Solstice sunrise @ Rollright.
(Not this one, it must be said, but it transcends time, dunnit).
#photography #Solstice #sunrise #RollrightStones

I'd like to with everyone a Blessed Litha!

The Holly King rises and the Oak King steps back, now we turn towards winter.

I visited the Rollright Stones on Friday and setup a small altar, it's becoming a little tradition for me. However you choose to celebrate it, may your celebration be peaceful and joyous!

#litha #solstice #summersolstice #pagan #paganism #rollrightstones #stonecircle #oakking #hollyking #wheeloftheyear

NEW! #BarnOwl at #Rollright is just finished!
It's the first #painting I've done for weeks due to frequent interruptions from various building projects at home.
I hope you like it & thx for looking 🙏
Watercolour, 352mm x 237mm, £225. Msg me!
#standingstoneSunday #rollrightstones #megalithic #art #birds #tytoalba

I’m making great progress on my latest #painting: a hand painted #map of the main #megalithic sites in #Oxfordshire.

I have literally no idea why I didn’t paint this yeeeears ago.

#workinprogress #standingstones #ancientstonebothering #StandingStoneSunday #stonecircles #rollrightstones #waylandssmithy #uffingtonwhitehorse

The ‘Whispering Knights’ - the remains of an early Neolithic burial chamber in Oxfordshire. The chamber is part of the Rollright Stones complex, with stone circle and standing stone nearby. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Oxfordshire #RollrightStones
This collapsed portal dolmen is part of the Rollright Stones threesome of monuments along the border between Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England in the Cotswolds region. It dates from around 6000 years ago, early/middle Neolithic period. Its capstone has fallen and lies beside the upright stones and is not shown in this image. The stones are collected (not quarried) local oolitic limestone and are deeply pockmarked by the weather. It is known as the 'Whispering Knights' and there is much folklore associated with this and the newer nearby stone circle. It is humbling to think that this design from that period is found across Europe, Russia, Middle-East, India and especially Korea (which has at least 40% of the world's dolmens alone!).


#cotswolds #rollrightstones #whisperingknights #dolmen #neolithic #oxfordshire #england
Staying for a bit more near #WatfordGap, this week visited #BletchleyPark, the #RollrightStones couple more places near #Banbury and #Coventry, the #CastleRing and lots of highway junctions.

Today I made another pilgrimage to the historic Rollright Stones, it's always great to be there.

The Rollright Stones are a complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, they are used for modern Pagan ritual and have folklore tales associated with them.

#neolithic #bronzeage #stonecircle #pagan #heathen #rollrightstones #ritual #history #photo #photography #megalith #megaliths