There is a marathon here in the UK called the Neolithic Marathon which starts at the ancient stone circle of Avebury and ends at Stonehenge and is most definitely on my “to do” list.

In the meantime I have devised my own Neolithic Half Marathon, a 13 mile route which takes in some Neolithic rock carvings on a mound near to where I live. Not quite sure what Neolithic man would make of Garmins and GPS navigation and running for fun. But I love looking at the rock carvings and cup marks and marvelling at their existence over thousands of years and the connections they represent with the past and speculating as to their meaning.

Today however I did not linger speculating for too long as in true Scottish summer fashion, it started raining.

Neolithic rock carvings

Neolithic rock carvings

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