Bronze age stone circle at Doll Tor, Stanton Moor, Derbyshire. This was a little off the beaten track, but all the more special for it
#stonecircles #standingstones #sacredsites #Derbyshire #photography
Bronze age stone circle at Doll Tor, Stanton Moor, Derbyshire. This was a little off the beaten track, but all the more special for it
#stonecircles #standingstones #sacredsites #Derbyshire #photography
Happy Monday, everyone!
I've got a new piece of writing on my blog, if you're interested 😊
"Somewhere between remembrance and forgetting, we can meet, we can witness each other, me and these stones, these wells. Something is alive here, but it won't always be, and just possibly, it shouldn't."
https://2ruth.blog/2026/06/14/half-forgotten-places/
#standingstones #springsandwells #sacredsites #remembranceandforgetting
#photography #creativenonfiction #writing #NomadicHearts
A recent peregrination, with an accomplice. St. Edith’s Well, so hidden by foliage and time that it took us half an hour to find, a rusty wrought iron grille barring entrance to the forbidden pool. The Wergin’s Stone, alone in a distant field, all but invisible from the road, caged in shiny angular metal. A […]
Went out looking for #Holywells #springs and #standingstones today ... spent a lot of time climbing gates, puzzling over the OS map, and getting lost in foliage. I do have some pictures of the actual things we found, but not downloaded from the camera yet. My friend, Sara, sent me this pic, and it kind of sums up our adventure 🤣
"It’s an ancient kinship, this connection I feel to rocks and stones. They stand witness to repeated human passage, waypoints in the landscape, marked across millennia."
New post on my blog 😁
#PlaceWriting #LandscapeHistory #StandingStones #StoneCircles #AncientSites #NomadicHearts #photography #creativenonfiction
#1298 Cheryl Straffon (ed) - Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites in Cornwall - No 46, Autumn 2001. Meyn Mamvro, St Just.
#CherylStraffon #MeynMamvro #EarthMysteries #Archaeology #Cornwall #Kernow #StandingStones #Scilly #Truro #BookOfTheDay
The Maen Cadoar, thought to be a Christianised menhir, in the churchyard at Camborne in Cornwall. Photo taken on 21 August 2004.
#Camborne #StandingStoneSunday #Menhirs #AncientCrosses #Cornwall #StandingStones
#1289 Ian Edelman - Discovering Avebury. Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, 1995, Shire Discovery No 280, 1st edition, 6th impression.
#IanEdelman #ShirePublications #Avebury #StandingStones #Megaliths #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay