"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

https://2ruth.blog/2026/06/02/an-ancient-kinship/

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‘The sum of rests’ prehistoric arrow print is now available mounted from my print shop (and Etsy) https://willowhouseprints.uk/shop/the-sum-of-rests-arrow-engraving-edition-of-10-in-a4-mount/ and there’s a few quid off for the next week. UK only I’m sorry to say #prehistory #stonecircles #reliefprint #printmaking

#1275 L.V. Grinsell - The Megalithic Monuments of Stanton Drew. The Author, Bristol, 1994, 1st edition.

#LeslieVGrinsell #StantonDrew #Somerset #StoneCircles #Megaliths #Archaeology #BookOfTheDay

#1268 John Barnatt - Stone Circles of the Peak. Turnstone Press, London, 1978, 1st edition.

#JohnBarnatt #TurnstonePress #StoneCircles #Megaliths #Archaeology #PeakDistrict #BookOfTheDay

A sunny photo of Rothiemay recumbent stone circle in Moray from a few years back for today's #StandingStoneSunday

#StoneCircles

#1265 Cheryl Straffon (ed) - Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites in Cornwall - No 45, Summer 2001. Meyn Mamvro, St Just.

#CherylStraffon #MeynMamvro #EarthMysteries #Archaeology #Cornwall #Kernow #StoneCircles #HolyWells #BookOfTheDay

Stone Circles: A Field Guide - Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings [book review] #StoneCircles #megalithic #StandingStoneSunday https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/saj.2026.0230
Avebury may not be just a ritual site—it could represent Earth’s shape and tilt. Did ancient builders understand more about our planet than we think?
#AncientMysteries #Avebury #HiddenHistory #AncientKnowledge #StoneCircles
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/henge-world-001781
Daisies among the stones. Din Lligwy, Anglesey #pencilsketch #sketchbook #standingstones #stonecircles #ancientsites