Mike Efstathiou
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Mike Efstathiou
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PhD Researcher into prehistoric British avenues. A lover of landscapes and all things Mesolithic and Neolithic.

Formerly a live music Sound Engineer and Studio/Live Outside Broadcast Producer with an additional career as an IT Service Architect
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A lovely example from the Callanish II stone circle, for #StandingstoneSunday.

Isle of Lewis, May 2024.
March 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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The remaining Drumtroddan standing stone, Near Port William, Dumfries and Galloway.

#StandingStoneSunday
March 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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At Waun Mawn in September 2021, during Mike Parker Pearson’s excavations.

#StandingStoneSunday
March 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Rainbows and Mike Allen during a walk along the standing stones of the West Kennet Avenue in March 2024.

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Mike Allen points to the end of the rainbow!
March 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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One of the stones of the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney.

Visited in May 2024 during my PhD search for Scottish avenues.

#StandingStoneSunday
A close-up of the standing stones.
March 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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On Machrie Moor, with the Neolithic Studies Group, enjoying the megaliths.

Arran, May 2023.

#StandingStoneSunday
February 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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A large standing stone at the Prehistoric Burial Cairns of Bulnuaran of Clava.

Clava Cairns, near Inverness. Visited in May 2024 during my search for Scottish avenues.

#StandingStoneSunday
February 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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In the foreground stones of the Callanish 3 circle, with in the background those of the Callanish 2 stone circle.

Visited in May 2024.

#StandingStoneSunday
February 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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A single stone a short walk from the Barnhouse Settlement on Orkney. Just by the Loch of Harray.

Visited on my 2024 Avenues tour of Scotland.

#standingstonesunday
January 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The Cop Stone, on Moor Divock, Cumbria.

Photographed July 2024 during a search for prehistoric avenues….

#StandingStoneSunday
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January 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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The lone standing stone just to the south of the stone rows of Merrivale, Dartmoor.

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January 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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A beautiful stone at Stanton Drew, photographed during the Stukeley 300 weekend in July 2023.

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January 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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The remaining standing stones at the henge and stone circle of the Broomend of Crichie, near Inverurie, Scotland.

Recorded by James Richie in 1920, and partly excavated by Richard Bradley in 2011.

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The three remaining standing stones in the henge at the Broomend of Crichie.
December 29, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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The recumbent stone and it's flankers of the East Aquhorthies Stone Circle near Inverurie, Scotland.
Visited during my Spring 2024 tour of Scotland and the Isles in search of prehistoric avenues. (PS, there isn't one here that we know of....)

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December 22, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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The Claire and Frank online show (that’s Tuffy and Prendergast, respectively) was wonderful this Solstice morning, waxing lyrical about the Neolithic of Ireland and the passage grave of Newgrange.

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Newgrange and a misty sunrise. The entrance stone at Newgrange
December 21, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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'G' is for Girdle Stanes, a partially destroyed stone circle in Dumfries and Galloway. I recently walked the landscape here in search of the supposed avenue. Did I find it?

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The Girdle Stanes, in the distance, was partially destroyed by the River Esk.
December 20, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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The central stone of the Stripple Stones, an unusual circle within a henge on Bodmin Moor, close to Hawks Tor.

#standingstonesunday
December 15, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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F is for Forteviot, a late Neolithic palisaded enclosure in Perth & Kinross, Scotland. Somewhere in this field are traces of a timber avenue leading to the enclosure.

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An open field seen from the boundary. Photographed during my visit in May 2024.
December 11, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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This is what I emptied this evening…..
December 8, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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An enigmatic alignment in the Stronsay Firth, Orkney, for #standingstonesunday
December 8, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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'D' is for Dunragit, where a timber avenue led into the palisaded enclosure. Dated: 3080–2570 cal. BC.

This is a view from the Droghduil Mote to the approximate location in the far field.

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The view from the mound across to the far field, the approximate location of the palisaded enclosure. Droghduil Mote
December 5, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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Maen Mawr at Cerrig Duon for #standingstonesunday. A beautiful, and solid stone.
December 1, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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Maen Mawr at Cerrig Duon for @standingstonesunday. A beautiful, and solid stone.
December 1, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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‘C’ is Callanish avenue, which has both astronomical and landscape orientations.

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Looking away from the stone circle, along the avenue to the south. The view along the approach from the south.
November 28, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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'A' is for Arbor Low Avenue, in Derbyshire.

Now, is this an embanked avenue or a field boundary??

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The view to the southeast from the bank of the henge to the hills along the “avenue”. The view northwards along the "avenue" to the henge.
November 23, 2024 at 11:06 AM