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scrufftyguy.bsky.social
Stoney Littleton Long Barrow, near Wellow, Somerset on Sunday. Neolithic chambered tomb with superb ammonite fossil at the entranceway (see pic 2). 👏 #TombTuesday #Somerset #StoneyLittleton #Fossil #Ammonite @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @sanhs.org
September 29, 2026 at 5:26 PM
johnnorthwrites.bsky.social
One star, the moon, the broad back of the fells seen between the arms of an oak tree growing in the hole of a drystone wall I wonder if your grandfather made and the way a bat appears as if to point out something there along the line of Scots pines that run like arteries all these things in my blood
September 27, 2026 at 10:51 PM
tuatha.ie
Just spent the last few days on the beautiful island of Inishturk off the coast of Mayo.

It's a truly stunning place, and I can't wait to go through all the photos properly.

It's the kind of place that gets under your skin, so I'm already planning another trip!

#WildAtlanticWay #ireland
A view across the coast of Inishturk towards the pier, the rugged rocky landscape is dotted with white cottages A ram with curling horns in front of a drystone wall at the base of a steep hillside on Inishturk The rugged coast of the island with the Atlantic churning white at the base of the cliffs
September 27, 2026 at 8:11 PM
allantadams.bsky.social
That should have read shieling...
The change meant studying a hedge. Other studies included a sheep & interpreting the archaeological record a bit.

#drawing
Pencil study of a man 'laying a hedge'. He is wearing a wide flat cap and has tied twine around his trousers. He is training the branches of the hedge to form a barrier to animals such as sheep. A study of a Swaledale sheep with other sheep sheltering behind a high drystone wall. A field barn and distant hills can be seen in the background. Pencil and watercolour notes on archaeological record plan and a fragment of stone footings.
September 27, 2026 at 3:34 PM
allantadams.bsky.social
There was a brief section on drystone wall development and different types of stiles in the walls.

#Pen #drawing #illustration #ArtShare
Double page spread explaining the difference in stone walls of different periods. Four diagrams of stiles in Westmorland drystone walls. Stone wall with a squeeze stile next to a single piece of stone with gate hinges.
September 27, 2026 at 1:43 PM
tuatha.ie
The tall stone cross of Skellig Michael.

It is decorated with a double-lined Latin cross, carved into a weathered stone that had been roughly hewn into a cross shape.

This 2.4m high cross stands on a leacht, a drystone altar, giving it an even more imposing aspect in the small monastery.

#Ireland
A roughly shaped stone cross on a drystone altar, or leacht, in the monastery of Skellig Michael
September 26, 2026 at 7:10 PM
casemateipm.bsky.social
Read "Drystone", a story about the weight of the past, resilience and the hard work of living on your own terms.

💻️: https://tinyurl.com/39tfcp29

#drystone #womenshistorymonth #womenshistorybooks
September 25, 2026 at 10:17 PM
fhithich.uk
Westerdale, and an unsolved crime

This is the dale where a Marsh Harrier was shot last month. Heather in the foreground, drystone walls, scattered farms, cloud resting on the tops. Nothing in the view gives the game away, which is rather the trouble. It is yet another sad reminder of the illegal…
Westerdale, and an unsolved crime
This is the dale where a Marsh Harrier was shot last month. Heather in the foreground, drystone walls, scattered farms, cloud resting on the tops. Nothing in the view gives the game away, which is rather the trouble. It is yet another sad reminder of the illegal persecution that still shadows Britain's uplands. What happened On 28 August 2026 a juvenile Marsh Harrier was found in the Westerdale area, unable to fly.
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September 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
mikaelfer.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
Yesterday we had really nice sunshine in co. #kerry
Visited Staigue fort, which is one of #ireland 's finest examples of drystone walls (6m tall).
Staigue fort
September 24, 2026 at 2:09 PM
antiquity.ac.uk
NEW The city of Zadar, Croatia has been occupied for c.3000 years, but underwent rapid expansion in the 20th century. Uncovering the historic green spaces hidden under and within the urban sprawl sheds light on the city's millennia of 'green heritage'.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
City on the coast. One one side of a road, many homogenous buildings with white walls and red roofs cluster together. On the other side, a green field with the remains of drystone walls sits unkempt and overgrown.
September 24, 2026 at 9:45 AM
blackdogbirder.bsky.social
Rain stopped right on cue for the annual rake up of cut vegetation on the Red Moss of Netherley path. After 10+ years of management, the Yellow-rattle is becoming increasingly dominant and @scotwildlife.bsky.social ranger, Lewis, had made short work of it with the brushcutter.

#habitatmanagement
Looking along a grassy path with vegetation just cut and raked. There's wire fencing with wooden fence posts along both sides. A person walking away along a grassy path, heading towards woodland, carrying a forkfull of grass cuttings over their shoulder. A person with wooden rake, raking up grass cuttings. Photo is positioned looking along grassy path with wire fence and wood posts on right a broken down drystone wall on left. An outstretched hand holding some dried brown Yellow Rattle seed pods over a clear plastic bag.
September 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM
maybelmamazed.bsky.social
This double bank of drystone walling contains Sedber Lane
(a former packhorse way) which leads down from Grassington to Linton Falls on the River Wharfe
in the #YorkshireDales
#WallsOnWednesday
A stone-walled path leads through fields towards Linton Falls, with rolling hills and dramatic clouds in the distance.
September 23, 2026 at 1:39 PM
michael-1975.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Terug waar die thuis hoort!
#regel14 #biketooter #dawesgalaxy
De DawesGalaxy a.k.a de blubberbukfiets terug in z'n natuurlijke habitat. Een Blubberig pad vol rotsen en kiezels tussen de groene Engelse velden en drystone walls.
September 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM
towns.satyrs.eu
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿️ Corston, Orkney 🗿

📌️ 59° 3′ 17″ N, 3° 11′ 32″ W
A high-angle satellite view of Corston, Orkney, showing a patchwork of green and tan agricultural fields divided by narrow roads. Small clusters of farm buildings are scattered throughout the rural landscape, with a small dark lake visible in the lower left. A woman stands on a stone path beside a traditional drystone building with a grass-covered roof in Corston, Orkney. Rusty metal farm tools are displayed along a low stone wall in the foreground near the path. (Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corrigall_Farm_Museum_-_Western_range_of_farm_buildings_-_geograph.org.uk_-_8182444.jpg) A dark metal, shield-shaped plaque is mounted on a large, weathered stone in front of a stone building. The plaque features embossed text that reads: 1A9 8P1 AD R S. (Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Award_at_entrance_to_Corrigal_Farm_Museum_-_geograph.org.uk_-_73117.jpg) A large, conical pile of golden straw or grain sits on a raised metal platform in a grassy farmyard. A brown rooster stands in the foreground, and a white hen rests in the shade beneath the straw overhang. (Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Straw_thatched_hen_house,_Corrigall_Farm_Museum_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3773797.jpg)
September 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM
yorkshiredales.org.uk
The limestone beneath Winskill Meadows has helped shape everything you can see in this view, from the rich flower-filled grasslands to the drystone walls built from locally quarried rock.

#YorkshireDales #TuesdayThoughts
September 22, 2026 at 4:00 AM
earbyfae.bsky.social
Lovely sunrises walk with the dog up to Earby waterfalls. Completely alone and peaceful! #Lastdaysofsummer
Sunrise over field and drystone wall Earby waterfall Shady path Sunrise over another green field
September 21, 2026 at 9:43 AM
ramblingastronomer.bsky.social
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September 21, 2026 at 8:49 AM
enricharch.bsky.social
Had a lovely day with @soclandstudies.bsky.social and @tudorfarming.bsky.social walking part of the Dove Valley.
Black and white image of a group of people outside listening to someone talking. Black and white image of a wheelbarrow on top of wooden pallets. Black and white image of a gateway in a drystone wall. Black and white image of people walking in the countryside
September 20, 2026 at 6:05 PM
allantadams.bsky.social
Though even meetings were good for one thing: sketching. Our meeting was at the Bear of Rodborough Hotel, not far from Woodchester. A few months later I was offered redundancy/early retirement.

#drawing #MeetingsAreNotMyThing
#ArtShare
A sketch of a meeting room on notepaper supplied by the venue of the meeting. The bottles were for still and sparkling mineral water. A sketch of a meeting room on notepaper supplied by the venue of the meeting. The bottles were for still and sparkling mineral water. In the background is a large flipchart. Drawing of a large bed in a hotel room with a window to the right looking out onto a drystone wall. A pen sketch of a drystone wall.
September 20, 2026 at 11:39 AM
philstrachan.bsky.social
Buckled

(More thoughts in the alt text)

Camera: MPP Microcord
Film: Ilford FP4+

#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
Black and white photo of part of a metal gate into a field. The tube along the top of the gate is buckled. There is a drystone dyke at the left side and hills and trees in the background. Could have done with lifting the camera a little higher to separate the top of the gate post from the line at the end of the field. It looked ok through the viewfinder. I should know this stuff by now, ah well, live and learn haha.
September 19, 2026 at 5:17 PM
hannahpinkham.bsky.social
Childhood, but make it #Yorkshire
3 children standing at a drystone wall with a field of cows peering at them.
September 19, 2026 at 3:20 PM
davidallanphoto.bsky.social
Drystone walls and a barn in Baldersdale, Co Durham.
The prominent hill in the distance is 'Goldsborough Rigg' and is crossed by a path, called the 'Bowes Loop', a section of the Pennine Way log distance footpath.
#england #northpennines #durham #countryside #drystonewalling #landscape #photography
Drystone walls and barns are an integral part of England's North Pennine landscape, as captured here in Baldersdale, Co Durham.
September 18, 2026 at 5:38 PM
fictivedream.bsky.social
"He stood there, hands resting on the rough cool of the drystone wall, the bulk of the electricity pylons and the glistening hum of their looping wires above." Wildfire by Neil Campbell. Please follow the link below and enjoy #flashfiction #readingcommunity fictivedream.com/2026/09/18/w...
https://fictivedream.com/2026/09/18/wildfire/
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September 18, 2026 at 10:07 AM
analoguelass.bsky.social
The magical energy of old country lanes lies in their ability to act as living, breathing thresholds between the modern world and the ancient past - half frame photograph printed onto mulberry paper. The photograph was made using my Pentax 17 and Ilford FP4 developed with DD-X. #believeinfilm
A black and white 6x4 half frame photograph of an old country lane bordered by centuries-old hedgerows, drystone walls, and ancient overhanging trees. It is printed onto delicate mulberry paper.
September 17, 2026 at 1:07 PM
tuatha.ie
It's #LoveDonegal day today, and what an easy county to love!

Here are just a few of my favourite spots in this stunningly beautiful county. What are your favourites?

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #DiscoverIreland #Travel
An aerial view of a circular drystone fort on the summit of a hill in County Donegal A stone cross pillar on the Turas Glencolmcille An aerial view of Beltany Stone Circle, with the distant hills lightly draped in mist. Doe Castle surrounded by the muddy Sheephaven bay
September 17, 2026 at 12:39 PM