Events Fiona Robertson writes: To celebrate the publication of the Stone Lands paperback on 4th June, this incredible illustration of Avebury by Philip Harris Illustration is up for grabs - it will be A3 size and signed too! Also tour dates including Dartmoor this weekend and an exclusive competition for German readers on our page.

EventsIn this issue: John Aubrey at 400, the Neolithic temples of Mnajdra, Malta, possible connections between stone circles in Northern Ireland and Cumbria, a reinterpretation of the Aubrey Holes and Station Stone rectangle at Stonehenge. Also folklore about the Devil throwing stones and the mystery of Merlin’s Cleuch in the Scottish Borders, a walk along the historic Via Francigena pilgrimage route, and the strange story of Rochdale’s Baum Rabbit, plus archaeology and folklore news, book reviews and more.

Events Stone Lands by our friend Fiona Robertson is up for Current Archaeology Book of the Year (Congratulations!) - you might like to vote for it here. Also an evening with Fiona and the very nice geologist and author Anjana Khatwa ( book details, video ) in Bridport on the 27th Feb. Fiona was executive Editor on The Old Stones and our book wouldn't have happened without her drive, knowledge and enthusiasm. Fiona has come up with something extraordinary again here.

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In this issue: Blind John Brown, a forgotten Victorian geomancer, Polissoir – a phenomenological report from Dorset’s Valley of the Stones, Fairport Convention and liminal topographies of the Winchester Downs, New Troy and the Sandridge Geoglyph, the Bleasdale–Round Loaf alignment in Lancashire and lots more...
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Events In this issue:

• Frank Edmund Earp 1951–2025: Bob Trubshaw honours a leading light of earth mysteries in Nottinghamshire
• Some old stones of Portugal’s Land’s End: Ulrich Magin goes hunting for some elusive European megaliths
• The NE interview: Lally MacBeth , the author of the new book The Lost Folk
• Reflections in stone: Amy Tryphena encounters Cornwall’s smallest stone circle
• The wolf that wasn’t: Rosemary Pardoe questions a strange feature in a Suffolk church
• Getting it down on tape: John Billingsley gets entangled with hedge tape theory
• Synergies of Powys in Gwynedd : Rob Stepney went on a publishing quest, and the omens were on his side
• Hiding in plain sight: N and S letter reversals: Greg Huber begins a two-part study of some intriguing symbols
• Mind the gap: NE’s editor reflects on a famous tree

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Roman, Greek and Classical Rob Ixer writes: If ever there was a book for Megalithic Portal readers this is it and at an unbelievably low price. This is a landscape book with full colour, full page, carefully selected photographs, most of northern Britannia, very northern Brittania. Some are stunning, the majority are excellent, but there are one or two where Roman influence is difficult to see. Some, the untouched landscapes at Yardhope Burn and Harrows Scar especially even exude a spiritual aura.
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EventsIn this issue:

• Folk beliefs on luck: Alison Skinner conducted a small survey about folk beliefs relating to luck
• A visit to Columcille: Josh Maybrook encounters some modern megaliths inspired by Iona
• The Angles, the Saxons and the Britons: To understand what happened in post-Roman Britain, says Richard Stead, follow the farmers – and the clues hidden in language
• Where did the dance begin? Prompted by a previous article about triskeles and other symbols, Alan Nowell writes
• The mysteries of Dunmail Raise: Graham Dugdale investigates the allure of Lakeland’s busiest highway

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Mysteries Newly scanned by ourselves for your reading pleasure. In this Issue:

• Rodney Castleden - Restoring Stonehenge
• George Children and George Nash - Climatic Triggers Within the Historical Record
• Allen Hunt - Millennium Mania
• Victor Reijs - Maes Howe's Megalithic Month Alignment
• Cornelius J. Holtorf - Christian Landscapes of Pagan Monuments
• H. S. Chapman - 'Arrow Stones' and Related Phenomena: North Wales Examples of Prehistoric Art
• David Kaiser - Stonehenge American Style
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Mysteries Newly scanned by ourselves for your reading pleasure. In this Issue:
• Jeremy Harte - Folk Memory
• Rodney Castleden - Stretching Credibility: A Perspective on the Long Man of Wilmington
• Alastair McBeath - Comet Myths Ancient & Modern
• David S. Whitley - Shamanism, Rock Art and Landscape Symbolism in Native California
• Frank Olding - Fairy Lore in 18th~century Monmouthshire
• E. C. (Ed) Krupp - Celestial Analogy and Cyclical Renewal
• Dylan Bickerstaffe - The Longest Screamin History
• Phil Quinn - An Unnatural History of the Bristol Region
• George Nash - Walking With Landscape Syntax and Narrative

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Events In this issue: • Mike Haigh’s Archaeology Review:
• A significant and unusual ritual landscape in Ireland and the curious history of Crowland
• The Alt-Antiquarian: Farings and Findings - More on the symbiosis between the map and the
dérive, chance and invention
• Porthole Stones in Britain: Dr Karen Pierce discusses further UK examples of this megalithic typology
• Shadows and Stones: Olwyn Pritchard on how she stumbled upon an important inter-relationship between ancient megaliths
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EventsIn this issue: • An experimental Neolithic Henge: 15 years on - John Hill looks back on the techniques and building of Liverpool’s Nesshenge
• The Alt-Antiquarian: A drift in time and space - Finding psychogeography alongside the magic in Alan Garner’s writing underlines their close association
• Luddenden, King Lud & the Luddites: Wandering in inner space - In a Pennine backwater, an armless motif seems to be on the loose, as Andrea Capstick finds
• All Things Considered: Reviews - N Yorkshire lore, Glasgow earth mysteries, Norse magic and some popular misapprehensions • Walking the umbilicus back to source - Routeways, according to Bob Trubshaw, are much more than utilitarian material phenomena, as mindful travellers past and present know
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Resources In 2021 Peter Harris and Thomas Gough published a book: A New Dimension to Ancient Measures based on theirs and the late Norman Stockdate's hypothesis that a unit of length, the Harris and Stockdale Megalithic Foot, (HSMF), of 1.1785 feet was known and used in prehistoric Britain. You can read a further summary of the book on our page here. Ancient metrology is a controversial subject but not unheard of in modern archaeology.  However in February 2023 Liz Henty published a book review in the Journal of Skyscape Archaeology rubbishing their work.
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MysteriesNewly scanned by ourselves for your reading pleasure. In this issue:
• Cavaliers and Phantoms - Jeremy Harte
• The Emotion Death and Mortality During Early Prehistory - George Children and George Nash
• The Magical World of Doctor Dee - Allen Hunt
• The Archaeology of Early Man - Hllary Schrafft
• A Toast to the Recently Departed Fairy Faith in the Bristol Region - Phil Quinn
• On Logan Dene Neodewearde (Langdean Bottom possible stone circle) - Neil Mortimer
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Mysteries Newly scanned by ourselves for your reading pleasure. In this issue:
• Babyface Cave: A Personal History - Paul Newman
• At The Centre of the Neolithic World - George Nash
• The Currency of the Past - David Silver
• The Devil's Eye - Phil Quinn
• The Chosen Ones - Jo-Anne Wilder
• When is a Rock Not Just a Rock? - Brian Hoggard
• The Real Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies - Dylan Bickerstaffe
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Resources Newly scanned by ourselves for your reading pleasure. In this issue:
• Dowsing Gogmagog - W A Clark
• Bathampton Down, Somerset: A Reassessment of a Neglected Megalithic Landscape - Phil Quinn
• Ley Lines: Dead and Buried = A Reappraisal of the Straght Line Enigma
• Excavation of the Facade Area of La Hougue Bie - George Nash
• Time Slip at Versailles - Allen Hunt
• Death and Immortality - Neandethal Burial and the Symbolism of a cult - George Nash & George Children
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