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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 · 23h

Castell Bryn-Gwyn: The hillfort is defended by a bank and ditch and accessed by a causeway. #HillfortsWednesday Excavations have revealed that it has a long history dating back to the Neolithic period when it was created as a henge. 📷 Horatio More: http://www.megalithi...

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

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

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Bø-Elveterrassen

Barrow Cemetery in Buskerud, Norway

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

The terrace and most of the barrows have pine trees growing in and around them however the barrows are easily visible and well marked in the terrain. To the west of the cemetery is a flat grain field. The cemetery is close to the edge where the terrain slopes down to the river. 📷 kenntha88 More:

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

Bø-Elveterrassen: This very pretty and well-preserved barrow cemetery #TombTuesday is located about 100km SW of Oslo on a flat natural terrace overlooking the Lågen river to the east.

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Pete Crane @petecrane.bsky.social · 1d

Aldourie close to #LochNess ; moved and rebuilt and thought to possibly come from a dismembered Clava-type tomb …. #TombTuesday

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Five large boulder stones forming part of a circle under a beach tree with autumn leaves on the ground

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The Smell of Water @smellofwater.bsky.social · 3d

Passage Grave Art & A Giantess teessidepsychogeography.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/p... #StandingStoneSunday @megalithic.bsky.social

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The Smell of Water @smellofwater.bsky.social · 3d

Stan Beckensall, one of the loveliest blokes you could meet. See ya Stan. #StandingStoneSunday @megalithic.bsky.social

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Amy Tryphena @realkernow.bsky.social · 3d

The uniquely Cornish Boleigh Fogou with the creep entrance there on the right #StandingStoneSunday @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social #kernow

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

...and that's more than you can say for Coflein: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/300889/

English – Coflein

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

We have that on our page www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?... it didn't reproduce on the tweet unfortunately.

Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr)

Stone Circle in Conwy, Wales

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

It has a portalled entrance consisting of 4 stones and according to Burl may have been raised as early as 3000BC. 📷 Horatio More: http://www.megalithi...

Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr)

Stone Circle in Conwy, Wales

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

Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr): This fantastic ring of around 30 stones #StandingStoneSunday stands on the headland of Penmaenmawr above Conwy, close to a prehistoric trackway and three other stone circles.

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

Stèles de Saint-Philibert: Two Iron Age stèles next to Saint-Philibert's chapel in Finistère. #StandingStoneSunday 📷 peulven More: http://www.megalithi...

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

Dolmen de Brucou: How about this dolmen for a garden feature? You could almost use it as a picnic table... 📷 peulven More: http://www.megalithi...

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

Limewash obscuring the decoration was removed in 1867, revealing part of a runic inscription. The shaft was moved to its present position in the 1920s. 📷 histon More: http://www.megalithi...

Crowle Stone

Early Christian Sculptured Stone in Lincolnshire, England

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

Crowle Stone: This impressive carved stone now has pride of place inside St Oswald's church in Crowle, Lincolnshire. There is also a substantial medieval cross in the churchyard. The former was reused as the lintel of the twelfth-century doorway between the west tower and nave.

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

Angkor Thom: Ancient Khmer Temple in Cambodia, next to the better known Angkor Wat Temple. 📷 karolus More: http://www.megalithi...

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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 6d

We stood and pondered on the stones,whose plan displays their pattern still; the small blunt arc, and, sill by sill, the pockets stripped of shards and bones.
The legend has it, Ossian lies
beneath this landmark on the hill

Excerpt from Ossian’s Grave, John Hewitt (1962)

#nationalpoetryday

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for sharing, what a great night that was.

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 6d

A small enclosure occurs adjacent to it, and a pair of standing stones is located less than 300m to the SW. Set in pasture dominated by rock outcrops, the row has a general NE-SW orientation and measures 10.5m overall. 📷 Jackanol More: http://www.megalithi...

Garrough

Stone Row / Alignment in Co. Kerry, Ireland (Republic of)

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 6d

Garrough: Visible from the road and impressive when you get close, this four-stone row is located on a level terrace on the southern side of the Coomnahorna river, and commands an extensive view along the valley to Darrynane Bay to the west.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks, a great night that was, here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-3-...

Slomo discuss their Fogou inspired album "The Creep" with Joseph Stannard and Stephen O'Malley

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 7d

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Sacred Sites and Megalithic Mysteries: A list of Stonehenge hypotheses : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 7d

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Morrisjonathan @jonathanmorris.bsky.social · 11d

In essence, Ken's using a base-12 counting system at the 30 stones of the perimeter and then finishing that up with 5 trilithon sets to represent the final few days of a year. Looks new @megalithic.bsky.social @public-history.bsky.social @peteglastonbury.bsky.social @clonehenge.bsky.social ?

Morrisjonathan @jonathanmorris.bsky.social · 11d

kenfollettauthor.bsky.social's new novel (Circle of Days) seems to contain a new theory for the meaning of Stonehenge!
It's not in my "Stonehenge hypotheses" list (on @megalithic.bsky.social's site), and pretty sure I would know of this one if it existed beforehand.

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