How To Use Standing stone In A Sentence
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That such gaps were originally filled by standing stones is beyond question, indeed, the base of a "schistose" stone (see Class 3 in the Lithology above) was actually discovered by
Stonehenge Today and Yesterday
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There are hundreds of other chambered cairns and standing stones and several stone circles across the islands.
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A stela is a free-standing stone slab, generally rectangular in shape but sometimes with a rounded or pointed top.
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Anyway, she walks through this circle of standing stones and appears back in 1743 where the first person she sees when she emerges from her confusion is a gentlemen in 18th century army officers 'uniform, who looks just like her husband.
Matthew Peterson interviews Diana Gabaldon
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Standing stones and circles, henges, cup-marked stones and dolmens have intrigued us for generations, but there is little real evidence of their true purpose.
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White beaches, standing stones, flowers on the machair, Gaelic psalm-singing (which sounds like no other church music in Europe - a Chinese or Mongolian feel to it) and monstrous alcohol consumption on a Saturday night (an Englishman is best advised to avoid Stornoway dockside bars) followed by a real Sabbath - no shops, taxis, bars - you go for a walk or go to church.
Archive 2005-06-26
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The slabs of standing stone point roughly toward the invisible notch.
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The standing stones are weather-beaten and cracked, but they remain nevertheless.
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The slabs of standing stone point roughly toward the invisible notch.
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Certain courageous souls might spend the night keeping watch in the center of a circle of standing stones.
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The strange standing stones, remnants of a burial chamber, are said to house an invisible living occupant - Wayland.
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I grew up in some of the more remote parts of Scotland with undiluted access to history and myth amid standing stones, cairns, tombs and ruins.
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Some areas in northern France are also known for their megalithic standing stones, called dolmens or menhir.
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The field site contains over 45 stone circles, passage graves, standing stones and dolmen tombs and has been the focus of excavations for more than twenty years.
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There's something other-worldly about the Orkney Islands, with its legions of lichen-clad standing stones, which sprout from ancient barrows against the spectacular northern sky.
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I saw the incomplete circle, lit up in the darkness of the mill's eaves, the pillars looking as peaceful as ancient standing stones despite the fretful, angry slogans they were covered in.
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Certain courageous souls might spend the night keeping watch in the center of a circle of standing stones.
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It also mentions the remains of a standing stone called the Humber, just outside the village of Humberstone.
Do You See What I See?
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John Anderson has a post on masseboth standing stones, which are important archaeological evidence about ancient Israel, and raise interesting questions both about Israelite "monotheism" and aniconism.
Archive 2009-07-01
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The character of the uncarved standing stone argues against it being ninth century or, indeed, commemorative.
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Far older, yet equally abundant, are the barrows, hillforts, stone circles, camps, standing stones, trackways, and other relics of prehistoric times that have survived for several thousand years.
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Some areas in northern France are also known for their megalithic standing stones, called dolmens or menhir.
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The potential significance of Nabta as a ceremonial site was further strengthened by the discovery of an arrangement of stone megaliths (large free standing stones) on the western edge of the Nabta basin.
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The view of the Aran Islands and beyond is astounding, as is the local geography, which includes caves, dolmens, standing stones, holy wells, around 75 megalithic tombs and around 500 Iron Age forts.
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Hollowed out mid-way was a small chamber which contained seven standing stones, now clamped to the walls with metal hoops.
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Everywhere you go in Ireland there are standing stones, circles, cromlechs and tumuli.
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Megalithic standing stones and a 5000 year-old passage grave, a twelfth century church ruin, a fourteenth century O'Driscoll castle, cannonaded in the early 1600s, suggest times past.
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They also plan to erect a standing stone in New York City's Central Park, carved with Viking runes in honour of Eriksson's 1000th anniversary.
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Ancient Scots and Picts erected a 10 ft tall standing stone at the site to commemorate the historic act.
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The earliest settlers left behind them a remarkable array of monuments: standing stones, burial chambers, villages and brochs.
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The area around Jard-sur-Mer is deeply historic, and dotted with dolmens and standing stones.
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Everywhere you go in Ireland there are standing stones, circles, cromlechs and tumuli; some of huge size.
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Standing stones and circles, henges, cup-marked stones and dolmens have intrigued us for generations, but there is little real evidence of their true purpose.
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Surviving monuments in the Kilmartin Valley include a ‘linear cemetery’ of Bronze Age cairns, several standing stones, a stone circle and numerous elaborate rock art panels.
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At the centre of this monument are several upright stones, and a great big capstone lying horizontally across the top and resting on mere knife-edge points of three of the standing stones.
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New Stone Age man did leave plenty of traces of his presence, however, in the form of long and round barrows, standing stones and henges, mostly concentrated on the drier uplands of the moors, wolds and Tabular Hills.
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Near the centre was a tall standing stone now marked by a concrete obelisk, adjacent to which was a short straight line of stones which may have formed one side of a square around the central upright.
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The strange standing stones, remnants of a burial chamber, are said to house an invisible living occupant - Wayland.
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Starting way back in time - the ground is ridged with long earthworks, there are large round tumuli and there are standing stones that look like a circle on the horizon as you approach them but perhaps are more of a line.
