Barn Storm

It is not often I get angry, but a recent encounter with a standing stone has really annoyed – and shocked me. I am pretty used to prehistory being badly treated, and indeed a whole chapter of my forthcoming book (have I mentioned this before?) deals with 20th and 21st century biographies of megaliths that have been treated shoddily. Many of these bounce back however, or take on a new life for a new audience, and most are still valued by a variety of different people and communities. And then there is the Bogleys Stone of Fife. Visualistion of the urban Bogleys Stone (artist unknown) I came across the story of this standing stone by chance, as I was looking for a megalith to visit on a trip to Fife. Soon I encountered a visualisation of a standing stone set into what looked like cobbles situated in some kind of park. This (admittedly) crap vision for this standing stone came from a proposal for a future housing estate. But how on earth had a standing stone become part of this vision?…