Birkrigg Stone Circle. 3500 years old. Ulverston England
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Prehistoric landscapes, skyscapes, cosmology, folklore & nature. Meirionnydd #StandingStones PhD researcher Bournemouth Uni. Cymraes dw i. (She/they).
"Although Hecate later became widely known as a goddess associated with crossroads, magic, and the underworld, archaeological and literary evidence suggests her earliest cult emphasized protection, liminality, and lunar associations." wildhunt.org/2026/08/afte...
After 113 Years, Hecate Regains Temple Long Attributed to Demeter - Europe, News, Paganism, TWH Features, Uncovering the Past, Witchcraft, World
Witchcraft & Pagan News - After more than a century of uncertainty, archaeologists have identified a temple in Türkiye once attributed to Demeter as a rare sanctuary of Hecate, reshaping understanding...
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Moel Offrwm (bare hill of sacrifice) - that bumpy hill in the distance - offering up two hillforts - one Iron Age and one possibly Bronze Age for #HillfortWednesday
Standing on Bryn Castell Hillfort looking over the wall. Great view of the Mawddach Estuary. Very windy day! #HillfortWednesday 📷 My own
Bryn y Castell, Ffestiniog. #HillfortWednesday This small defended hilltop fort was completely excavated from 1979-85 and the rampart and stone buildings in the interior have been partially reconstructed. The site produced remarkable evidence of iron-working Photo: my own this week
The huge Bronze Age walled settlement of Grimspound looking a bit like an alien landing site in yesterday’s evening light on Dartmoor. Remains of some of the 24 stone roundhouses visible. #HillfortWednesday (sort of) #Dartmoor
#TombTuesday a summit cairn for the Bronze Age dead at Moel y Llyn, Ceredigion, high above Cardigan Bay. Not a bad spot for the ancestors to rest.. 📷 My own, April 2022
What is the Genius Loci Digest? I don't believe stories only exist in books. They're written into the places we inhabit. There are whispers within the walls. The world is storied - we simply have to learn how to read it. 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
Want a book about the end of the southern British Iron Age, the Roman invasion and the greatest king of this island has ever had? If only such a thing existed...🤔 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/caratacus... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social January 2027 #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺
Those of us who have been asleep for at least half a century. (I like that these have eroded in horizontal lines, making them look a little like ghosts of analogue broadcast televsion)
Toby Miller@tobytram.bsky.social · 3d agoThe meeting places of the parched land.
Some stone pilgrims come to connect to the energy they feel. Some to make communion with the dead, to sit with the stones' stories. In this brutal heat, I slump in the shadow of the Long Neolithic, grateful for bothi it shade and ongoing mysteries. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
A beautiful standing stone in a stunning setting in the Arthog hills, one of several shown to me by local expert @philolithia.bsky.social who is studying the area for her PhD. What a fantastic day out that was! #StandingStoneSunday
Another offering from the Arthog stone setting, taken from the nearby cairn and showing the white quartz boulder of the monument gleaming out from below the white quartz outcrop of the hill above for #StandingStoneSunday
For those who wonder if this is important: Robledo is Spain's Radio telescope and deep space radio antenna. It covers 120 degrees of NASA's communications for anything currently flying around from Voyager downwards. It is also a pretty important part of Europe's VLBI. 1/
A delicate Lammas dress from 1902 by Gustav Beer, richly decorated with silken wheat stalks, for drinking chouchen and telling fortunes in an old country garden, as a great golden moon rises in the dark Breton sky.
The decommissioning of Jodrell Bank feels like the decommissioning of Alan Garner. No to disenchantment. Yes to re-enchantment and the filaments thereof. #Hookland
Often on trance-walks I can’t quite retrace my twists and turns going back: my thread could be left or right; everywhere could be The Way. Special one-day offer for #YorkshireDay: 35% off Matthew Clegg's excellent debut collection 'West North East' westnortheast.wordpress.com
Forest Dream Intense light rays in a beech forest. Upper Bavaria, Germany #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #fog
Latest Thornborough Aerial Survey Completed | YAA Mapping in conjunction w/ EH and TAG have released the latest aerial survey images of the Thornborough Neolithic Henge complex, images taken end of July 2026 during the latest drought. (Near Ripon, North Yorkshire) thornboroughag.org/2026/07/31/l...
The perfect not too warm, not too windy, weather for walking down the hill this morning and with perfect blueness and cottonwool clouds. Now back to the laptop and writing up🤓
The Corleck Head • Cavan As we're in the time of Lughnasa, it gives me an excuse to share one of my favourite artefacts in @nmireland.bsky.social – the Corleck Head. It was found in 1855 near Corleck Hill in County Cavan, where a Lughnasa festival was regularly held. #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm
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Miniature, 40,000-year old ivory birds discovered in German cave
Researchers say they have discovered two tiny ivory bird figurines in a cave in Germany, where early modern humans used tools to make Ice Age art, some 40,000 years ago. The figurines, discovered in t...
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When Lord #Elgin stripped the Treasury of #Atreus at #Mycenae in 1802, he left its monumental entrance a bare, undecorated skeleton. We look at these fragments today and forget they were once part of a dazzling Late Bronze Age façade. #ReliefWednesday #AncientBluesky 🏺
