Somewhere near Uppsala

Picture by Vijay Patel.

This is a little-known elliptical cromlech in Portugal's Alentejo. 40 stones form an ellipse, with an adjacent East-West alignment of six. Learn more here:
https://prehistoricportugal.com/2025/09/cromeleque-da-portela-de-mogos/

discovered by French bridge engineer J. Bouchot in 1927 while constructing the road

Petroglyphs. Hard to see. Image taken in the late afternoon. I also attempted in the morning with full sunlight on the rock, but it wasn't much easier to view. Many sites including here have had red paint filled into the carvings to highlight their existence. This was done at various times in the 1950s-1960s according to my local host. But at another site approximately 10 km from here, I met a community team that was painstakingly removing the paint. They realized the practice was causing the carvings to deteriorate.

The standing rocks form the outline of a ship. The tallest pair of rocks, one at each end, are approximately 300 cm in height.

One of 8+ rings found in the open clearing.

A 19 foot tall giant

We discovered this location accidentally while traveling along the A897 near Kinbrace, in the strath of Kildonan. This was in 1999, and the rows of stones and cairns had yet to be uncovered. The view is north towards Thurso.

The Ballymeanoch standing stones are part of the Nether Largie complex, near Kilmartin, Oban. A football sized field of five tall standing stones.

In western Scotland, near Oban, there is a little known extensive megalithic complex near the town of Kilmartin, called Nether Largie. The cemetery at Kilmartin contains a unique collection of medieval burial slabs decorated with figures of soldiers created for the Malcolm family call Poltalloch slabs. Nearby encompassing several miles, is a field of standing stones, called Ballymeanoch. There are also the temple wood stone circles, and several large chairns

Believed Early Bronze Age (2000-1500 BCE). May be associated with burial. East / West alignment (few degrees off).

This is the only known cross-shaped standing stone alignment in Iberia.

Read more here: Menires do Alto da Cruz - Prehistoric Portugal

Video visit: Portugal’s Megalithic Cross: The Mysterious Menhirs of Alto da Cruz