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Megalithomania Glastonbury & Online 9/10th May 20th Anniversary inc Andy B speaking

Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 10 April 2026  Page Views: 1470

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Andy B at Megalithomania 2006
Andy B at Megalithomania 2006 submitted by TimPrevett : Andy Burnham in full flow at Megalithomania, talking about this website! (Vote or comment on this photo)
Lots of other speakers including Fabio Silva, Steve Marshall, Robin Heath, Jim Vieira, JJ Ainsworth & Hugh Newman. Sat/Sun 9th/10th May and tours on the Friday, Monday and Tuesday - Monday 11th is Stones of Oxfordshire tour with Andy B and Hugh Newman

Megalithomania Glastonbury

Sat/Sun 9th/10th May and tour Monday 11th

Andy will be at Megalithomania on the Sunday, his talk is at 12:30pm. The whole thing is being live-streamed if you can't make it to Glastonbury.

Andy's talk is Celebrating 30 years of Ancient sites online, including 25 years of the Megalithic Portal
Andy Burnham is founder of the huge Megalithic Portal ancient sites web resource and Editor of the community's award-winning book The Old Stones. Andy will be looking back over 30 years of stone hunting, 25 running the Megalithic Portal. Expect a whistlestop tour of sites and stories from the book, theories, discoveries and early web geekery. Andy asks, 'Was it all worth it* – and what's next?'
• spoiler: yes

Also on the Sunday: JJ Ainsworth & Hugh Newman, Steve Marshall and Jim Vieira, the John Michell Memorial Lecture hosted by Christine Rhone and the Speakers Forum.

Tickets here megalithomania.co.uk/booking.html




Megalithomania Tour to Megalithic Sites - Monday 11th May

Uley Long Barrow and Oxfordshire Megaliths: Hetty Peglar's Tump Long Barrow, The Rollright Stones, The Hawk Stone and the Hoar Stone.
Hosted by Andy Burnham and Hugh Newman.
10.30am- 6.30pm. Meet at Town Hall Car Park.

Megalithomania are also running a tour around Glastonbury on the Friday and South Wales (Tinkinswood Burial Chamber, Ponty Pridd Rocking Stone and The Harold Stones) on Tuesday 12th May

Tickets here megalithomania.co.uk/booking.html

Note: This was our Founder and Editor Andy B speaking at Megalithomania in 2006, this year he's back to help celebrate their 20th anniversary
Contributor Bio for Andy B: Megalithic Portal Founding Editor.

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Re: Megalithomania Glastonbury & Online 9/10th May 20th Anniversary inc Andy B speaki by Andy B on Wednesday, 03 June 2026
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A very nice review of my talk by Alex Peach ‘Stone Temple Gardening’: Andy Burnham’s Megalithomania 2026 talk celebrated 30 years of The Megalithic Portal and ancient sites online.

My head was still whirling with Nicholas Cope’s ideas as we broke for coffee, and the conversation carried on among the delegates. That is one of the pleasures of Megalithomania. The lectures do not really stop when the speaker leaves the stage. They spill out into the foyer, the market, the coffee queue and the pavement outside.

After the metaphysical weight of centre and circumference, Andy Burnham provided a welcome change of tone. Andy is the founder of The Megalithic Portal, one of the key online resources for anyone interested in ancient sites, and editor of the community’s award-winning book The Old Stones. He had spoken at the first Megalithomania in 2006, so his return for the 20th anniversary gave the talk a pleasing circularity.

His presentation looked back over thirty years of stone hunting, and twenty-five years of running The Megalithic Portal. It was a lively mixture of archive photographs, early internet history, site visits, discoveries, theories, cartoons, jokes and affectionate self-mockery. My notes simply say: lovely light relief. That sounds casual, but it should not understate the importance of what he has built.

The Megalithic Portal is one of those resources many of us now take for granted. It gathers sites, photographs, maps, records, comments and community knowledge in a way that has helped countless people find, visit and think about ancient places. For independent researchers, walkers, photographers, writers and stone obsessives, it has become part of the working infrastructure of the field.

Andy’s talk was funny, knowledgeable and generous, but beneath the humour was a serious achievement. Building and maintaining a community resource over decades is no small thing. It requires persistence, technical work, editorial judgement, enthusiasm and an enormous amount of unpaid or underpaid care. Hats off to him.

I was able to speak to Andy later during the Cotswolds trip, which made this lecture feel even more useful in hindsight. For Stone Temple Gardening, The Megalithic Portal matters not only as a database of sites, but as an example of how independent research communities can gather, organise and share knowledge outside traditional academic structures. In its own way, that too is part of the Megalithomania story: people drawn to stones, building networks around them, and keeping the old places visible.

More write ups of the day here:
http://www.stonetemplegardening.com/post/megalithomania-2026-sunday-talks-speakers-forum
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    Re: Megalithomania Glastonbury & Online 9/10th May 20th Anniversary inc Andy B speaki by Anne T on Thursday, 04 June 2026
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    Really nice review, Andy - you must be very pleased indeed. Sounds like a really interesting talk, and if you are going to repeat it, or post a video on-line, I'll be one of the first to watch. Well done!
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      Re: Megalithomania Glastonbury & Online 9/10th May 20th Anniversary inc Andy B speaki by Andy B on Thursday, 04 June 2026
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      Yes definitely, I will do an online 'Zoom' version around Christmas time I think for everyone who can't get to a live one. I would love to take it 'North' to near you sometime in person but not really possible at present.
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