Fiona Robertson
@stonelands.bsky.social
Megalith geek, writer, editor, author of STONE LANDS
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We just did the southern half of the Wild Atlantic Way. Just a few of the highlights of Ireland’s incredible prehistory.
June 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We just did the southern half of the Wild Atlantic Way. Just a few of the highlights of Ireland’s incredible prehistory.
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It can feel as if the stones cast a spell of perpetuation upon the landscape. Archetypes of transmission and reception echoed into a manifesting modernity. This is fanciful, but it's also one of the ways the Long Neolithic works – it infects our imaginations. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It can feel as if the stones cast a spell of perpetuation upon the landscape. Archetypes of transmission and reception echoed into a manifesting modernity. This is fanciful, but it's also one of the ways the Long Neolithic works – it infects our imaginations. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
A proud moment this summer: bagging a stone that isn't already on the @megalithic.bsky.social (very rare occurrence!). On the Beara peninsula east of Adrigole, a little way north of the Drumlave row. It involved crawling under barbed wire but then we saw there was a gate. #StandingStoneSunday
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A proud moment this summer: bagging a stone that isn't already on the @megalithic.bsky.social (very rare occurrence!). On the Beara peninsula east of Adrigole, a little way north of the Drumlave row. It involved crawling under barbed wire but then we saw there was a gate. #StandingStoneSunday
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For #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... Corrower Ogham Stone, Mayo, Ireland
A tall ogham stone with a worn inscription
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Neolithic #Megalithic #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Mayo
A tall ogham stone with a worn inscription
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Neolithic #Megalithic #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Mayo
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
For #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... Corrower Ogham Stone, Mayo, Ireland
A tall ogham stone with a worn inscription
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Neolithic #Megalithic #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Mayo
A tall ogham stone with a worn inscription
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Neolithic #Megalithic #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Mayo
German edition of STONE LANDS coming April 2026! The subtitle just seems so cool in German: Eine Reise durch Dunkelheit und Licht ❤️🪨❤️
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
German edition of STONE LANDS coming April 2026! The subtitle just seems so cool in German: Eine Reise durch Dunkelheit und Licht ❤️🪨❤️
The 5th/6th-century Selus Stone in St Just church - a testament to our perennial human tendency to mess things up.
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The 5th/6th-century Selus Stone in St Just church - a testament to our perennial human tendency to mess things up.
FOREWORD mag has done a v nice review of the US edition of STONE LANDS - v pleased with it, here it is! www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/stone-lands/
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
FOREWORD mag has done a v nice review of the US edition of STONE LANDS - v pleased with it, here it is! www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/stone-lands/
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I enjoyed a visit to the small, but interesting, Norris Museum in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, at the weekend. A few items caught my eye, but particularly this very beautiful and poignant medieval brooch and these fabulous Roman faces 😀
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I enjoyed a visit to the small, but interesting, Norris Museum in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, at the weekend. A few items caught my eye, but particularly this very beautiful and poignant medieval brooch and these fabulous Roman faces 😀
Took delivery of my US author copies today - a surreal and marvellous moment! STONE LANDS is coming out in North America on 2nd December.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Took delivery of my US author copies today - a surreal and marvellous moment! STONE LANDS is coming out in North America on 2nd December.
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Ballowall barrow one wild and windy October evening. No sign of strange lights or partying sprites, but a definite spooky vibe ... #TombTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Ballowall barrow one wild and windy October evening. No sign of strange lights or partying sprites, but a definite spooky vibe ... #TombTuesday
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November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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A gentle reminder that this is one of those generational good books which will still being read in 20 years time.
A very occasional reminder that ‘Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return,’ published by Reaktion Books, is available in paperback through your favorite bookseller.
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
A gentle reminder that this is one of those generational good books which will still being read in 20 years time.
Watch Croft menhir. There are ancient cairns close by and you can see the tower of Ding Dong mine on far horizon. Somewhere down there is Boskednan, the Mên-an-Tol and Mén Scryfa. But where? (Next time I need to bring binoculars.) #StandingStoneSunday
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Watch Croft menhir. There are ancient cairns close by and you can see the tower of Ding Dong mine on far horizon. Somewhere down there is Boskednan, the Mên-an-Tol and Mén Scryfa. But where? (Next time I need to bring binoculars.) #StandingStoneSunday
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This is my painting 'Sun Henges', watercolour and gold ink on recycled cotton rag paper. It is one of several new works inspired by folk art and ancient megaliths that are now available for sale on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#StandingStoneSunday #Art
#StandingStoneSunday #Art
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This is my painting 'Sun Henges', watercolour and gold ink on recycled cotton rag paper. It is one of several new works inspired by folk art and ancient megaliths that are now available for sale on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#StandingStoneSunday #Art
#StandingStoneSunday #Art
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Several war memorials in France use displaced menhirs as a centre piece. This one in Quiberon erected in 1921 used a menhir which originally stood on the Point of Beg er-Lann. #RemembranceSunday #StandingStoneSunday.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Several war memorials in France use displaced menhirs as a centre piece. This one in Quiberon erected in 1921 used a menhir which originally stood on the Point of Beg er-Lann. #RemembranceSunday #StandingStoneSunday.
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A lone standing stone at Milton of Clava - a Bronze Age cemetery close to the more famous Clava Cairns in the Scottish Highlands. The stone may have been part of a larger stone circle. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #ClavaCairns #Archaeology #Prehistory
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
A lone standing stone at Milton of Clava - a Bronze Age cemetery close to the more famous Clava Cairns in the Scottish Highlands. The stone may have been part of a larger stone circle. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #ClavaCairns #Archaeology #Prehistory
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The Cove, garden of The Druid Inn, Stanton Drew, Somerset 08.11.25 #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday #scape #landscapephotography
#photographersofbluesky
#photographersofbluesky
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The Cove, garden of The Druid Inn, Stanton Drew, Somerset 08.11.25 #StandingStoneSunday #Stunday #scape #landscapephotography
#photographersofbluesky
#photographersofbluesky
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It was a delight filming with Derek Brockway & the BBC Cymru/Wales team this summer at the #hillforts of Long Wood, Lampeter, for Children in Need
Looking forward to seeing the show broadcast next week on BBC 1 Wales on 11th Nov at 8pm
@rcahmwales.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Looking forward to seeing the show broadcast next week on BBC 1 Wales on 11th Nov at 8pm
@rcahmwales.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
It was a delight filming with Derek Brockway & the BBC Cymru/Wales team this summer at the #hillforts of Long Wood, Lampeter, for Children in Need
Looking forward to seeing the show broadcast next week on BBC 1 Wales on 11th Nov at 8pm
@rcahmwales.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Looking forward to seeing the show broadcast next week on BBC 1 Wales on 11th Nov at 8pm
@rcahmwales.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The new Ben Edge exhibition at the Fitzrovia Chapel: stunning folkloric art in a spectacular setting!
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The new Ben Edge exhibition at the Fitzrovia Chapel: stunning folkloric art in a spectacular setting!
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It's Bonfire Night here in the UK. G. C. Moore Smith, related a popular Bonfire Night rhyme in Birmingham in 1919.
'Bonfire night!
The moon shines bright.
Forty little angels dressed in white.
Can you eat a biscuit?
Can you smoke a pipe?
Can you go a-courting
At ten o'clock at night?'
'Bonfire night!
The moon shines bright.
Forty little angels dressed in white.
Can you eat a biscuit?
Can you smoke a pipe?
Can you go a-courting
At ten o'clock at night?'
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's Bonfire Night here in the UK. G. C. Moore Smith, related a popular Bonfire Night rhyme in Birmingham in 1919.
'Bonfire night!
The moon shines bright.
Forty little angels dressed in white.
Can you eat a biscuit?
Can you smoke a pipe?
Can you go a-courting
At ten o'clock at night?'
'Bonfire night!
The moon shines bright.
Forty little angels dressed in white.
Can you eat a biscuit?
Can you smoke a pipe?
Can you go a-courting
At ten o'clock at night?'
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Love love love The Old Stones. Hope you don’t mind that ours is scribbled all over, as we tick off sites as we go to them.
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Love love love The Old Stones. Hope you don’t mind that ours is scribbled all over, as we tick off sites as we go to them.
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I write books. They might not be your sort of thing but maybe you know someone who’d like them. They’re about middle-aged people falling in love.
I also work on other people’s books. The one on the right I am particularly proud of.
I post about writing, editing, and rocks, amongst other stuff.
I also work on other people’s books. The one on the right I am particularly proud of.
I post about writing, editing, and rocks, amongst other stuff.
November 14, 2024 at 12:07 PM
I write books. They might not be your sort of thing but maybe you know someone who’d like them. They’re about middle-aged people falling in love.
I also work on other people’s books. The one on the right I am particularly proud of.
I post about writing, editing, and rocks, amongst other stuff.
I also work on other people’s books. The one on the right I am particularly proud of.
I post about writing, editing, and rocks, amongst other stuff.
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At Wayland’s Smithy, July 2023. A haunting and evocative place. #TombTuesday
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
At Wayland’s Smithy, July 2023. A haunting and evocative place. #TombTuesday
The rather ruinous Sperris Quoit in its marvellous moorland setting, with the triangle of Zennor Quoit visible in the distance! #TombTuesday
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The rather ruinous Sperris Quoit in its marvellous moorland setting, with the triangle of Zennor Quoit visible in the distance! #TombTuesday
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Court Tomb Splendour
for #TombTuesday
#photography #neolithic #courttomb #DooeysCairn #NorthernIreland #history #tomb #discoverancienthistory
(Android phone camera)
for #TombTuesday
#photography #neolithic #courttomb #DooeysCairn #NorthernIreland #history #tomb #discoverancienthistory
(Android phone camera)
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Court Tomb Splendour
for #TombTuesday
#photography #neolithic #courttomb #DooeysCairn #NorthernIreland #history #tomb #discoverancienthistory
(Android phone camera)
for #TombTuesday
#photography #neolithic #courttomb #DooeysCairn #NorthernIreland #history #tomb #discoverancienthistory
(Android phone camera)