Welcome to megalithomania.com. This is a site originally dedicated to Irish megaliths, but now expanded to include
all sorts of antiquities that are of importance/interest.
I try and visit sites each week, and you can easily check what I've been up to by using the Site Visit Diary
on the right hand side. For quick access to the latest trips use the link on the menu bar.
The descriptions that you will find here are my own, they are not always as objective as they
probably should be, but that is because visiting stones, for me, is a very subjective experience.
My interest goes well beyond the physical site itself, or what others consider as being 'the site'.
I believe that a site extends beyond the local limits and into the landscape that surrounds it. I am
constantly marvelling at locations and often comment more on the landscape than I do on the monument
itself. You will find some archaeological information here, but I try to offer more than facts and figures: I
offer perspective in time and place.
Reports of my earlier visits differ greatly from later ones. This happens as you travel around. Each new site adds to your
knowledge and feelings about the next. A new site may make you realise that something you saw at another location is
important after all. With many of the early sites I do need to go back and use the things I've learned from later visits to assess them. Time.
It's all about time and finding enough of it.
Lately, I've found myself changing too. I am more open minded right now than I've ever been - not so quick to dismiss ideas that
I either don't agree with immediately or don't understand. I will not alter the ethos behind megalithomania to reflect this,
but more of me can now be found at http://www.tomfourwinds.com.
I hope you get as much pleasure from these pages as I have had visiting the sites herein and, furthermore, I hope that it encourages
you to go out and visit some of them too.
Until we meet in the stones ... Ride On!!
Tom
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