This afternoon, heavy rain animated the rock art site of Cairnbaan, near Kilmartin.

Autumn sunshine reflects upon the ocean at Kilmory and I see sun dogs and a halo.

An early evening visit to photograph rock art sites at Lordenshaw.

A skyline walk along the main ridge of the Simonside Hills reveals a series of Bronze Age burial mounds that have interesting relationships to rock formations and the sky.

This week I visited three probable Bronze Age cairns on a prominent ridge near Rothbury in Northumberland. They have been partially robbed, and remodeled in recent times, but are set in a striking location.

Down Tor stone circle and row (also known as Hingston Hill) is set in a remote and atmospheric location in southwest Dartmoor. There are spectacular tors nearby.

A walk in the central Lake District, featuring a dynamic cloud formation and Neolithic worked stone.

Having just completed our fieldwalking survey near Golspie, I was joined by Richard Bradley, Ronnie Scott and Annette Jack on a visit to the Ferrycroft Visitor Centre and heritage trail in Lairg.

Given the likely importance of marine travel for moving people, animals and materials in prehistory, today we visited the peninsular of Tarbat Ness which is not far from the village of Portmahomack. Located across the Dornoch Firth from Loch Fleet this offered a marine-orientated perspective upon the area we have been fieldwalking over the past two weeks.

More fields investigated, along with a visit to a chambered cairn and Dunrobin Castle Museum.

This archaeological fieldwalking survey is investigating an unusual concentration of Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts that has been found along the shoreline of Loch Fleet, near Golspie in northern Scotland.

A blustery walk along Hadrian's Wall in winter sunshine.

A visit to several Iron Age hillforts, and a Bronze Age cairn, near the village of Ingram.

At Goatscrag Hill is an array of distinctive sandstone cliffs that overlook the Milfield basin. The walls of an overhanging rock shelter are distinguished by unusual carvings of animals.

The area around Chatton Park Hill is one of my favourite clusters of rock sites in Northumberland.

My first visit to Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island. The isle is joined to the coastline of Northumberland by a tidal causeway.

It's been a glorious sunny day in Argyll on the west coast of Scotland. I divided my time between visitingcup and ring rock art around Kilmartin Glen, and landscapes with elemental qualities.

Walker and author Linda Cracknell recently broadcast a thought provoking piece about quartz, and it features my research on Ben Lawers in collaboration with Richard Bradley.

Following our dawn observations at Cuween Hill, Ronnie and I went straight to to the port of Stromness for the return journey across the Pentland Firth.

Cloudless skies today in Hoy, so I headed out along the coastline and up into the hills.