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A consecrated stone that forms all or part of the mensa of an altar.
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Formed or vaulted like a beehive.
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(archaeology) A ridge formed on the surface of flaked stone, such as a arrowhead or hand axe, as the result of the intersection of two or more flake removals.
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A dome-shaped tomb, or tholos.
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(historical) In Ancient Rome, a place that had been struck by lightning and consecrated and enclosed.
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(archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-layered walls found on Orkney, Shetland, in the Hebrides and parts of the Scottish mainland.
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A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
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(painting) A type of landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual setting.
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(archaeology) A type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn.
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A dolmen or ancient underground tomb in Wales, usually made with stones disposed in a circular shape.
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A cup-shaped or dome-shaped object.
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A prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a capstone supported by two or more upright stones, most having originally been covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow.
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A stone circle or cromlech.
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(archaeology) The presence of flaking in an artifact.
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An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
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A stone slab set at the head of a grave.
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A traditional stone marker providing directions for travellers.
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A gravestone, a grave marker: a monument traditionally made of stone placed at the head of a grave.
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Marked with, or as if with, a headstone or headstones.
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A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb.
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A megalithic tomb or tumulus in Japan, often with a distinctive keyhole-shaped mound.
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(obsolete) A tumulus of stones.
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A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
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(obsolete, dialect) Alternative form of lissen [(dialect) A cleft or hollow in rock.]
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A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East.
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A stone monument related to this symbol, constructed by laying stones in a particular pattern on the ground oriented to the four directions.
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(archaeology) A construction involving one or several roughly hewn stone slabs of great size.
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The culture surrounding the building of megaliths.
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(archaeology) A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially one dating to prehistoric times.
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(also attributively) A large, single block of stone which is a natural feature; or a block of stone or other similar material used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient times.
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marked by the positioning of a monument, often in the form of a small stone or concrete structure
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A cromlech, a stone circle, a lithic burial structure in the Sinai connected to various superstitions.
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(archaeology) A dry-stone round megalithic tower found in Sardinia.
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An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world.
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Alternative form of omphalos [An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world.]
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(archaeology) An upright stone or slab.
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(figuratively) Laid out or made, as intentions, desires, plans, etc.
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A series of standing stones surrounding a barrow or burial mound.
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(archaeology) A primitive building partially dug into the ground and roofed over.
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A prehistoric monument consisting of many stones
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(archaeology) The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
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(architecture) A type of masonry in which the courses have differing height, length, or thickness of stones, though the stones in any one course are alike.
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Alternative form of pseudisodomon [(architecture) A type of masonry in which the courses have differing height, length, or thickness of stones, though the stones in any one course are alike.]
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An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
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(geology) A feature, on the undersurface of a sedimentary stratum, that is a cast of a corresponding feature on the upper surface of the lower stratum
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(archaeology) A table on which finds are sorted by date, origin etc.
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(archaeology) A megalithic pile of stones found in the Salento region of Italy.
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spirit tablet; ancestral tablet; memorial tablet (tombstone tablet with the name and details of the deceased or an ancestor inscribed on it, usually found in Chinese or generally East Asian columbariums)
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A prehistoric monument consisting of an upright megalith; often in groups
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(archaeology) an obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone
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(archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
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obsolete typography of stelae
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Obsolete form of stele (“upright slab; column”). [(archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.]
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(archaeology) a prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle.
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(Judaism) The ceremony of erecting or unveiling a person's tombstone.
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Obsolete form of stele (“upright slab; column”). [(archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.]
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(archaeology) A kind of Bronze Age megalith found on the islands of Minorca and Majorca.
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A round building, dome, or cupola.
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A gravestone made so as to lie flat.
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(archaeology) A circular arrangement of wooden posts, interpreted either as a complex of freestanding poles or as the support for a large circular building.
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Alternative form of dolmen [A prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a capstone supported by two or more upright stones, most having originally been covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow.]
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(computing, Microsoft Windows) A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.
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(anthropology) Any art form which depicts a totem on a stone or other engraving.
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A structure consisting of two stone pillars supporting a horizontal stone.
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A four-sided pyramid- or obelisk-like trellis designed to help train climbing plants.
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(archeology) A technique for identifying the functions of artefact tools by closely examining their working surfaces and edges.
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(archaeology) A prehistoric monument composed of a ring of timber (typically surviving as a ring of postholes)
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