menhir

How To Use menhir In A Sentence

• Auray is a good central point for visiting the Celtic remains: — menhirs, dolmens, cromlechs, all of which are as plentiful here as are calvaries, shrines, and churches in Léon. Brittany & Its Byways
• The place where we went most often was Carnac, on the South coast of Brittany, a little town famous for its stunning prehistoric menhir alignments.
• While many monuments consist of separate stones raised on end as menhirs, stone circles (as at Stonehenge), and avenues (as seen at Carnac, in France), the same technique was often used in walling chambers.
• The best known of these types are as follows: Firstly, the menhir, which is Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
• Moreover, in the departments of Aveyron, Tarn, and Hérault have been found what are known as menhir-statues, upright pillars of stone roughly shaped into human semblance at the top; they are of two types, the one clearly female and the other with no breasts, but always with a collar or baldric. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
• And as at dusk and dawn the great menhirs of Stonehenge fill with a mysterious, granitic life, seem to be praying priests of stone, so about these gathered hierophantic illusion. The Metal Monster
• Thirteen-year-old Aishwarya Pastapur of Springfield, Ill., who loved to pump her arm and exclaim "Yes!" after getting a word correct, finished third after flubbing "menhir", a type of stone monolith. Undefined
• Yes!" after getting a word correct, finished third after flubbing "menhir", a type of monolith. Gazette.com :
• All of the stone circles, menhirs, dolmens, etc., of the British Isles were constructed by peoples who antedated the Celts by one to three thousand years.
• Some areas in northern France are also known for their megalithic standing stones, called dolmens or menhir.