#HengeWednesday & its Arbor Low - the Derbyshire henge with a recumbent stone circle in the centre

See more of the peak district in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ta4...

Always love a #HengeWednesday & its Mayburgh Henge,
thankfully the builders of the M6 didn't opt to flatten it so it survives along with its singular standing stone

see more in our episode on visiting the lake district in January >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R_4...

#HengeWednesday & when i realised i was passing by i thought i should drop back by Castilly Henge this weekend, i'd heard about some work happening soon but didn't realise the archaeology was still ongoing,
nice to see the excavations

The grass covered earthworks comprising a Roman amphitheatre with flat central, circular space surrounded by a bank and trees, blue sky above and steps in foreground

At the southern edge of Dorchester (DVRNOVARIA) in #Dorset lies Maumbury Rings, a #Roman amphitheatre, constructed from the remains of a late #Neolithic henge

Built around 2400 BC, the henge was older to the Romans than the Romans are to us 🤯

📷 Sept 2025

#RomanSiteSaturday (also #HengeWednesday)

Following on from yesterday, it is only right that today’s #HengeWednesday is Giant’s Ring henge itself. Situated in Ballynahatty, Northern Ireland, this well preserved henge is 180m in diameter, enclosing an area of 6.9 acres. At least 3 of the current 5 entrances are thought to be original. 🏺

One that you wouldn't think of for #HengeWednesday
The henge at Stenness is somewhat slight nowadays, but still visible

see more of Orkney in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8FD...

Always good to celebrate #HengeWednesday and while we love Orkney's standing stones, you also have to admire the beautiful Henge enclosure(s) that surround them
this, of course is Brodgar

See more of Brodgar in the new Orkney episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8FD...

#HengeWednesday remains the most underated tag - and i often have nothing new for it, but a revisit of the Priddy Circles on a beautiful morning, gotta be done
not necessarily the easiest to parse - all three are in frame looking north in pics 1 & 4

It's #HillfortsWednesday (we often forget the extra 's') although this site is more #HengeWednesday (though not sure that hashtag exists - perhaps it should 🤣)

The much under-appreciated sister tag to #Hillfortswednesday >>> #HengeWednesday always made me so happy, hoping to get that going over here 😊

Here's the absurdly vast Giants Ring, just outside Belfast - 180 metres in diametre & for scale you can just make out the dolmen in the middle

Woodhenge was discovered by aerial photography in 1925 as a crop mark in a field of wheat. It was built c. 2500 BC & was formed of 6 concentric ovals of standing posts, surrounded by a bank & ditch. Today concrete markers show the positions of the timber posts #HengeWednesday
AncientBlueSky 🏺

Built roughly between 2850 & 2200 BC, the Neolithic henge at Avebury survives as a huge circular bank & ditch.
Excavations have revealed that, due to erosion & silting, the ditch today is only 1/3 of its original depth & the bank substantially reduced in height.
#HengeWednesday
AncientBlueSky 🏺

Following on from my previous post. Here is a panorama of Mayburgh, showing the sheer size of the henge. The central stone is clearly visible in the middle #HengeWednesday AncientBlueSky 🏺

Mayburgh Henge, Cumbria.
A large & impressive Neolithic henge with a single standing stone in the centre. Its banks stand up to 3m high, constructed of pebbles collected from the nearby river. Old drawings suggest there may once have been more stones, since removed #HengeWednesday AncientBlueSky 🏺

Maumbury Rings raking almost done #Hengewednesday

Burnet Saxifrage and Agrimony are two species slowly spreading across Maumbury Rings. #HengeWednesday

Marbled White, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, lots of grasshoppers and Bush Crickets at Maumbury Rings today. Greater Knapweed almost all in flower now. #hengewednesday

Maumbury Rings gets a midsummer trim #Solstice2023 #hengewednesday

Right. Over to Maumbury Rings for some Midsummer Mowing. #Hengewednesday