standing stone
Example Sentences
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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
A suspected arson attack on a standing stone thought to be thousands of years old has horrified experts.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2023
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
Then Ben was no longer there, and there was not one standing stone, but many.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
