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- not an orthostat). Menhirs and other standing stones are technically orthostats although the term is used by archaeologists only to describe individual...
- Carrington in 1849. Carrington found a burial chamber built from limestone orthostats with a paved floor. The bones of thirteen individuals were recovered as...
- earliest-discovered possible depictions of the Moon is a 3,000 BCE rock carving Orthostat 47 at Knowth, Ireland. The crescent depicting the Moon as with the lunar...
- soldiers. 8th century BC. Such orthostats adorned the Royal Buttress in Carchemish. There were long lines of such orthostats. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations...
- henge, stone circle or avenue features. They consist of three or four orthostats placed together to give the impression of a box. An opening between the...
- prehistoric Europe and found on the structural elements, like the kerbstones, orthostats, or capstones of megalithic tombs, but recent investigations have included...
- south-east. The monuments' façades and internal walls are made up of orthostats, a row of large stone slabs laid on end. The centre of the façades is...
- in Europe is the portal tomb—a chamber consisting of upright stones (orthostats) with one or more large flat capstones forming a roof. Many portal tombs...
- 5,000 year-old triskelion on an orthostat at Newgrange...
- Each had clearly been worked with the final visual effect in mind: The orthostats widen slightly towards the top in order that their perspective remains...