We went up to Sunhoney Stone Circle recently. It was the first time up to this site, although I’d long been intrigued simply by the name.
As you can see, the stones are composed of a pink conglomerate, that in the lazy autumnal sunshine just seemed to suit the name Sunhoney so much. The air was still & warm, and the stones seemed to exude a warmth all of their own. Sunhoney is known as a recumbent stone circle, owing to the largest of the circle stones being set on its side, in between two others:
No-one knows for sure quite why these circles were built in this way, but the recumbent has been found to focus on the major moonrise, with the moon ‘framed’ between the uprights. A good 5000 years old, still standing, and still doing what it was designed to do. Cool eh?
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