Laurence Mitchell
@eastofelveden
Writer. Doom stroller. Travel and landscape, also archaeology and wildlife. Author of various Bradt and Cicerone guides, also Westering (Saraband). . Latest book: Flint Country
Today is publication day in UK - the new (5th) edition of my Kyrgyzstan guide for Bradt. Snap one up and you'll still have time for a quick jaunt to the jailoos this summer.
Stoney Middleton long barrow, Somerset. Neolithic. With an ammonite traced in one of the entrance stones, time is deeply layered here #TombTuesday
Stanton Drew stone circle, Somerset #StandingStoneSunday (although some are lying down)
The polissoir ('Polisher') stone, Fyfield Down, Wiltshire. Consider the many ancient fingers that have traced these same voluptuous grooves #stone #sarsen #Neolithic #Wiltshire #archaeology #megaliths
A welcome return visit yesterday to West Kennet long barrow. One of the many archaeological treasures of this corner of Wiltshire #archaeology #Neolithic #megaliths #sarsens #Wiltshire
Canal signpost, below Gravelly Hill Interchange ('Spaghetti Junction'), Birmingham #FingerpostFriday
Stone and lichen guardians of Machrie Moor, Arran, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday
A slow torrent of lichen, Machrie Moor, Arran, Scotland ##StandingStoneSunday
The last walk of 2025. West Runton to Cromer, Norfolk. Wishing you all the very best for 2026.
Long Meg (without Her Daughters), near Penrith, Cumbria. Part of the third widest Neolithic stone circle in England. Cup and ring marks and a spiral (similar to those at Newgrange and Knowth, Ireland) can be clearly seen on surface. #StandingStoneSunday
Christmas turnaround #Norwich #StPeterMancroft #church #Christmas #carousel
Today is the day the rising sun shines through the roof chamber at #Newgrange in Ireland. It marks the turning of the year and the return of light on the shortest day. Happy solstice #winter #solstice
Worried-looking dragon. 15th century bench end. St Mary's #church, North Elmham #Norfolk #woodensday
Wherryman's Way, River Chet, Chedgrave, Norfolk #FingerPostFriday
Nine Ladies (actually ten) stone circle, Stanton Moor, Derbyshire. Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age. In a clearing of birch trees, these stones of millstone grit were once believed to be women who had been turned to stone as punishment for dancing on the sabbath #StandingStoneSunday
A glorious range of colour variation in these roughly knapped flints in the wall of Holy Trinity Church, Loddon #Norfolk #FlintFriday
Ty-Newydd #Neolithic burial chamber #Anglesey #Wales ##TombTuesday
Gorleston was Gorleston ere Yarmouth Begun, Raveningham Sculpture Trail, Norfolk #fingerpostfriday
Not so much for the dead as of the dead. Capela dos Ossos (Bone Chapel), part of the 18th century Carmelite church, Nossa Senhora do Carmo in Faro, Portugal, which contains the bones of over 1000 Carmelite friars #TombTuesday
Two of the taller megaliths of Pobull Fhinn stone circle on slope of Ben Langlass, Isle of North Uist. Probably 2nd millennium BCE. The circle is actually an oval c 27 x 38 metres. About two dozen stones remain in total. #StandingStoneSunday #Scotland