ReviewsTerence Meaden's work has been known to readers of the Megalithic Portal for many years. His systematic study of British and Irish stone circles, arguing that their stone arrangements enact a…

ReviewsBook Review: Terence Meaden, How Pytheas the Greek Discovered Iron-Age Britain, Stonehenge and Thule, c.325 BC. Pytheas of Massalia (that's Marseille today) is one of those classical figures who…

EventsFiona 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…

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…

EventsStone 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…

EventsThe competition is now over, thanks very much if you entered. Our winner is Richard G from Perthshire who will be getting a vinyl record of the soundtrack, and the art book and film to watch. We had…

EventsIn 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…

EventsIn 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…

Discoveries...and Thule. Terence Meaden writes: Pytheas of Massalia, a Greek scientific adventurer of the fourth century BC was the first literate explorer to meet British countryfolk and write of their…

EventsIn this issue: NE interviews Fiona Robertson, author of the new book Stone Lands • The Cleobury Mortimer ‘sheela na gig’ • the St Michael’s Well solar alignment, Cambridgeshire • H.G. Wells and the…

Roman, Greek and ClassicalRob 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…

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…

MysteriesNewly 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 •…

MysteriesNewly 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…

EventsAmazon UK recently had the best deal I have ever seen on our book The Old Stones: £16.80 so almost half price and with free shipping too. Here's the link to order from Amazon.co.uk and you can also…

EventsIn 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…

EventsOut this week - Stone Circles A Field Guide by Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings, we had 2x copies to give away. Congratulations to our two book winners, drawn totally at random from 120+ entries,…