standing stone
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"The stone platform predates the standing stone itself, suggesting continuous ritual use of this site over hundreds of years, strongly linked to the water and the importance it held for Bronze Age communities."
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025
Archaeologists have discovered that what was thought to be a single standing stone in a forest is part of a larger ceremonial site dating back 3,700 years to the Bronze Age.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025
Like the woman’s increasingly upsetting visions, these time warps seem related to the eerie, vaguely human-shaped standing stone that looms over the island, a memorial to a past seafaring tragedy.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023
This goes some way to proving that Carlinwell Stone is a genuine prehistoric standing stone, rather than something put up later.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2011
Their last meal had been lunch beside the standing stone the day before.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
