Thankyou for to all those that participated in making Megalithomania 2007 a great success. The event ran fairly smoothly (apart from technical hiccup with Chris Street & Robert Temple not wanting to leave the stage!) and overall, even us organisers enjoyed several of the talks. We will be holding Megalithomania part 3 next May 17th & 18th. One of the issues that came up at the 2007 event was the 'SAVE TARA' campaign, to help stop the motorways being cut through this ancient sacred landscape in Ireland. Please visit these websites and sign the petition, donate and spread the word.....www.tarawatch.org, www.hilloftara.info and www.tarasolidarityvigil.net.

Anthony Murphy, the Irish speaker at the event has written a beautiful article about the Tara story, and is in the latest AVALON RISING magazine, that was launched this week of The Sunrise Celebration festival in Somerset. It is still available for £1 from various shops or you can buy it from the website www.avalonrising.co.uk. It also features articles Hugh Newman, Robin Heath, Shaun Kirwan and Stuart Mason, all who have appeared at Megalithomania.

Anyway, we will keep you informed about developments as they occur for next years Megalithomania, and please feedback about the 2007 event. For example; any speakers you could recommend?, were the talks too long?, enough breaks? Did you enjoy the Bardic Trials? etc...we'd like to hear your thoughts on these. Also if any of you have photos or reviews of the event, please send them over. We can put them on the website fully credited to you. We will be updating the website next week with new photos. Watch this space...

This review by Maia of Shaldon

"I have just arrived home from the megalithomania conference and it was mega - as the young may say. And yes a bit manic as well. Every speaker was well prepared and had material to share to inspire us all, even the novice stoner. Not that there were many of those in more ways than one at Glastonbury Assembly Rooms.

From the oldies we had new ideas, better technology and ways to show us their connections/ revelations; the new faces were brimming over with enthusiasm to share their secrets! A refreshing change from 'croppies' I think. I could barely write fast enough to record the fascinating words of the great Irish researcher Anthony Murphy and the equally speedy historian Ronald Hutton. We were taken by picture and story from Africa to Ireland, the islands of Malta and Lewis, and given a thorough overview of our own UK sites. Chris Street had me thinking I would like to visit London! Now that would be a miracle, I hate cities. We looked at the relatedness of leys, light phenomena, lenses and cats; we considered the stars, planets, solar and lunar cycles. No stone was left unturned? Well actually we megalithomaniacs would not touch one too roughly let alone turn it. Would we???

The issue of Tara in Ireland and the new road through her site was clearly close to all our hearts. My thoughts (and cash) goes with the lads who are keeping that fight going. We thought Swampy's mile was bad down here in Devon, well this development is nothing less than an outrageous tragedy.

The happy 'accident' of the Bardic Finals was just icing on the cake. I loved it all.Thank you all, the organisers, the speakers, the traders and the audience. This conference was a very special event indeed".

All the best & thank you - Maia