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Manos are hand stones used in conjunction with metates for grinding corn or grain.
The remains of standing stones, cairns and bridges can still be identified.
It became an offence to remove stones or items from the site, but the owner of a monument was exempt from any prosecution.
Three of the stones, visible within the cairn mound, are thought to be from the stone circle of that time.
A ring of 17 stones formed an oval, many being in matched pairs either side of the centre.
All but one of the standing stones were intentionally damaged, some were knocked over and six were smashed with heavy stones.
At the end of its period of use the tomb was 'closed' by means of a large stone set across the entrance, between the two portal stones.
It was one foot thick, and was made of stones bound together by cement or clay.
Standing stones, most again dating to the Bronze Age, also occur in large numbers, 276 being found across the county, of which 92 are scheduled.
They were met with a barrage of missiles, not arrows but spears, axes and stones.
Some of the castle's stones may have been reused in 1829 to build the nearby Beaumaris Gaol.
Standing stones at Huntsham, Staunton, and Trellech all have origins dating back to the Bronze Age.
The Gorsedd ceremony was held on the Hermitage Field, next to Plas Newydd, and the circle of stones was later moved into the grounds of the hall.
They are notable for their ability to use stones to break open shellfish on their stomachs.
Eggs are laid on the sea bed, on rock, stones, gravel, sand or beds of algae.
The children in question are held under the arms and the legs, and their backside is bounced on each of the stones of the old borough.
The bedrock, which is also known as the Chester Pebble Beds, is noticeable because of the many small stones trapped within its strata.
The county is rich in archaeological remains such as forts, earthworks and standing stones.
There is a mound of stones there and one stone placed above the pile with the pawprint of a dog in it.
After Christianization, Insular styles heavily influenced Pictish art, with interlace prominent in both metalwork and stones.
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Class III stones are in the Pictish style, but lack the characteristic symbols.
These stones may date largely to after the Scottish takeover of the Pictish kingdom in the mid 9th century.
If no stone circle is there already, one is created out of Gorsedd stones, usually taken from the local area.
Common Oil of Olives, is pressed out of ripe olives, not out of the stones.
The following morning, all the stones containing villagers' names would be checked.
In American English, small stones without sand mixed in are known as crushed stone.
Shallow species live among sponges, stones, or coral, or under the sand or mud, with only their arms protruding.
The first examples were stones, jade pieces, bronze vessels and weapons, but came to include talismans and magic diagrams.
There was also considerable participation in expeditions westwards, which are commemorated on stones such as the England runestones.
There was damage far inland, in Cambridgeshire, where stones fell from Ely Cathedral.
We had stopped throwing stones in view of anyone except ourselves years ago, after we saw the looks on the adults' faces when we outskipped them.
South of Hayling Island in the Solent is a deposit of stones, which scuba divers found to be the remains of a stone building, probably a church.
Typical protective walls and winery's house from basalt stones in the west of the island of Pico.
However, in the presence of a predator, they preferred to seek safety in the space available between stones of a cobble substrate.
The first stones were made in the 1750s, the original source being Ailsa Craig in Scotland.
These stones are swallowed by animals to aid digestion and break down food and hard fibers once they enter the stomach.
When found in association with fossils, gizzard stones are called gastroliths.
They decorated themselves with beads and collected exotic stones for aesthetic, rather than utilitarian qualities.
Music may have developed from rhythmic sounds produced by daily chores, for example, cracking open nuts with stones.
Examining the pit walls revealed that the pit had probably been filled with hot stones on several occasions.
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She had pewter-coloured hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.
Many sites have large quantities of flat stones apparently used as flooring, with only a minority decorated.
Alternatively, the term can be used to refer to stones used as the raw material for tools.
The first lamps were made of naturally occurring objects, coconuts, sea shells, egg shells and hollow stones.
The use of such ropes pulled by thousands of workers allowed the Egyptians to move the heavy stones required to build their monuments.
As graves rarely overlap, they may have been marked by wooden posts or stones.
I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me.
Among the first written sources possibly designating western Finland as the land of Finns are also two rune stones.
The earliest written records from Scandinavia are runic inscriptions on memorial stones and other objects.
Most of these rune stones can be seen today, and are a telling piece of historical evidence.
The Altuna stone from Sweden, one of four stones depicting Thor's fishing trip.
Some grave sites were left unmarked, others memorialised with standing stones or burial mounds.
Some pictorial evidence, most notably that of the picture stones, intersect with the mythologies recorded in later texts.
During the 2nd century the Goths of southern Russia discovered a newfound taste for gold figurines and objects inlaid with precious stones.
Various places in Africa and the Americas have been named after the imagined cities made of gold, rivers of gold and precious stones.
The five rams they rode were supposed to have turned into stones upon their departure and gave the city several of its nicknames.
He stood off a group of islands from which local inhabitants hurled stones at his ship.
Stone Maya stelae are widespread in city sites, often paired with low, circular stones referred to as altars in the literature.
The Aztecs, however, jeered at Moctezuma, and pelted him with stones and darts.
El Dorado is applied to a legendary story in which precious stones were found in fabulous abundance along with gold coins.
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How Cusco was specifically built, or how its large stones were quarried and transported to the site remain undetermined.
In the southern midlands as far south as Hobart, the dolerite is underlaid by sandstone and similar sedimentary stones.
During the 19th century, Ratu Udre Udre is said to have consumed 872 people and to have made a pile of stones to record his achievement.
In 1536, he began to suffer from kidney and bladder stones, arthritis, and an ear infection ruptured an ear drum.
In the groundwood process, debarked logs are fed into grinders where they are pressed against rotating stones to be made into fibres.
A stone mason is one who lays any combination of stones, cinder blocks, and bricks in construction of building walls and other works.
This top level surface permitted a smoother shape and protected the larger stones in the road structure from iron wheels and horse hooves.
To finish the road surface he covered the stones with a mixture of gravel and broken stone.
Keeping the surface stones smaller than the tyre width made a good running surface for traffic.
The small surface stones also provided low stress on the road, so long as it could be kept reasonably dry.
Blanchard's granite quarry provided curb stones to New York City and regional public works projects.
Mosses are also found in cracks between paving stones in damp city streets, and on roofs.
The boundaries are frequently described in terms of features such as large trees, streams or tracks, and even standing stones for example.
On the ridges the general terrain is of loose stones, but elsewhere all is grass and heather.
Northward on the fine turf of the 'saddle' is a large cross laid out in white stones.
The top is rounded and mainly of grass, but there are two low outcrops of rock with loose stones between.
The summit is surprisingly wide and grassy, consisting patches of stones interspersed with short turf.
The top is grassed and it is assumed that the tumulus was built from stones on the north slope.
The main summit stands a little to the south of the saddle, all around being a sea of stones.
Northward is a saddle, marked by a large cross of stones and then the bouldery climb to Symonds Knott, the north top.
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The Romans also cut tuff into small rectangular stones that they used to create walls in a pattern known as opus reticulatum.
Many junctions are so perfect that not even a knife fits between the stones.
The foundation stones are ideally set into the ground so as to rest firmly on the subsoil.
The rows are composed of large flattish stones, diminishing in size as the wall rises.
Smaller stones may be used as chocks in areas where the natural stone shape is more rounded.
The final layer on the top of the wall also consists of large stones, called capstones, coping stones or copes.
As with the tie stones, the capstones span the entire width of the wall and prevent it breaking apart.
Boulder walls are a type of single wall in which the wall consists primarily of large boulders, around which smaller stones are placed.
Ideally, the largest stones are being placed at the bottom and the whole wall tapers toward the top.
The size and number of the stones varies from example to example, and the circle shape can be an ellipse.
The crudeness and variety of the stones excludes the possibility that they had astronomical observation purposes of any precision.
Connected features at some sites include central mounds, outlying standing stones, avenues or circular banks on which the stones are set.
In these, the recumbent stone is usually flanked by the two largest of the standing stones immediately on either side.
The stones are commonly graded in height with the lowest stones being diametrically opposite to the tall flankers.
Instead, there are two tall stones at the side of the circle opposite the recumbent stone.
The stones had cupmarks carved into them and were arranged around a freshwater spring, which suggests they may have been used for a water ritual.
The summit is all rock with many loose stones lying amid the small outcrops.
Leppered stones To build up the apartheiding Mansions Of human Hatred and Doom...NOW I am crying In My Mind Blood tears.
If a man was broil-some, he was likely to go whole-hog about it, utilizing tire irons and stones and teeth.
In the large neglected garden, formal paths outlined with white stones were overgrown with bunny-grass.
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He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
He said he would pay them a cent for every two loads of stones or gravel which they should wheel in to make the causey.
Those stones were sustained or stayed by buckles and fermillets of gold for more firmness.
If you don't have two stones, bake it in two different batches, fridging your remaining doughs whilst you wait.
It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.
In 1899, galelike winds loosened stones, and Lawrence Brignolia, a blacksmith from suburban Cambridge, was leading when he fell on one.
The pair spent a brief but happy period skimming stones, singing songs, and gazing into each other's gigantic gogglesome eyes.
In most cases there are small chambers here, with the cover made of a large slab placed on upright stones.
He then chased Caruso away from the residence while throwing stones at him.
The soldiers responded to a barrage of stones by firing into the crowd, killing between 13 and 50 people.
And Lord God, what herying is it to bilden thee a church of dead stones, and robben thy quicke churches of their bodilich liuelood?
Twelve wagons were loaded with stones, till each wagon weighed three tons, and the wagons were fastened together.
Their names discover what their natures are, More hard than stones, and yet not stones indeed.
Then there was that interminable, deadly pause between disengaging the stones and the old clips releasing from the hotguns.
These huge stones, ten uprights and five lintels, weigh up to 50 tons each.
Visitors are no longer permitted to touch the stones, but are able to walk around the monument from a short distance away.
Additionally, visitors can make special bookings to access the stones throughout the year.
Beginning in 1985, the year of the Battle of the Beanfield, no access was allowed into the stones at Stonehenge for any religious reason.
At the Summer Solstice 2003 which fell over a weekend over 30,000 people attended a gathering at and in the stones.
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He excavated some 24 barrows before digging in and around the stones and discovered charred wood, animal bones, pottery and urns.
During the 1920 restoration William Hawley, who had excavated nearby Old Sarum, excavated the base of six stones and the outer ditch.
They were able to date the erection of some bluestones to 2300 BC, although this may not reflect the earliest erection of stones at Stonehenge.
These fragments do not seem to match any of the standing stones or bluestone stumps.
It is thought that there were originally 98 sarsen standing stones, some weighing in excess of 40 tons.
The two large stones at the Southern Entrance had an unusually smooth surface, likely due to having stone axes polished on them.
The stones were not dressed in any way and may have been chosen for their pleasing natural forms.
Soon after the toppling of many of the stones, the Black Death hit the village in 1349, almost halving the population.
Stukeley was disgusted by the destruction of the sarsen stones in the monument, and named those local farmers and builders who were responsible.
The winged plane, share is used on heavy soil with a moderate amount of stones.
The automatic reset design permits higher field efficiencies since stopping for stones is practically eliminated.
When the framework was removed, the new wall was very strong, with a rough surface of bricks or stones.
This surface could be smoothed and faced with an attractive stucco or thin panels of marble or other coloured stones called revetment.
The Romans had a complex system of sewers covered by stones, much like modern sewers.
These are small, inchoactive stones having a minimal, but definite, matrix and with the calcium salts closely compacted.
From 1937 to 1941, a series of stones were discovered that were claimed to have been written by Eleanor Dare, mother of Virginia Dare.
Most historians believe that they are a fraud, but there are some today who still believe at least one of the stones to be genuine.
After about the age of fifty, James suffered increasingly from arthritis, gout and kidney stones.
Polygonal stonework structures are also considered Cyclopean, composed of medium-large stones or irregular shape and not isodoma.
We scrubbed 'em with horse-brushes on the stones. Jinks, but I rubbed some holes in 'em!
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Officials involved in the road project hope to preserve the stones along a new bicycle path.
He patented a process of mixing tar with chipped stones in 1902, forming Tarmac, a name which he patented.
These querns, or stones used for grinding cereals into flour, were traded for continental exports such as pottery and wine.
Lanacombe is the site of several standing stones and cairns which have been scheduled as ancient monuments.
A series of Bronze Age stone cairns are closely associated with the standing stones.
Through the leafstorm I ran toward her. She had fallen on the path, and a shower of small branches and stones came cascading down upon her.
Wilkins died in London, most likely from the medicines used to treat his kidney stones and stoppage of urine.
He had long suffered from kidney stones, which also lodged in the bladder, causing him great pain.
Ogham stones are found throughout Ireland and neighbouring parts of Britain.
During the same month in Belfast there were seven attacks on Polish homes within ten days, in which stones and bricks were thrown at the windows.
One man who refused to enter a plea was crushed to death under heavy stones in an attempt to force him to do so.
During the Middle Ages, standing stones were believed to have been built by the giants who inhabited the earth before the biblical flood.
They were raised both as solitary stones and in formations, such as the stone ships and few stone circles.
In Norway, standing stones usually dated to the Migration Period, the Viking Age or early Middle Ages.
Each set is organised with the tallest stones at the western end and shorter ones at the eastern end.
Relatively large standing stones are also positioned on the edifice's corners.
The stones stand 150 feet from the A1 and it is thought that the alignment originally included up to five stones.
The name comes from a legend, which goes back to 1721, that says the Devil threw the stones, aiming at the next town of Aldborough.
Within the circle, abutting its eastern quadrant, is a roughly rectangular setting of a further 10 stones.
Some stones in the circle have been aligned with the midwinter sunrise and various lunar positions.
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The rectangular enclosure within the circle, that Stukeley took to be a grave, still consists of 10 stones.
C W Dymond visited the circle in 1878 and 1881, from which visits he produced the first accurate plan of the stones.
Into or onto the nucleus went a course of polygonal or square paving stones, called the summa crusta.
Builders could also place stones or thick mud layers at the foot of the stockade, improving the resistance of the wall.
To prevent farmers taking stones from the wall, he began buying some of the land on which the wall stood.
In early 2010 various stones on the pediment were conserved and rearranged.
Detailed archaeological studies are undertaken to identify exactly which stones need to be replaced or repaired.
The elves of Norse mythology have survived into folklore mainly as females, living in hills and mounds of stones.
Large local stones are sometimes described as the product of a troll's toss.
Pus-filled stitches pocked the sweaty manhair like stones jutting from a Scottish moor.
Historically this was done using pressing stones with circular troughs, or by a cider mill.
There are three ancient standing stones in Boroughbridge known as the Devil's Arrows a mile distant from the site.
On 28 March 1941, Woolf drowned herself by filling her overcoat pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse near her home.
Gielgud is the lone survivor of those great actors whose careers laid the foundation stones of modern theatre.
As attested by the Jelling stones, the Danes were Christianised around 965 by Harald Bluetooth, the son of Gorm.
Naturalistic depictions of Pictish nobles, hunters and warriors, male and female, without obvious tattoos, are found on monumental stones.
These stones include inscriptions in Latin and ogham script, not all of which have been deciphered.
The well known Pictish symbols found on standing stones and other artifacts, have defied attempts at translation over the centuries.
Pictish art appears on stones, metalwork and small objects of stone and bone.
The most conspicuous survivals are the many Pictish stones that are located all over Pictland, from Inverness to Lanarkshire.
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The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
After being bombarded with stones and petrol bombs from nationalists, the RUC, backed by loyalists, tried to storm the Bogside.
Other remains from that era include the Standing Stones of Stenness, the Maeshowe passage grave, the Ring of Brodgar and other standing stones.
The interior consisted largely of the vast lines of morainic stones which marked the stages of retreat of the last northern ice cap.
Tiffany has first pick of some of the best stones mined at Koidu and the remainder are sold to other trade buyers, according to Bloomberg.
The guild's work is characterized by plain surfaces of hammered silver, flowing wirework and colored stones in simple settings.
They look like a regulated graveyard or a series of futuristic standing stones with a passing resemblance to television sets.
She incorporated stones and rocks which had been thrown through her window in a mixed media piece in her 2005 show.
The work consists of a monoprint of herself sitting on a chair with the stones lined up below the drawing in a vitrine.
The tribes chose annually two teams of the fairest maidens who fought each other ceremonially with sticks and stones.
While stones and tiles were used in some parts of the Liaodong Wall, most of it was in fact simply an earth dike with moats on both sides.
Before the use of bricks, the Great Wall was mainly built from rammed earth, stones, and wood.
Consequently, stones cut in rectangular shapes were used for the foundation, inner and outer brims, and gateways of the wall.
Those parts might serve as a village playground or a source of stones to rebuild houses and roads.
The first stone walls were constructed by farmers and primitive people by piling loose field stones into a dry stone wall.
Different types of cairns exist from rough piles of stones to interlocking dry stone round cylinders.
Some are merely places where farmers have collected stones removed from a field.
The same name given to the stones was given to the dead whose identity was unknown.
Hikers frequently add stones to existing cairns trying to get just one more on top of the pile, to bring good luck.
From the early Middle Ages there are elaborately carved Pictish stones and impressive metalwork.
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Nearby Neolithic standing stones and circles also exist, dating from about 4000 BC, following the introduction of farming in the area.
The Ring of Brodgar circle of standing stones is across a bridge immediately to the north.
Three Pictish symbol stones have been found on Skye and a fourth on Raasay.
With their very muscular stomachs, gizzard stones function like a mill and break needles and buds into small particles.
Unlike traditional memorials, the Glenrothes war memorial consists of two interlinking rings of standing stones.
The crown is encrusted with 22 gemstones, including garnets and amethysts, 20 precious stones and 68 Scottish freshwater pearls.
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles.
Kays has been the exclusive manufacturer of curling stones for the Olympics since the 2006 Winter Olympics.
An end is complete when all eight rocks from each team have been delivered, a total of sixteen stones.
In the case of a takeout, guard, or a tap, the skip will indicate the stones involved.
Sweeping is allowed anywhere on the ice up to the tee line, as long as it is only for one's own team stones.
By hitting all of the opponent's stones, it removes opportunities for their getting multiple points, therefore defending the lead.
If the leading team is quite comfortable, leaving their own stones in play can also be dangerous.
Dolmens were typically covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus.
However, it has been impossible to prove that these remains date from the time when the stones were originally set in place.
They consist of a kerb surrounding an oval mound, which covered a rectangular chamber of stones with the entrance on one of the long sides.
As it now stands, the Pentre Ifan Dolmen is a collection of 7 principal stones.
Of the remaining three, two portal stones form an entrance and the third, at an angle, appears to block the doorway.
Some of the stones have been scattered, but at least seven are in their original position.
The main archaeological relics from these times are symbol stones.
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The wall is probably one of the best preserved ancient structures of the island and is composed of large stones without the use of any binding materials.
Splendent of carnal glamour from thy brain Like precious stones behued in tints divine, That hide in dazzling depths a soul long lain, A spirit crystallized, infused, benign!
They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses.
The Varangians left a number of rune stones in their native Sweden that tell of their journeys to what is today Russia, Ukraine, Greece, and Belarus.
Road trains are over 50 m long when towing three trailers. On dirt roads, they trail a blinding cloud of bulldust and window smashing, fist-size stones.
They seem to have mixed the mortar and the stones in the ditch.
Boundary stones to be erected, and general exhortations to avoid conflict.
Lindisfarne Castle was built in 1550, around the time that Lindisfarne Priory went out of use, and stones from the priory were used as building material.
Edged tools were kept sharp with sharpening stones from Norway.
If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Only stones that are in the house are considered in the scoring.
And Martha thought these fine ladies were that flickersome, all milk o' human kindness when it wahn't no use, and stones o' granite when takin' trouble might come handy.
There is no pavement for the foot-goer but the sharp, round stones sticking up from side to side, and sloping down to the sluiceway in the middle.
Quoin stones in the south transept of Stow Minster, Lincolnshire.
The most ambitious meeting was in 1899 when the association hired a steamer to voyage round the Western Isles of Scotland to visit remote sites and see sculptured stones.
Other English stories told of how giants threw stones at each other.
This was used to explain many great stones on the landscape.
For instance, beside the figure of Odin on his horse shown on several memorial stones there is a kind of knot depicted, called the valknut, related to the triskele.
I longed to be part of the over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder club, if only I had boulders to hold! Or small stones. Even pebbles would have been acceptable.
Archaeologists believe the stones were placed there by indigenous peoples.
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We kept quietly on our way until we reached a place in the road that had been freshly graveled, and where the surface was covered with stones just suited to our use.
When the three pulled into a petrol station to refuel, the station's owner called a gang and attacked them and their film crew with stones and chased them out of town.
There are six upright stones, three of which support the capstone.
Slate was traditional material of choice for black Go stones in Japan.
For example, the matter of a house is the bricks, stones, timbers etc.
An external fireplace from Ronaes Skae was constructed as a perimeter of stones surrounding a mud and clay hearth on which charred wood was found in a spoke pattern.
The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
I doubt not, Stonehenge in Saxon signifies the hanging stones.
If these are the key elements of the monument then, it is argued, the stones were never designed to be buried within a mound, and they never formed a chamber to contain bones.
However, conventional techniques, using Neolithic technology as basic as shear legs, have been demonstrably effective at moving and placing stones of a similar size.
Another idea has to do with a quality of the stones themselves.
Where they lived and what their culture was like can be inferred from the geographical distribution of brochs, Brittonic place name elements, and Pictish stones.
Pentre Ifan was studied by early travellers and antiquarians, and rapidly became famous as an image of ancient Wales, from engravings of the romantic stones.
Plans to upgrade the A303 and close the A344 to restore the vista from the stones have been considered since the monument became a World Heritage Site.
Many older houses, especially in smaller towns and villages, are of this type, with walls usually constructed from large stones cemented together.
The tools were formed by knocking pieces off a river pebble, or stones like it, with a hammerstone to obtain large and small pieces with one or more sharp edges.
Bleached stones and blackened gorse stems can still be seen and the vegetation has not recovered sufficiently to equal the waved heath elsewhere on Scilly.
Granite is a natural source of radiation, like most natural stones.
In 1966 and 1967, in advance of a new car park being built at the site, the area of land immediately northwest of the stones was excavated by Faith and Lance Vatcher.
I founde here and there litle peces of marquesites and stones, menged with copper, but I could by no sense or wit perceyue, that the bathes had any notable qualitie thereof.
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Many of the cells there still show hollows licked into the stone walls, as prisoners had only the damp and moss on these stones to sustain themselves.
In the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods, local people destroyed many of the standing stones around the henge, both for religious and practical reasons.
Curling stones are traditionally fashioned of Ailsa Craig granite.
Gower is also home to menhirs or standing stones from the Bronze Age.
A cove of three stones stood in the middle, its entrance facing northeast.
One of the most notable of the stones is Arthur's stone near Cefn Bryn.
Grey granite was quarried at Rubislaw quarry for more than 300 years, and used for paving setts, kerb and building stones, and monumental and other ornamental pieces.
The majority of the standing stones that had been a part of the monument for thousands of years were smashed up to be used as building material for the local area.
There are no tall flanking stones on either side of the recumbent stone.
Some dinosaurs are known to have used gizzard stones like modern birds.
These picture stones, produced in mainland Scandinavia during the Viking Age, are the earliest known visual depictions of Norse mythological scenes.
Other more or less local stones were used around the empire.
Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together.
Dry stone walls are characteristic of upland areas of Britain and Ireland where rock outcrops naturally or large stones exist in quantity in the soil.
Incense are used to cleanse and restore energy in healing stones.
It sometimes became so thick that stepping stones were needed.
Celtic inscribed stones from this period occur in western England and Wales, and the CISP project has been set up to record these and provide information online.
A pit dug into the clay at BC 5 had been filled with burnt clay nodules, charcoal and burnt stones, which had been covered with a large piece of wood.
The specimens of crystals and other hard stones, which were worked both in India and China, the style determining their nativity, are equally choice.
Afonso prepared Malacca's defenses against a Malay counterattack, building a fortress, assigning his men to shifts and using stones from the mosque and the cemetery.
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But other hard and tough stones were used, such as igneous rocks from Penmaenmawr in North Wales, and similar working areas to Langdale have been found there.
The theory is dismissed by some experts, particularly in James's case, because he had kidney stones which can lead to blood in the urine, colouring it red.
Settlements in the area date from prehistoric times, with circular huts, burial chambers and standing stones featuring in the highest concentration in Britain.
Size of stones was central to the McAdam's road building theory.
These early tools, however, were likely made of perishable materials such as sticks, or consisted of unmodified stones that cannot be distinguished from other stones as tools.
Actually, I'm not sure I like these new hangis using the foil, it tends to stop the juices getting through to the stones and I reckon the hangi kai is drier to the palate.
On 12 July Nelson was at one of the forward batteries early in the morning when a shot struck one of the sandbags protecting the position, spraying stones and sand.
Adder stones are supposed to be efficacious against disease of cattle.
He also wrote that the quality of the road would depend on how carefully the stones were spread on the surface over a sizeable space, one shovelful at a time.
The stones that remained were built into a cairn to honour the dead.
The type of wall built will depend on the nature of the stones available.
The stones may have been thought to deter grave robbers and scavengers.
Some believe that the first proper lamps were carved from stones.
Throwing stones at the bus is another example of your obnoxious behaviour.
The form also occurs as a personal name on some Swedish rune stones.
While there are few remains of runic writing on paper from the Viking era, thousands of stones with runic inscriptions have been found where Vikings lived.
The largest such activities were the mining and quarrying of stones, which provided basic construction materials for the buildings of that period.
The main top is marked by a cairn set amid an area of stones.
The script frequently encodes a name or description of the owner and surrounding region, and it is possible that the inscribed stones may have represented territorial claims.
The stones inside the theatre literally sing with opera, musicals and orchestral music, and I wanted to convey the sense of an international space created by the art of music.

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