjoying the megaliths.

Arran, May 2023.

#StandingStoneSunday

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Feb 17

Sure go ahead. A credit when you finish would be nice.

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Feb 17

Hi Isobel, which photo did you want to paint?

Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Feb 16

A large standing stone at the Prehistoric Burial Cairns of Bulnuaran of Clava.

Clava Cairns, near Inverness. Visited in May 2024 during my search for Scottish avenues.

#StandingStoneSunday

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Feb 9

In the foreground stones of the Callanish 3 circle, with in the background those of the Callanish 2 stone circle.

Visited in May 2024.

#StandingStoneSunday

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Jan 26

A single stone a short walk from the Barnhouse Settlement on Orkney. Just by the Loch of Harray.

Visited on my 2024 Avenues tour of Scotland.

#standingstonesunday

Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Jan 19

I hear you guys had a lovely walk yesterday!

Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Jan 19

The Cop Stone, on Moor Divock, Cumbria.

Photographed July 2024 during a search for prehistoric avenues….

#StandingStoneSunday
#prehistory
#archaeology

Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Jan 12

The lone standing stone just to the south of the stone rows of Merrivale, Dartmoor.

#StandingstoneSunday
#archaeology
#prehistory

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Jan 9

Hi Joyce!

Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Jan 5

I didn’t have a problem guiding myself, and some friends, up there. No avenue needed! What spectacular views though! All good here thanks.

Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Jan 5

That's a lovely shot, Jack.

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Jan 5

A beautiful stone at Stanton Drew, photographed during the Stukeley 300 weekend in July 2023.

#standingstonesunday
#prehistory
#archaeology

Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Dec 29

The remaining standing stones at the henge and stone circle of the Broomend of Crichie, near Inverurie, Scotland.

Recorded by James Richie in 1920, and partly excavated by Richard Bradley in 2011.

#StandingStoneSunday
#archaeology
#prehistory

The three remaining standing stones in the henge at the Broomend of Crichie.

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Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social · Dec 23

I don't think so. There is a tradition of recumbent stones in circles in Scotland.

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