Andy Burnham's Blog, page 236

Pentre Ifan

A collagraph print of Pentre Ifan, by Avril Macdonald, which is part of an exhibition running from the 13th to 30th March at the Barbican Centre Library in London. More details here. Also Sem has created a video guide to five easy to visit sites in Wales, which also features Pentre Ifan. You can watch the video in our forum.. One of the most spectacular and famous monuments of its type it consists of a tilted capstone perched on three uprights. A blocking stone obstructs the doorway and a semi-circular forecourt is found at the southern end.

Althau Menhirs

In the Althau forest east of Oberlunkhofen two formidable erratics of over 100 tonnes each form the central nodes of a complex network of over 70 stones, at least 30 of which are standing. Some of the menhirs have been re-erected in the last few years

Dyffryn Ardudwy

Dyffryn Ardudwy Burial Chambers are an attractive monument, easy to find and, for once, easy to get to. Two well preserved dolmens, 8.6 meters apart on a bed of white boulders, remain of a two stage structural sequence: A completely closed portal dolmen in its own round cairn was built first. Soon afterwards this was incorporated into a wedge shaped cairn with a larger chamber near the Eastern end fronted by a V-shaped forecourt.

Doigt de Gargantua (Côtes-D'Armor)

This 2.5 metre tall, thin menhir stands guard beside the footpath overlooking the splendid Forte de la Latte, at the headland of the same name to the east of Cap Fréhel. There is a tremendous panorama of all the sea and headlands around, and with the fort below from near here, and it is a lovely walk in a most splendidly scenic area.

Cliffe Castle Museum

Modern Stone Circle in the 'Garden of Life' in the grounds of Cliffe Castle, near Keighley, west Yorkshire. For rock-art afficianados, a couple of well-presented examples have found a home in this West Yorksire museum. There's a very good 'virtual tour' of the nearby Rombald's Moor, showing photographs of many of the cup-and-ring carvings, with their relative positions.

Castro de São Lourenço

Castro de São Lourenço is a Castro in the community of Vila Chã near the town of Esposende, District of Braga, North Portugal. There are several restored Celtic homes and a small museum. It is a beautiful site with a great view from the church which was obviously added later.

Avebury

A side of Avebury you don't often see - here's the 'z' feature in front of the chapel, in the snow. More new photos of Avebury from Humbucker on our page
. Stone Circle in Wiltshire. As well as the main ~500m diameter circle there are the remains of two inner circular features, one of which may have been a horseshoe. Two Avenues (one now destroyed) connected to the circle.

Andy B's next talk date: Mysterious Earth Conference nr Preston, Sunday 10th Mar

Andy B's next talk date is Sunday 10th March, Preston, Lancashire at the Mysterious Earth Conference. This is our only talk scheduled for the North of England at the moment, and we have a specially extended talk in two parts, created and delivered with Christine Clarke, who was one of the 'inner circle' volunteer team on our Old Stones book.

Butterdon Down West

On a gorgeous winters February day, I decided to find this Dartmoor standing stone which had no pictures on the Portal, and it’s a beautiful spot. . Likely Standing Stone on the western slopes of Butterdon Down, a couple of miles north of Moretonhampstead in Devon.

The Elsdon Stone

Elsdon, Northumberland, is known as the old capital of Redesdale. Today it is a small village clustered around a village green, with pub, St Cuthbert's church, coffee shop and the remains of a motte and bailey castle and tower house (bastle). St Cuthbert's contains the Elsdon Stone, said to be unique in Britain, as it is the only tombstone which sets out the entire military career of a Roman officer. The church also contains some fine medieval cross and grave slabs.