Sentences with menhir
men·hir
M m - A menhir is a sort of northern European variety of the stela, an ancient upright stone or pillar serving as a monument, and accepted by the credulous as being generally mystical.
- In Europe, such menhirs are sometimes arranged in rows and groups or ‘alignments', while in Britain, especially, they form circles or ellipses.
- The resulting work, an egg-shaped menhir shaped from layers of rust-red sandstone, still stands on a hill above the road into the village.