Standing-stones Sentence Examples

Eday (596) contains several specimens of weems, mounds and standing stones.

The original inhabitants were Picts, evidence of whose occupation still exists in numerous weems or underground houses, chambered mounds, barrows or burial mounds, brochs or round towers, and stone circles and standing stones.

When the barrow was a stone structure, the enclosure was usually a circle of standing stones.

In later times the mound itself was frequently dispensed with, and the interments made within the enclosure of a trench, a vallum or a circle of standing stones.

Around its base are the remains of a circle of large standing stones.

The Semitic cult of sacred standing stones is thus proved to be of great antiquity; Sellin's discoveries at Taannek and those of Bliss at Tell-es-Safy fully confirm this.

Together these standing stones form a good example of a closed box quoit.

In the book, the barrows are described as being clad in springy grass, with tooth like standing stones marking their zenith.

Legend has it that St. Patrick looked at one of the Celt's large standing stones carved with a circular symbol of the sun and drew a cross over the circle.