Celebrated the Solstice yesterday by raising a new menhir. It's not very big but the locals seem to like it. Does this count as #urbanprehistory @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social ? 😁
December 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Celebrated the Solstice yesterday by raising a new menhir. It's not very big but the locals seem to like it. Does this count as #urbanprehistory @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social ? 😁
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Celebrated the Solstice yesterday by raising a new menhir. It's not very big but the locals seem to like it. Does this count as #urbanprehistory @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social ? 😁
First new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for a while. Here, I reflect on two fake 'megaliths' I recently saw at a prog thrash metal gig in Glasgow, Blood Incantation.
'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere'
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'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere'
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Blood incantation
The most (in)famous example of heavy metal and prehistory harmonising is surely the undersized Stone’enge that is slowly lowered into the midst of guitars and spandex in the 1984 mock-rock-do…
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December 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
First new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for a while. Here, I reflect on two fake 'megaliths' I recently saw at a prog thrash metal gig in Glasgow, Blood Incantation.
'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere'
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'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere'
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For many years I’ve walked past Edinburgh’s Festival Square jokingly wondering why there are several oversized #Neolithic carved stone balls… Only to discover today thanks to @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social that they are indeed modelled on them theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/p...
December 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A brief visit to the Caiy Stane in South Edinburgh today.I left the back of a van in the photo for scale.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Curiously Civilized, Old Rock Creations, Childproof, Easter Island, Stonehenge by Agathe Snow https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/28556
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Festival of Lights at Longleat. One for @clonehenge.bsky.social to enjoy.
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Fantastic to see the first edition of the @stoneclub.bsky.social zine Ancient Times leading with some Cornwall #UrbanPrehistory! More of this kind of thing please.
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Fantastic to see the first edition of the @stoneclub.bsky.social zine Ancient Times leading with some Cornwall #UrbanPrehistory! More of this kind of thing please.
November #Museum30 theme 6 is #clay. Dunblane Museum has 4000-year-old pottery food vessel, discovered in 1999 during excavations for housing development in Dunblane’s Barbush. This was in child’s burial cist, part of evidence of early Bronze Age settlement youtu.be/mGl6VlJg5Qk
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November 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Some #urbanprehistory for #standingstonesunday today. Pronssikautinen hauta Bronze Age cairn, right next to the hospital in Helsinki near the shore. A miracle anything has survived
September 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Some #urbanprehistory for #standingstonesunday today. Pronssikautinen hauta Bronze Age cairn, right next to the hospital in Helsinki near the shore. A miracle anything has survived
Always good to see an #UrbanPrehistory theme pub! 😉
September 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Always good to see an #UrbanPrehistory theme pub! 😉
My latest #urbanprehistory blog post (no. 182!) concerns a mysterious tiled mural of passage grave art to be found in #Belfast city centre. If anyone has any more information about the tiles, or the motifs depicted, I would love to hear from you.
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Passage grave art … in a passage
Urban prehistory can still surprise me. On a recent trip to Belfast, I hoped that I might stumble upon something that would be blog post worthy, and I thought I had hit urban prehistory gold when I…
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September 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My latest #urbanprehistory blog post (no. 182!) concerns a mysterious tiled mural of passage grave art to be found in #Belfast city centre. If anyone has any more information about the tiles, or the motifs depicted, I would love to hear from you.
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And mair #urbanprehistory @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social at other stations 😊
September 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
And mair #urbanprehistory @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social at other stations 😊
#UrbanPrehistory @ Stockholm’s Tunnelbana stations @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#UrbanPrehistory @ Stockholm’s Tunnelbana stations @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
Bucranium on the former Gallowgate Branch of the National Commercial Bank of Scotland in Glasgow. The Bucranium is a very ancient symbol depicting the decorated skull of an ox which can be traced back as far as the Neolothic period.
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#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography
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#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography
September 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
September 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Have you seen this @kathrynmorrison.bsky.social ?
Some #UrbanPrehistory for chain stores - The Lost Stones of ASDA…
Some #UrbanPrehistory for chain stores - The Lost Stones of ASDA…
One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s
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Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
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Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
![A stone that looks like a prehistoric standing stone but inscribed with "Asda Price Promise Permanently [text obscured] prices [text obscured].
The stone is by a Drystone wall and vegetation grows around it](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7mzhk55756kcluyutorbqyex/bafkreicxukeks37aqp6tgtzj2hlbvjgtxc5syw4ptr6nnojxhazlrfwflq@jpeg)
August 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Have you seen this @kathrynmorrison.bsky.social ?
Some #UrbanPrehistory for chain stores - The Lost Stones of ASDA…
Some #UrbanPrehistory for chain stores - The Lost Stones of ASDA…
One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
August 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
At the end (or beginning) of Erdeven’s wonderful megalithic walking trail, amongst some much more well known sites is the Dolmen de Botlann, nestled in a small housing estate. #TombTuesday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh #UrbanPrehistory
August 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
At the end (or beginning) of Erdeven’s wonderful megalithic walking trail, amongst some much more well known sites is the Dolmen de Botlann, nestled in a small housing estate. #TombTuesday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh #UrbanPrehistory
Finally made it to Balfarg Henge last month. It was worth the wait. Scotland does seem to "do" archaeology well, doesn't it? #urbanprehistory
August 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Finally made it to Balfarg Henge last month. It was worth the wait. Scotland does seem to "do" archaeology well, doesn't it? #urbanprehistory
Your one-stop Neolithic feast? #UrbanPrehistory #StandingStoneSunday
August 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Your one-stop Neolithic feast? #UrbanPrehistory #StandingStoneSunday
Heavens above it's #StandingStoneSunday 😮🥳
The war memorial in Penrhyncoch nr Aberystwyth is actually a tall quartz monolith
It once stood on the top road to Bontgoch, close to barrows on Banc Troedrhiwseiri - very likely a Bronze Age standing stone
📷 My own, yesterday
#UrbanPrehistory
The war memorial in Penrhyncoch nr Aberystwyth is actually a tall quartz monolith
It once stood on the top road to Bontgoch, close to barrows on Banc Troedrhiwseiri - very likely a Bronze Age standing stone
📷 My own, yesterday
#UrbanPrehistory
August 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Heavens above it's #StandingStoneSunday 😮🥳
The war memorial in Penrhyncoch nr Aberystwyth is actually a tall quartz monolith
It once stood on the top road to Bontgoch, close to barrows on Banc Troedrhiwseiri - very likely a Bronze Age standing stone
📷 My own, yesterday
#UrbanPrehistory
The war memorial in Penrhyncoch nr Aberystwyth is actually a tall quartz monolith
It once stood on the top road to Bontgoch, close to barrows on Banc Troedrhiwseiri - very likely a Bronze Age standing stone
📷 My own, yesterday
#UrbanPrehistory
Kindstein: Like many standing stones, this one is thought of as a fertility symbol according to local legend. #StandingStoneSunday #UrbanPrehistory It's on Zum Kindstein Street in a recent housing development south-west of the village of Unter-Widdersheimin near Frankfurt. 📷 Janek More:
July 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Kindstein: Like many standing stones, this one is thought of as a fertility symbol according to local legend. #StandingStoneSunday #UrbanPrehistory It's on Zum Kindstein Street in a recent housing development south-west of the village of Unter-Widdersheimin near Frankfurt. 📷 Janek More:
Shopping street concrete cup & ring marks. Sort of. Inverted. Perhaps. Reminiscent.
#UrbanPrehistory
#Aarhus
#UrbanPrehistory
#Aarhus
July 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Shopping street concrete cup & ring marks. Sort of. Inverted. Perhaps. Reminiscent.
#UrbanPrehistory
#Aarhus
#UrbanPrehistory
#Aarhus
Not exactly #urbanprehistory - maybe we need to make space for an #industrialagriculturalprehistory hashtag?
Stone of Morphie 📸 July 2025.
Stone of Morphie 📸 July 2025.
July 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Not exactly #urbanprehistory - maybe we need to make space for an #industrialagriculturalprehistory hashtag?
Stone of Morphie 📸 July 2025.
Stone of Morphie 📸 July 2025.