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Mostly UK wildlife and prehistory. A drinker of real ale, real cider & real coffee. Wolves FC supporter. All 📸 my own.
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Ade @scrufftyguy.bsky.social · Jul 20
There’s just something about Machrie Moor. Machrie Moor 2, Isle of Arran. #StandingStoneSunday #MachrieMoor #Arran @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
Three lichen covered standing stones at Machrie Moor, Arran.
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Hexham Abbey, Northumberland. #MedievalSky #Hexham #HexhamAbbey #Northumberland
October 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Denge sound (acoustic) mirrors. Built in the late 1920s/early 1930s as an experimental early warning system for incoming aircraft but as aircraft speed increased they were superseded by radar. The largest circular dish measures 9m across.
#ScheduledMonument #MilitaryHistory #History #Kent #Dungeness
October 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Oast house, Sissinghurst, Kent. Traditionally used for drying hops, oast houses now represent a bygone age of brewing. 🍻 #Beer #Brewing #RealAle #Hops #Kent #Sissinghurst
October 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Pike of Stickle, #Cumbria, the heart of the Langdale axe industry. Langdale (Group VI) axes knapped from volcanic tuff have been found all over the UK notably at several Neolithic monuments. #StandingStoneSunday #GreatLangdale @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social @adamibbotson.bsky.social
Looking down the valley of Mickleden with the prominent domed summit of Pike of Stickle rising up in the background. Unpolished prehistoric stone axe head with a model of a shafted axe below, displayed on a thick blanket of green moss.
September 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Grass of Parnassus, Gowbarrow Fell, Cumbria. The county flower of both Cumbria in England and Sutherland in Scotland. #WildFlowerHour #MacroMonday #LakeDistrict @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @cumbriabdc.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Common Field Grasshopper near Hexham, Northumberland. #MacroMonday #BugSky #Grasshopper #Hexham #Northumberland @northwildlife.bsky.social
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Common Field Grasshopper on wooden beam.
September 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Chesterholm Milestone next to the Stanegate road near Vindolanda fort. Measuring 1.7m in height, it is the only intact Roman milestone to have remained in its original position. #StandingStoneSunday #Vindolanda #RomanBritain @vindolandatrust.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
Cylindrical pillar of red sandstone standing in dappled sunlight beneath the trees.
August 31, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Female Common Darter, near Hexham, Northumberland this afternoon. #Dragonfly #Dragonflies #Hexham #Northumberland @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @northwildlife.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Painted Lady on a dahlia, South Cumbria. #BigButterflyCount #ButterflyWeek #UKButterflies #Butterfly #Cumbria #LakeDistrict @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @cumbriabdc.bsky.social
Painted Lady butterfly (and a small fly) on a yellow dahlia.
August 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Bracken, Great Langdale, Cumbria. #FernFriday #Bracken #Fronds #GreatLangdale #Cumbria #LakeDistrict @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @cumbriabdc.bsky.social
Close up of overlapping Bracken fronds.
August 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Pentre Ifan, Pembrokeshire. Neolithic chambered tomb situated below the Preseli Hills, the source of the bluestones that went into the making of Stonehenge as well as Pentre Ifan itself. #StandingStoneSunday #TombTuesday #Dolmen #PentreIfan @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
Pentre Ifan dolmen, Pembrokeshire.
July 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Small Tortoiseshell butterfly, Sizergh, South Cumbria. #Butterfly #Cumbria #LakeDistrict @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @cumbriabdc.bsky.social
Small Tortoiseshell butterfly resting on orange flowers.
July 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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There’s just something about Machrie Moor. Machrie Moor 2, Isle of Arran. #StandingStoneSunday #MachrieMoor #Arran @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
Three lichen covered standing stones at Machrie Moor, Arran.
July 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire. Founded in 1132 by monks from the Benedictine house of St. Mary’s, York, it became the wealthiest Cistercian monastery in England until its dissolution, by order of Henry VIII, in 1539. #MedievalMonday #MedievalSky #Yorkshire
July 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Birkrigg Stone Circle, Birkrigg Common, near Bardsea, Cumbria. A.k.a The Druid’s Circle. Taken from the outer ring with Morecambe Bay in the distance.
#StandingStoneSunday #Cumbria #Birkrigg #MorecambeBay @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
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July 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Warnscale Beck, Buttermere, Cumbria. #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #Buttermere @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social @friendsoflakes.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Giant’s Grave, Kirksanton, Cumbria. Black Combe rising in the distance.
#StandingStoneSunday #Cumbria @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Heckington Windmill, Lincs. The only surviving eight-sailed windmill in the UK. There’s an excellent little microbrewery (8 Sail Brewery 🍻) on site too. #WindmillWednesday #Windmill #Heckington #Lincolnshire #LincolnshireLife
June 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Six-spot Burnet moth on Kidney Vetch & Oxeye Daisies at Ormsgill slag bank, South Cumbria. #Moths #BurnetMoth #TeamMoth #WildFlowerHour #Coast #BarrowInFurness #Cumbria @savebutterflies.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @cumbriabdc.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Goggleby Stone, Shap, Cumbria. One of the fourteen remaining stones that originally formed part of a 2.5km stone avenue, that up until the 18th century was considered comparable to Avebury.
#StandingStoneSunday #Cumbria @adamibbotson.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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First Golden-ringed Dragonfly today at @rspbengland.bsky.social Haweswater. Small Copper, Common Blue & Small Heath butterflies also present. #Dragonfly #Cumbria #LakeDistrict @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @cumbriabdc.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Carreg Samson, Neolithic burial chamber, Pembrokeshire. #StandingStoneSunday #Dolmen @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Ringed Plover nest, South Cumbria. Monitored for @btobirds.bsky.social Nest Record Scheme. 🪺 #MorecambeBay #Nest @wadertales.bsky.social @waderquest.bsky.social @waderstudy.bsky.social
Speckled eggs of the Ringed Plover in nest made of shell fragments and shingle.
May 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Another image from Machrie Moor, Isle of Arran. Of the original nine stones forming the circle at Machrie Moor 3, only one still stands. #StandingStoneSunday #MachrieMoor #Arran @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Machrie Moor 2, Isle of Arran. #StandingStoneSunday #MachrieMoor #Arran @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM