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The place name "Rudston" is first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and means "cross stone" and refers to this monolith. The standing stone is the largest in Britain. It is 7.7 m high, 1.8 m wide and 76 cm thick. The weight of the stone is around 40 tons. The menhir is made of a material whose nearest occurrence is about 16 km away. Its top is missing; if you extend the contour, almost 70 cm is missing. In modern times, a cap was placed on the broken top to protect the porous material from the elements. The standing stone is located in the cemetery surrounding the 14th century parish church.

The place name "Rudston" is first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and means "cross stone" and refers to this monolith. The standing stone is the largest in Britain. It is 7.7 m high, 1.8 m wide and 76 cm thick. The monolith is made of a material whose nearest occurrence is about 16 km away. Its top is missing; if you extend the contour, almost 70 cm is missing. In modern times, a cap was placed on the broken top to protect the porous material from the elements. The weight of the stone is around 40 tons. The standing stone is located in the cemetery surrounding the 14th century parish church.

The place name "Rudston" is first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and means "cross stone" and refers to this monolith. The standing stone is the largest in Britain. It is 7.7 m high, 1.8 m wide and 76 cm thick. The monolith is made of a material whose nearest occurrence is about 16 km away. Its top is missing; if you extend the contour, almost 70 cm is missing. In modern times, a cap was placed on the broken top to protect the porous material from the elements. The weight of the stone is around 40 tons. The standing stone is located in the cemetery surrounding the 14th century parish church.

The place name "Rudston" is first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and means "cross stone" and refers to this monolith. The standing stone is the largest in Britain. It is 7.7 m high, 1.8 m wide and 76 cm thick. The monolith is made of a material whose nearest occurrence is about 16 km away. Its top is missing; if you extend the contour, almost 70 cm is missing. In modern times, a cap was placed on the broken top to protect the porous material from the elements. The weight of the stone is around 40 tons. The standing stone is located in the cemetery surrounding the 14th century parish church.

The Wheebin Standing Stone (aka Stane O' Quoybune) is a menhir that was erected in the 2nd millennium BC. It is 3.5 m in height. The menhir is fenced in by now, as the constant rubbing of domestic animals over the years polished the surface of the lower part of it.

The Clouduhall Stone is a standing stone south of St Margaret's Hope. The stone is about 2.5 m high. The stone may mark a burial. An ancient stone cist cairn about 40.0 m away.

Meigle was probably the site of an important early medieval Pictish monastery, the centre of which was the present church and churchyard. There was a holy site here even before the Picts were Christianised in the 6th and 7th centuries. Picts (picti ‘the painted ones’) is the name used by the Romans in late antiquity for peoples in Scotland. The name is attributed to the widespread custom of tattooing. The peoples referred to by the Romans as the Picts were probably not one ethnic group, but different peoples with different cultural traditions, who nevertheless formed political and military alliances in the face of common enemies. The origin of the Picts is unclear. Their language and culture disappeared when the kingdoms of the Picts and the Celtic Scots were united under Kenneth MacAlpin in 843 AD. The Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum has an exceptional collection of carved Pictish stones The Pictish cross-slab (Meigle 1) has a height of 2,25m. The stone was originally used as a standing stone two millennia before it was sculpted by the Picts, it has cup and ring marks low down on the back of the stone. The cross is Greek in style. The inside of the cross is decorated with interlace patterns, the cross-point being decorated with spirals. This may be the oldest stone at Meigle, possibly carved in the late 8th century.

Muirkirk Stane (aka Lighshaw Standing Stone) is a standing stone close to the village of Muirkirk. The menhir is about 2,10m high stands near the A70.

The Drumtroddan standing stones are a Neolithic or Bronze Age stone alignment. The monument comprises three stones, only one of which is now standing. The two end stones are 3m in length; the middle stone is roughly 2.7m long. The stones were likely set up in the 3rd or 2nd millennium BCE.

The Drumtroddan standing stones are a Neolithic or Bronze Age stone alignment. The monument comprises three stones, only one of which is now standing. The two end stones are 3m in length; the middle stone is roughly 2.7m long. The stones were likely set up in the 3rd or 2nd millennium BCE.

At a distance of 134 metres to the northeast of the Gors Fawr cromlech are a pair of standing stones - one of which is known locally as the 'Dreaming Stone' - that may have been physically linked to the circle by a stone avenue. Both of these outliers are taller than the circle stones with one measuring 1.9 metres and the other 1.7 metres in height. The pair are set 14 metres apart and could be said to form a southwest to northeast alignment which has lead some to suggest that they could point to the midsummer sunrise over the nearby hill of Foel Dyrch.

The Menhir du Camp de César (Menhir de Bourg-Jardin) is around 7.2 metres high and weighs around 85 tonnes. It is one of the largest menhirs in France. The menhir is the only survivor of three stones that stood here until the 20th century.

The Menhir du Camp de César (Menhir de Bourg-Jardin) is around 7.2 metres high and weighs around 85 tonnes. It is one of the largest menhirs in France. The menhir is the only survivor of three stones that stood here until the 20th century.

Oviedo was founded on a hill that the Romans called Ovetao. The monks Máximo and Fromestano founded a monastery on the Roman road in 761 and built a hermitage. Later, two dozen monks from the Muslim south joined the founders and, according to a document, chose Fromestano as their first abbot. They were under the protection of Fruela I, who chose the place as a residence for his wife Munia, who gave birth here to their son and later King Alfonso II. Alfonso II (aka "the Chaste", "el Casto" moved the capital here in 812 and made Oviedo the seat of the bishopric. In 912, however, Oviedo lost its function as capital to León under García I in the course of the reconquest. Alfonso II fortified Oviedo and furnished it with palaces and churches. During his reign, a tomb attributed to St James the Elder was discovered in Santiago de Compostela in 812. The king travelled from Oviedo to Santiago and is said to have been the first pilgrim to Santiago. He is also said to have opened the first Way of St James, the Camino Primitivo. Until the city of León was established as both the capital of the Kingdom of León and the nexus of a safe route — the Camino Francés — the Camino Primitivo remained the most frequented route for those going to Santiago. The Museo Arqueológico de Asturias is housed in a 16th century monastery. The Comisión Provincial de Monumentos, founded in 1845 to protect Spanish and Asturian cultural assets and monuments, opened a museum in 1870 for artefacts from Asturias and other donated items. The Museo Arqueológico de Asturias was officially founded in 1944 and moved to its current location. Decorated stone slab / neolithic

The menhir is about 3,50m high. For a while the standing stone was used as a marker stone at the limit between villages, then disused and forgotten. It was re-discovered in 1975 by a farmer when ploughing the field, and re-erected in 1986. There is a cross engraved a cross.

The "Pedra d'Anta" menhir is located near Alvadia. It was reerected and restored to its original location. It is about 4 metres high.

The "Pedra d'Anta" menhir is located near Alvadia. It was reerected and restored to its original location. It is about 4 metres high.

The stone was discovered on its side in 1969 and was raised again about a year later. The granite monolith is 5.6 m high and weighs an estimated 8 tonnes. It is the second largest in Portugal. The top has a hollow of 30 cm in diameter, which is believed to represent a urethra, thus giving rise to the understanding that the megalith symbolizes a phallus.