- 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...
- 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...
- soldiers. 8th
century BC. Such
orthostats adorned the
Royal Buttress in Carchemish.
There were long
lines of such
orthostats.
Museum of
Anatolian Civilizations...
- 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...
-
prehistoric Europe and
found on the
structural elements, like the kerbstones,
orthostats, or
capstones of
megalithic tombs, but
recent investigations have included...
- in the late 1930s the
Derbyshire Archaeological Society set two of the
orthostats standing again. Nine
Stones Close is
located on
Harthill Moor in Derbyshire...
-
Drystone walling consisting of smaller, flat
stones was
packed between these orthostats. A
stone cairn had been
added to the east of the circle,
perhaps in a...
- 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...
- the
architecture of many cultures. In
Hittite and ****yrian sculpture,
orthostats are
often intricately carved. The term may be used more
generally of other...
