Menhir

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A menhir (; from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, placed by humans, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. They can be found individually as monoliths, or as part of a group of similar stones.

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