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Mostly UK wildlife and prehistory. A drinker of real ale, real cider & real coffee. Wolves FC supporter. All 📸 my own.
The Rudston Monolith, East Yorkshire, last weekend. It’s really quite large. Visit it if you ever get the chance, photos don’t do it justice. #StandingStoneSunday #RudstonMonolith #EastYorkshire #Yorkshire @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
Police telephone box & gull, Scarborough, N. Yorkshire. Grade 2 listed, c.1920. Thought it would be bigger inside tbh. #Scarborough #PoliceBox #IndustrialArchaeology #Yorkshire #Tardis
The hugely impressive Rudston Monolith, East Yorkshire, this morning. Measuring in at just under 8m & made of gritstone the Rudston Monolith is the largest standing stone in Britain. #StandingStoneSunday #EastYorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
Homemade cider at the impeccable Swinside stone circle, last Friday. #StandingStoneSunday #Swinside #Sunkenkirk #Cumbria @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @ciderreview.bsky.social
Little Meg, near Glassonby, Cumbria. A small circle, 650m NE of Long Meg, formed by a ring of kerb stones (the remnants of a destroyed burial cairn) one of which shows a spiral motif and concentric circle. 🌀 #StandingStoneSunday #LittleMeg #Cumbria @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
A Beltane visit to Long Meg and her Daughters. Long Meg has it all, a red sandstone monolith with rock art next to a huge stone circle of 69 stones. Remains of a cursus and ditched enclosure have also been found. 👌 #StandingStoneSunday #LongMeg #Cumbria @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
Toads doing toad stuff, Lowick Common, South Cumbria. #CommonToad #MénageÀTrois #Cumbria #LakeDistrict @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @cumbriabdc.bsky.social @arc-trust.bsky.social
Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey. Originally a Neolithic henge enclosing a circle of stones, this was later replaced by a chambered tomb beneath a mound. The inner chamber is illuminated as the sun rises on the summer solstice. #TombTuesday #YnysMôn #Anglesey @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
Post-medieval clapper bridge at Troutbeck Park, Cumbria. #ClapperBridge #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #PostMedieval #MedievalMonday @postmedarch.bsky.social
St. Edmunds church in Southwold, Suffolk. Built c1430 the outside is decorated with impressive East Anglian flint flushwork and the original painted medieval rood screens still remain. #MedievalSky #MedievalMonday #Southwold #Suffolk #VisitSuffolk #Church #StEdmund
Winter sun setting at beach between Easton Bavents and Covehithe, Suffolk. 🌅 🌊 #Covehithe #EastonBavents #Beach #Suffolk #VisitSuffolk #NorthSea
Grey Seal pup on the coast near Beadnell, Northumberland, this morning. Presumably washed up during last nights strong winds. 🦭 #Northumberland #NorthumberlandCoast #Beadnell #Coast #Seal @northwildlife.bsky.social @mammalsociety.bsky.social
Beadnell, Northumberland, this morning. Three drake Velvet Scoter, Red-throated Diver and a couple of Snow Bunting were the bird highlights. 🌊 #Northumberland #NorthumberlandCoast #Beadnell #Coast #Waves #Birding #NEBirding @ntbirdclub.bsky.social
Denge sound (acoustic) mirrors. Built in the late 1920s/early 1930s as an experimental early warning system for incoming aircraft but as aircraft speed increased they were superseded by radar. The largest circular dish measures 9m across. #ScheduledMonument #MilitaryHistory #History #Kent #Dungeness
Pike of Stickle, #Cumbria, the heart of the Langdale axe industry. Langdale (Group VI) axes knapped from volcanic tuff have been found all over the UK notably at several Neolithic monuments. #StandingStoneSunday #GreatLangdale @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social @adamibbotson.bsky.social
Grass of Parnassus, Gowbarrow Fell, Cumbria. The county flower of both Cumbria in England and Sutherland in Scotland. #WildFlowerHour #MacroMonday #LakeDistrict @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @cumbriabdc.bsky.social
Common Field Grasshopper near Hexham, Northumberland. #MacroMonday #BugSky #Grasshopper #Hexham #Northumberland @northwildlife.bsky.social @xercessociety.bsky.social @britishwildlife.bsky.social
Chesterholm Milestone next to the Stanegate road near Vindolanda fort. Measuring 1.7m in height, it is the only intact Roman milestone to have remained in its original position. #StandingStoneSunday #Vindolanda #RomanBritain @vindolandatrust.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
Female Common Darter, near Hexham, Northumberland this afternoon. #Dragonfly #Dragonflies #Hexham #Northumberland @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @northwildlife.bsky.social
Bracken, Great Langdale, Cumbria. #FernFriday #Bracken #Fronds #GreatLangdale #Cumbria #LakeDistrict @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @cumbriabdc.bsky.social
Pentre Ifan, Pembrokeshire. Neolithic chambered tomb situated below the Preseli Hills, the source of the bluestones that went into the making of Stonehenge as well as Pentre Ifan itself. #StandingStoneSunday #TombTuesday #Dolmen #PentreIfan @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
Small Tortoiseshell butterfly, Sizergh, South Cumbria. #Butterfly #Cumbria #LakeDistrict @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @cumbriabdc.bsky.social
There’s just something about Machrie Moor. Machrie Moor 2, Isle of Arran. #StandingStoneSunday #MachrieMoor #Arran @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire. Founded in 1132 by monks from the Benedictine house of St. Mary’s, York, it became the wealthiest Cistercian monastery in England until its dissolution, by order of Henry VIII, in 1539. #MedievalMonday #MedievalSky #Yorkshire
Birkrigg Stone Circle, Birkrigg Common, near Bardsea, Cumbria. A.k.a The Druid’s Circle. Taken from the outer ring with Morecambe Bay in the distance. #StandingStoneSunday #Cumbria #Birkrigg #MorecambeBay @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social @morecambebay.bsky.social
Warnscale Beck, Buttermere, Cumbria. #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #Buttermere @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social @friendsoflakes.bsky.social
Giant’s Grave, Kirksanton, Cumbria. Black Combe rising in the distance. #StandingStoneSunday #Cumbria @megalithic.bsky.social @stoneclub.bsky.social
