*MEGALITHOMANIA*
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My favourite of the Callanish Standing Stones (with one of it's friends) which have stood for about 5000 years. Isle of Lewis, Scotland
a short trip to the northern province of Drenthe.
Here it ends; these three images are the last upload in this series....
Since my company is going virtual, I have been making room to bring office paraphernalia to my home office...that means going through old photo albums and boxes of pre-digital images. Huge project, but it has given me the opportunity to revisit places I travel to with my late husband in the '90s and early 2000s - nothing earlier because of the Oakland fire in 1991. It has been fun and poignant. It reminds me of one of the values of photography - memories attach themselves to images.
Explore #340 7/7/20
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A reconstruction of a Neolithic farm-house which doubled as a pottery, based on excavations on a settlement at Blicquy, "Petite Rosière", Hainault, Belgium, dating to 5000-4750 B.C. and one of the oldest found in this region.
At the Archeosite - Aubechies-Beloeil, which both has a museum with many Roman finds and reconstructions of pre-historic housing and Roman buildings which would have been found in this part of the northern Roman empire.
Presqu'île de Milliau, Trebeurden
The dolmen ("covered path", Allée Couverte) is initially built as a corridor under a tumulus.
This megalithic monument is a collective tomb.
The covered walkways appear as an evolution of the dolmens: they are on average more recent than these, and end in the Late Neolithic (of the polished stone age) and in the Chalcolithic (copper age, before the bronze age).
Crédit Photo : POPH
Sunrise at Avebury. Around 4,500 years ago, when the site of England's capital was a thinly inhabited marshland, the area around Avebury almost certainly formed the Neolithic equivalent of a city. By coincidence this waterway has become a link between the two largest cultural centres of their day to have ever existed in the British Isles. As London now contains most of England's largest buildings Avebury is the location of the mightiest megalithic complex to have ever been constructed in Britain. This henge with its enormous ditch, bank, stones and avenues survives in a much depleted state.
An interesting ruined 12c Norman church within a Neolithic Henge.
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Castlerigg is perhaps the most atmospheric and dramatically sited of all British stone circles, with panoramic views and the mountains of Helvellyn and High Seat as a backdrop. It's also among the earliest British circles, raised in about 3000 BC during the Neolithic period.
Margaret and I found this to be a most rewarding visit - with wonderful light - we stayed in the centre of Keswick, so it was within fairly easy walking distance. Had to wait for the 'stone huggers' to clear off before taking this !! A lot of people like to visit here and soak up the atmosphere, not surprisingly.
Textures: My own, and one from PicMonkey.
This part of Bodmin Moor, near Minions, a few miles north of Liskeard, has the remains of three neolithic stone circles known as The Hurlers, which are thought to date from around 1500 BC. Scheduled as an ancient monument in 1981, The Hurlers are under the care of the Cornwall Heritage Trust.
Tin and copper mining took place throughout this area until early in the 20th century, and many of the engine houses and other remains can still be seen. This eastern part of the moor is known as the Caradon Mining Area. A tramway linked it to Moorswater at Likeard, and then a canal (and later a railway) linked it to the port of Looe.
Castlerigg Stone Circle, Nr Keswick, Cumbria (about 3000 BC)
Castlerigg has a solar alignment and is used in solstice celebrations.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/castlerigg-stone...
At least some of them. The location of these Standing Stones is about two kilometres north-east of St Columb Major, Cornwall. Since Christian times, this neolithic stone row has been known as the "Nine Sisters" or the "Nine Maidens" - and that is not meant in a positive way (in the battle against the old religion the pre-Christian monuments were blacklisted: nine girls dancing on holy Sunday were turned to stone. There you are). The stones are still standing. They have survived for almost 5000 years. It is quite appropriate that the clouds on this day were touching the earth. The correlation of heaven and earth must have been on the minds of the people who built the stone row. Edited in Fuji's raw converter and refined in Luminar.