From Rosicrvcian Symbology by George Winslow Plummer, 1916.

From At the Edge, No. 1.

From Druidism: The Ancient Faith of Britain by Dudley Wright, 1924.

A fellowship of standing stones.  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1953 yearbook.

From The Old Stones, A Field Guide to the Megalithic Sites of Britain and Ireland by Andy Burnham.

Grave field with standing stones, burial mounds, stone circles and other monuments at Stenehed, Svarteborg, near Hällevadsholm. Wash drawing from the beginning of the 19th century.  Courtesy of Swedish National Heritage.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: an anagram for our friend Holy-Mountaineering.  Other anagrams we considered were: A onetime hungry lion; A genuine loony mirth; Metering a holy union.

The nearest one might be right behind you.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1902.

Stone circles from Monumentos Antiguos y Modernos by Julio Gailhabaud, 1845.

From Bertha by Elizabeth Harriot Hudson, 1870.

My standing collection of vintage monoliths.

Endpapers from The Druid Path by Marah Ellis Ryan, 1917.

In Scotland (whether or not at Loch Ness), sometimes you see only the head of a beast, but sometimes (as in this Pictish stone at Gairloch) it's the head that's invisble.

1469283385.634.9151_sourceFrom Johnnykin and the Goblins, written and illustrated by Charles Leland, 1877.

"Standing stones, Greby grave field, Bohuslän, Sweden."  Watercolour by Olof Hermelin, c. 1880.