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  2. List of menhirs - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, around 200 stone monuments (taalos) are found in the northeastern Botiala site, most of which consist of cairns. There are a number of rows of standing stones on the eastern side of the structures, which are similar to those at Salweyn, a great cairn-held situated close to Heis. Besides cairns, the Botiala area also features a few ...

  3. Menhir - Wikipedia

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    A menhir (/ ˈ m ɛ n h ɪər /; [1] from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long" [2]), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age.

  4. Standing Stones of Stenness - Wikipedia

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    Sunset at the Standing Stones of Stenness An 18th-century engraving of the Odin Stone. Let us imagine, then, families approaching Stenness at the appointed time of year, men, women and children, carrying bundles of bones collected together from the skeletons of disinterred corpses–skulls, mandibles, long bones–carrying also the skulls of totem animals, herding a beast that was one of ...

  5. Callanish Stones - Wikipedia

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    The Calanais Stones consist of a stone circle of thirteen stones with a monolith near the middle. Five rows of standing stones connect to this circle. Two long rows of stones running almost parallel to each other from the stone circle to the north-northeast form a kind of avenue .

  6. List of megalithic monuments in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    stone circle - -Bohonagh: Cork: stone circle - Brownshill Dolmen: Carlow-portal tomb: 5000–6000 years -Carnfree: Roscommon-cairns, standing stones - Carrigagulla: Cork-stone circles, stone rows - Carrowkeel Tombs: Sligo

  7. Clach an Trushal - Wikipedia

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    It occupied a place within the circle, although its placement was not central. The second last standing stone was removed in 1914, and used as a lintel. From the base the stone circle at Steinacleit archaeological site is clearly visible to the north east. The Callanish standing stones are 20 miles (30 kilometres) southwest.

  8. La Torre-La Janera megalithic site - Wikipedia

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    A standing stone of the site. La Torre-La Janera megalithic site is located in the municipalities of Ayamonte and Villablanca in the province of Huelva, Andalusia.It was discovered when in 2018 a farmer intended to prepare the land to cultivate avocados and in view of the archaeological potential of the site the local council demanded a survey to be made. [1]

  9. Punchestown Longstone - Wikipedia

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    The stone is made of local granite; it is almost 7 metres high and weighs over 9 tonnes. Out of around 600 standing stones in southwestern Ireland, this is the tallest. It fell over in 1931, and was re-erected three years later. [2] [4] [5]