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Recently, there have been quite a few archaeological revelations coming to light from the result of a wildfire that swept the moors of Fylingdales, N. Yorkshire. One of the items discovered is a “unique” carved stone, thought to be 4,000 years old. An article about the stone (from CULTURE 24) is below  but before reading that, [...]

Rupert and I were wary of including mention of the Druids in ‘Standing with Stones’. Their mythical association with Stonehenge and megalithic sites in general is well ingrained and enduring despite the yawning millennia between the construction of these sites and the first mention of the Druids in history. William Stukely’s idea that the stone [...]

Just sit back and enjoy this film by Tony Partington. As a film maker myself, I am a bit in awe of the vision, craft and patience needed to get results like this.
I advise you watch it in full-screen mode.
“Lapse of Memory” aims to give a new visual perspective on some of the prehistoric sites [...]

This might be slightly Off-Topic for this blog, seeing as the site talked about is mostly Roman, but the huge stones must be worth a mention!
Original article here.
If you are fascinated by the massive stone structures of Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, the temple ruins of Baalbeck will put you at your wits’ [...]

During the making of “Standing with Stones” Rupert and I found ourselves on July 5th 2006 standing on busy Cannon Street in the middle of the City of London. How come? Well, that question is answered in the clip below. Even so, it was pretty surreal to mind ourselves filming an ancient prehistoric monument inside [...]

The following is the abstract of a paper presented to the Valcamonica Symposium by Dukso Aleksovski in 2007.
“Cocev Kamen is one of the most imposing and significant cultural monument (with geographic coordinates N. 42o.05’. 024’’ and E. 021o. 59’ and 227’’ and an elevation of 481m). On the left hand side of the rock, near [...]

A little reminder to us all.
This image found at The Earth Room at the bottom of a page dedicated to personal photos of ancient monuments and places of peace. Apparently this sign is at the Findhorn Foundation – the spiritual and holistic community on the North East of Scotland.
“There are many special places on the [...]

“Kilmartin Glen, in Argyll, has one of the most important concentrations of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in Europe. The glen contains at least 350 ancient monuments, many of them prehistoric, including burial cairns, rock carvings and standing stones.  But archaeologists have identified a period of almost 1,000 years in which no monuments were erected [...]

“Sometimes, like Nine Stones in Dorset, our ancient monuments stand neglected by the roadside, virtually unnoticed by passing motorists and unvisited by all but the enthusiast”.

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“Stone rows are a bit of a mystery and Dartmoor has the greatest concentration anywhere. There are over sixty of them dotted across the moor – and of such variety that they must have had many different functions.
I’m at Merrivale, right in the middle of Dartmoor and this site has a bit of everything: [...]

This magnificent stone circle is the first that we ever shot serious footage at for ‘Standing with Stones’. Sadly though, Scorhill does not appear in the final film. Why? Well, Rupert and I first shot ’serious footage’ for Standing with Stones way back in 2001 – and then we were not filming for the DVD [...]

“A pagan couple who moved into a suburban estate in Dorset brought with them their own prehistoric stone circle.
John and Suky Burton imported the 13 prehistoric stones from their former Weymouth mansion when they downsized to a detached house in Dorchester last weekend.
The stone circle megalith was originally erected in the grounds of Abbotts Court [...]

How to make Bronze Age beer.
I’ll say no more – except to say that if I had my time over and somebody had said make a film about Standing Stones and stuff that’ll take you two years to complete and a whole lot of work getting it noticed – or – investigate the making of [...]

I was wanting to do some research on North American prehistory and investigate the possibility of using the North American Indian culture and belief system as a tool for approaching the mindset of our European Neolithic and Bronze Age ancestors. I quickly came across web references to the site known as ‘America’s Stonehenge’ – formerly [...]