Standing stone

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Ardgroom stone circle, Ireland

Callanish Standing Stones, Outer Hebrides

Standing stones, orthostats, liths or more commonly, megaliths because of their large and cumbersome size, are solitary stones set vertically in the ground and come in many different varieties. Ardgroom is a village on the Beara peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. A stone circle is an ancient monument Such a monument is not always precisely circular and often forms an ellipse or a setting of four stones laid on an arc of a circle Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Where they appear in groups together, often in a circular formation, they are sometimes called megalithic monuments. Standing stones are found throughout the world with no known or documented history.

Standing stones are usually difficult to date, but, pottery found underneath some in Atlantic Europe connects them with the Beaker people; others in the region appear to be earlier or later however. }} Atlantic Europe is a geographical and anthropological term for the western portion of Europe which borders the Atlantic Ocean. The Bell-Beaker culture (sometimes shortened to Beaker culture, Beaker people, or Beaker folk; Glockenbecherkultur) ca

The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of Megalithic sites around the French village of Carnac, in Brittany, consisting of alignments Cove is a term used to describe a tightly concentrated group of large Standing stones found in Neolithic and Bronze Age England. A dolmen (also known as cromlech, anta, Hünengrab, Hunebed, Goindol, quoit, and portal dolmen) is a type of henge is a prehistoric Architectural structure. In form it is a nearly circular or oval-shaped flat area over 20 Metres (65 feet) in diameter A menhir is a large upright Standing stone. Menhirs may be found singly as Monoliths or as part of a group of similar stones Forecourt In Archaeology, a forecourt is the name given to the area in front of certain types of Chamber tomb. A stone circle is an ancient monument Such a monument is not always precisely circular and often forms an ellipse or a setting of four stones laid on an arc of a circle The Stone ship was a Germanic burial custom typical of Scandinavia, built from tightly or loosely fit slabs or stones

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A prehistoric monument consisting of an upright megalith; often in groups

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