Topic summary
Standing stone
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Menhir.
See also
- Asherah pole – Canaanite sacred tree or pole honouring goddess
- Baetyl – Type of sacred standing stone
- Carlin stone – Name of many stones in Scotland
- Carnac stones – Set of megalithic sites in Brittany, France
- Ceremonial pole – Stake or post used in ritual practice
- Cove (standing stones) – Tight rectangular group of stones
- Cromlech – Ring of standing stones
- Deer stone – Megaliths found largely in Siberia and Mongolia
- Dolmen – Type of single-chamber megalithic tomb
- Fulacht fiadh – Burned mound from the Bronze Age in Ireland
- Gowk stane – Standing stones and glacial erratics in Scotland
- Henge – Type of Neolithic earthwork
- High place – 1st-millennium BCE Canaanite shrine
- Inuksuk – Inuit built stone landmark or cairn
- Kigilyakh – Natural tall rock pillars in Yakutia
- Ley line – Straight alignments between historic structures and landmarks
- List of individual rocks – Named rocks (not types of rock)
- List of largest monoliths
- Megalith – Large stone used to build a structure or monument
- Moai – Monolithic statues on Easter Island
- Napakivi – Standing stones in Finland
- Nature worship – Worship of nature spirits
- Obelisk – Tapered four-sided stone monument
- Obelix – Cartoon character in the French comic book series Asterix
- Orthostates – Man-made large stone slabs set in upright position
- Matzevah – Sacred pillar (in the Bible) or Jewish headstone. Also matzeva/mazzeva/maseba/masseba/massebah.
- Statue menhir – Standing stone carved into a human shape
- Stele – Stone or wooden slab erected as a marker
- Stone circle – Ring of standing stones
- Stone row – Linear row of standing stones. Also stone alignment.
- Stone ship – Stones set in the shape of a boat in north European burials. Also ship setting.
- Stone slab – Flat, thin, and big stone
- Trees in mythology – Significance of trees in religion and folklore