standing stone
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"What we've uncovered is evidence of a much more complex ceremonial landscape, which the original standing stone is part of," Dr Shaw explained.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
"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
She took several hurried steps backward, until her body found the standing stone.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
