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They are thought to be the oldest monument in Liverpool, having been part of a megalithic tomb constructed between 4000 and 3000 BC. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The stones are housed in the Harthill Greenhouses in Calderstones Park, having been moved from their previous location in an enclosure just outside the park gates in 1954 to protect them from further ...
In archeology, a cist (/ ˈ k ɪ s t /; also kist / ˈ k ɪ s t /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek: κίστη, Middle Welsh Kist or Germanic Kiste) or cist grave is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead.
Menhirs and other standing stones are technically orthostats although the term is used by archaeologists only to describe individual prehistoric stones that constitute part of larger structures. Common examples include the walls of chamber tombs and other megalithic monuments, and the vertical elements of the trilithons at Stonehenge .
The Bronze Age tomb is undergoing more examinations at a lab. ... Archaeologists descended upon the roughly 3-foot square cist, a kind of prehistoric box-shaped tomb, excavating it from the park ...
The tomb, situated on a small ridge, is a cist, a type of burial chamber found in Ireland on the south and east coast.It dates from about 3000 B.C. to 2500 B.C. A capstone, measuring 1.96 metres (6 ft 5 in) by 1.05 metres (3 ft 5 in), is supported by smaller stones.
Prehistoric Paleolithic finds of lithic industry, Poggio Sommavilla-Grappignano, Tiber Valley. [3] [4] [5]The morphological entity of the river terrace of Poggio Sommavilla-Grappignano at the confluence of the Tiber and the Aia torrent in front of the Treja (Paleotevere), [6] [7] geologically made up of gravelly-sandy deposits, undoubtedly constitutes the area that boasts the greatest density ...
The Carraig á Mhaistin stone (transl. Bully Rock) is a megalithic tomb located in Cork harbour. It was previously believed to have been an 18th-century folly , built by Murrough O'Brien, 1st Marquess of Thomond , like the nearby Siddons Tower folly.
The Züschen tomb (German: Steinkammergrab von Züschen, sometimes also Lohne-Züschen) is a prehistoric burial monument, located between Lohne and Züschen, near Fritzlar, Hesse, Germany. Classified as a gallery grave or a Hessian-Westphalian stone cist ( hessisch-westfälische Steinkiste ), it is one of the most important megalithic monuments ...