Start of a long thread on megaliths for #StandingStoneSunday, following our summer holiday adventures in Brittany 🇫🇷 & Cornwall 🇬🇧. Starting with an alignment in Erdeven.
If you like standing stones, I have previous 🧵on Neolithic & Bronze Age sites in Sardinia, from the past two years when I was a visiting prof there (geography not archeology!). I have a long-standing interest in how humans inhabit landscape so I love old & new standing stones, dragging the family along. #Bornées #geography

Not far from there, in Plouharnel (Brittany 🇫🇷, we happened upon a fabulous dolmen in a field when we got a bit lost on a walk looking for megalithic sites. Then we searched for the more accessible dolmen de Crucuno in the village of the same name, now resting up against a stone farmhouse. It seems incredible for someone to build so close to this monument, but I don’t know the local history. Two fabulous sites, but don’t visit them - as we did - in a heatwave! #StandingStoneSunday

The site in Kerzerho, in Erdeven (Brittany 🇫🇷) has several remarkable megaliths in a long looping walk. We explored around, between menhirs, “giant stones” and possibly used for sacrifices (hey, or picnics, no?). The Erdeven alignments are apparently made up of several hundred monoliths spread over almost 2 km, but it’s hard to get a feel for the hugeness from the ground. Magical place, with few visitors in early July (French schools still not on holiday). #StandingStoneSunday