Club Meg News: The Journal for Stone Circle Builders
(This page updated on June 14, 2006)
Six years ago, I began to
publish a newsletter for the Club Meggers, the people who are out there building
stone circles, or have some peripheral interest in the subject. It’s called Club
Meg News. The first 26-page issue (full 8-1/2” by 11” format)
came out
Issue One: Inauguration of the Dragonstones in Surrey, Raising a 10-ton stone, Raising stones at Columcille by hand, “Seahenge” in Norfolk (newly uncovered ancient wood circle), New stone circle in New Zealand.
Issue Two: Megalithic engineering (Cliff Osenton), Stones Rising at Four Quarters (Orren Whiddon), The Millenium Stone saga, Modern Woodhenge in Michigan
Issue Three: (First issue
in color!) About the Megalithics workshop, New stone circle in
Issue Four: Celtic
cross-quarter days, Winter sunrise at megalithic chamber in southern NY, Uluru
and Kata Djuta (
Issue Five: The
Issue Six: Brithdir Mawr stone circle update, Keppel Henge in Ontario, Talking to Stones (Cain), Megaliths at Earth Sanctuary (Pettis), News from Columcille and Four Quarters, The Inca: Masters of Megalithic Engineering (Roy), A “Gneiss” New Monolith in Ontario, The Mystery of the Burnt Hill Stones. BACK ISSUES NOT AVAILABLE.
Issue Seven: Raising Juliesteyna (the new 20-ton winter solstice stone), Wally Wallington (The Forgotten Technology), Labyrinths Quest by Marty Cain, The Cottonwood Stone Circle by Chuck Pettis
Issue Eight: Menehune Stone Circles in Hawaii?, Peephenge, Mini-Megalithic Journey, Celtic Dragon Circle in Montana, Marcel's Stone Circle at Lake Agassiz, Manitoba, more "news from the ancient world" (Stone Pages) Lots of color in this issue thanks to a new process.
Issue Nine, Winter Solstice, 2003: Stone Circles and Alternative Building, Clyde's "Snake's Egg" Stone Circle, The Spirit of Place by Linda Baker, the Crow-oakenden Stone Circle, Dominic Ropner's Time Circles (Click on "Links", top of page), Gary Kirk's Circle, Building a New Stone Circle in Ireland by Tony Hathway, Paul Borda's Stone Circle in Vermont, and Krieg Williams Circle in Centerburg, Ohio. Half of the 24 pages are full color, the most color yet.
Issue Ten, Summer Solstice, 2004: New stone circles in England (by Ivan McBeth), Oregon, North Carolina and New Zealand; "Foamhenge;" Stonehenge Covered; more Archaeo News and an article about English megalithic engineer Gordon Pipes. Again, half of the 24 pages are in full color.
Issue Eleven, Winter Solstice, 2004: Megalithic images (photos by Marty Cain), A Zen Medicine Wheel Stone Circle, Spirit Springs S.C., The Boghill Stone Circle, An Amazing Megalithic Afternoon, and Archaeo News.
Issue Twelve, Summer Solstice, 2005: Orkney Islands, Coral Castle, Installing a 2.9-ton stone, lots of Archaeo News, two "minilithic" stone circles.
Issue Thirteen, Winter Solstice, 2005: Topridge Stone Circle, The Nebra Sky Disc (Ed Schoenley),The Moonmaiden Stone Circle (Ivan McBeth), the Burlington Earth Clock Project, MegaCo/07 announced.
Issue Fourteen, Summer Solstice, 2006: Handmade Inca Wall and Labyrinth (Gary Kirk), The Stone Circle at the Maya Center, Stonehenge Quarry Site Revealed and other Archaeo News, Cottonwood Stone Circle Expanded (Chuck Pettis), Ancient megalithic alignments in New Jersey, "The Stone Circle."
In addition, Club Meg News has book reviews, letters, and articles about new discoveries at ancient sites, reproduced with permission from the excellent Archaeo News on the Stone Pages website: http://www.stonepages.com Thanks to Paola Arosio and Diego Meozzi for maintaining that wonderful website.
Subscriptions and Back Issues. Club
Meg News has a subscriber list of only 40, so there is no economy of
scale at the production end. Half the pages are expensive color, but worth
it. Postage is high, too. The cost of a one-year
subscription (two issues at the solstices) is just US$15 in the United States,
US$20 elsewhere. A very limited number of back issues (except the sold-out
#6) are available at $7 each. Please add $2 per order, regardless of quanity and
an extra $2 for orders outside the U.S. Use checks or money orders in U.S. dollars, or
use
If you have questions, call Rob Roy, 518-493-7744.