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A collection of spheroids, very hard stones used in the production of other stone tools and also thought to have ritual use, found at Arbor Low, currently on display at Weston Park Museum, Sheffield

The cist in 1848, illustrated in Bateman’s Ten Years Diggings, currently on display at Weston Park Museum, Sheffield

Always worth checking in on this as I’m in the vicinity, especially given its vulnerability in suburban Dublin.

Impressive fosse and bank on the western side of the barrow.

Passively hungry sheep come visiting.

Looking south over the quarried top of the barrow.

Way more impressive than I expected from reading about it in the Archaeological Inventory.

Possibly a small bronze age barrow.

Much more overgrown than 19 years ago.

Looking west, Slios Garbh behind keeping an eye on me.

Looking north, a bleak night but no drenching.

Round cairn high above where supposed long cairns are, looking west.

Postcard dated 1920 of Trethevy Quoit

Visited June 2011

Visited June 2011

Revisited June 2015

Revisited June 2015

Revisited June 2015

Revisited June 2015

Revisited June 2015

Revisited June 2015

A really nice woven natural wreath that a fellow pagan had obviously put there for the winter solstice, full of beautiful coloured willow and dogwood and other stems. Others may disapprove but personally we think it’s lovely to see that these sites still generate veneration and this is marked by secret others. All biodegradable and just adds to the place we reckon

On a visit a couple of days ago, it really seemed that the capstone has in fact cracked into two and the smaller piece fallen off it’s upright causing the whole capstone to collapse inward. This would not have been recently, but many many years ago. But the texture of the faces on the stone on the ground, the matching surfaces and the way it could have looked when intact seemed very possible – and once we saw it we couldn’t unsee it.