menhir

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Some 500 years before Stonehenge, predecessors of the Celts near Locmariaquer in Brittany may have used the 385-ton stone Grand Menhir, now toppled and broken, for astronomical observations.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Menhir is a block of stone standing on its end.

From History Of Ancient Civilization by Seignobos, Charles

Such are the Dolmen, called in Corsica Stazzone; and the Menhir, to which they give the fanciful name of Stantare.

From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas

Menhir, men′hēr, n. a tall, often massive, stone, set up on end as a monument in ancient times, either singly or in groups, circles, &c.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Menhir, a kind of rude obelisk understood to be a sepulchral monument.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin