The @wainwrightprize.bsky.social shortlist is out ... and Stone Lands is on it! AMAZING. Thank you everyone involved in making the book (especially Philip Harris who did the beautiful illustrations) and in selecting it – what an honour this is 💚
Fiona Robertson
@stonelands.bsky.social
Megalith geek, writer, editor, author of STONE LANDS
There’s a wonderful review of Stone Lands in @antiquity.ac.uk! It really brings out the emotional pull these ancient places have for so many of us. I love it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New Book Chronicle: Megaliths and Neolithic societies in northern and western Europe | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
New Book Chronicle: Megaliths and Neolithic societies in northern and western Europe - Volume 100 Issue 412
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#DailyMegalith #standingstonesunday Ollie at the Menhirs de Kernars, #Saint-Barthélemy #Morbihan #Brittany #France (2022) These are granite, the one on the right is c. 4.2m, the other one is 3.2m 🏺
I'm heading off to Brittany tomorrow for four weeks of writing, painting and stone hunting! I plan to visit some old favourites and hopefully take in some new megalithic sites too... #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
Belatedly catching up with last Saturday's Times and delighted to see prehistory - Stone Lands by @stonelands.bsky.social - mentioned in 'What to read on holiday'. The challenge now is to get something Roman into next year's feature ...
So brill to finally meet @stonelands.bsky.social and family and spend fun #StandingStoneSunday morning looking at stones in the Arthog hills. Looking forward to the next book!
Built for people long forgotten, now called Hetty Pegler’s Tump remembering a seventeenth century landowning woman, and, judging by the flickering candle in the heart of the chamber and the rich smell of incense in the air, still very much a place of gathering and commemoration five millennia later.
I have to say @stonelands.bsky.social that this is the most annoying book that I have read for some time! 😅 There are so many interesting people and places mentioned that I have to stop every couple of pages to check on Instagram or Google for another fascinating connection. Brilliant read so far!
Table des Marchands dolmen, Locmariaquer, Brittany, July 2023. The dolmen was rebuilt inside a cairn in 1993 following excavation. The carved stele at the back of the dolmen appears to depict shepherds' crooks, perhaps reflecting the pastoral culture of the monument builders. #TombTuesday
Carreg Samson because 1. It's #TombTuesday and this is a really great Neolithic dolmen and 2. I'm excited to be heading to wonderful Wales very soon! (Although not Pembrokeshire.)
#TombTuesday the old sacred portal to New Grange, Ireland, when I visited with a bike & tent in 1989 The great spiral entrance stone flanks the door, with original closing slab, right, & roof box above 🥰 It's all now rather heavily re-engineered to allow for large groups of visitors 🤔 📷My own
Part of the interior of Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn on Rousay - one of the Orkney islands. The cairn dates to the Neolithic, and is a wonderful example of a two-storey cairn with chambers on top of each other. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Rousay #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney
I know a Langdale Axe when I see one! The Irish came to northwest England (and probably East Riding / Wales) a LOT in the Neolithic. Particularly around the same time stone circles started showing up in the landscape!
Archaeology Magazine@archaeologymag.bsky.social · 2w agoThe discovery of two 6,000-year-old houses in Ireland yielded two particularly interesting stone axes. Archaeologists think one was placed as a ritual offering, and the other was made across the Irish Sea in what’s now England … archaeology.org/news/2026/07/16/neolithic-homes-excavated-in-ireland/
Sunday reading… so fantastic to get @hookland.bsky.social in book form. A portal into the weirdscape that’s actually realer than reality. I love the idea of ‘Re-enchantment as resistance’, yes let’s do that please! ✨✨✨
Just patting myself on the back, to find that I actually have some of the 2026 #WainwrightPrize longlist on my shelves. Many congratulations to @nicolawriting.bsky.social, @drmjwarren.bsky.social, @stonelands.bsky.social, @eloi.se and all the other authors who've made it this far. #Kudos
When John Wood surveyed Stanton Drew in 1740, ‘A storm accidentally arose just after, and blew down Part of a Great Tree near the Body of the Work, the People then thoroughly satisfied that I had disturbed the Guardian Spirits of the metamorphosed Stones.’ #WyrdWednesday 🎨 William Stukeley
This is pretty amazing ... feeling very proud and grateful.
Last month I got to visit the awesome 5,000-year-old Isbister Cairn in Orkney aka the Tomb of the Eagles, which has only just reopened post Covid thanks to a community buy-out. And you get to enter flat on your back via a trolley. Great stuff! #TombTuesday
#TombTuesday 💀 the magnificent remains of Carn Turne chambered tomb nr Wolfscastle, Pembrokeshire, which sit on a rare lowland tract of uncleared, boulder-strewn moorland The vast, collapsed capstone (right) is flanked by giant uprights of the forecourt 😮 Well worth a visit 👌 📷 My own, 2022
The remains of Cairn o'Get chambered burial cairn in north-east Caithness. The cairn dates to the Neolithic and is part of a rich prehistoric landscape. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Caithness
Fiona Robertson, author of the acclaimed Stone Lands, takes us on a journey through Britain's standing stones – from the charismatic antiquarians who first documented them to today's megalith enthusiasts. 🏛️ Tickets available through our website or at the museum reception desk. 🎟️
The Stanerandy Stones, near Birsay (Orkney). In a mystical haze that may or may not be sunscreen on the camera lens. I waded knee deep through buttercups to reach them, so was sneezing a lot in that moment #StandingStoneSunday
Talk to the stone! The local branch of the Stones of Stenness Appreciation Society captured communing with the ancestors on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday #Sheep
