Physical form
Standing stone
18 sacred places classified as standing stone in Pilgrim Map. This form sits within megalithic structure.
Lund Standing Stone
Baltasound, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the low moorland of southwest Unst, the most northerly inhabited island in the British Isles, a massive gneiss boulder stands roughly 3.8 metres tall with a girth...
Macleod's Stone
Tarbert, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a small hillock above Traigh Iar beach on the west coast of Harris, a single standing stone has held its ground for approximately five thousand years....
Grand Menhir Brisé d'Er Grah
Locmariaquer, Morbihan, France
Before the pyramids rose in Egypt, Neolithic peoples on the coast of Brittany erected a standing stone over twenty meters tall, weighing more than three hundred tonnes....
Menhir de Champ-Dolent
Dol-de-Bretagne, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Nine and a half meters of pinkish granite rise from a field near Dol-de-Bretagne—100 tonnes hauled four kilometers by people who left no written record....
Piève statue-menhirs
Haute-Corse, France
In the village of Piève in northern Corsica, three Bronze Age granite figures stand before the parish church of San Quilicu....
Santa Maria statue-menhir
Haute-Corse, France
At a crossroads in the Castagniccia village of Cambia, a slender schist standing stone has held its ground for millennia....
Statue-menhir of Tavera
Corse-du-Sud, France
The Tavera statue-menhir is a 2.42-metre anthropomorphic standing stone carved from fine-grained granite by Bronze Age inhabitants of the Gravone valley — considered one...
U Cantonu
Corse-du-Sud, France
At the entrance to the village of Pila-Canale, near its cemetery, two granite standing stones have kept watch for three and a half millennia....
Auchencar Standing Stone
Machrie, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the west coast of the Isle of Arran, where the coastal road runs between the mountains and the sea, a tall blade of red sandstone rises from a sheep field near...
Ballymeanoch Neolithic site, Kilmartin Glen
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
In Kilmartin Glen, where more than 350 ancient monuments cluster within six miles of a quiet village, Ballymeanoch holds its ground with particular intensity....
Ballynaglogh Standing Stones, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
Causeway Coast and Glens District, Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann, United Kingdom
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Mor Stein
Shapinsay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the southeastern shore of Shapinsay, one of the inner Orkney Islands, a single standing stone rises roughly ten feet from the turf....
Nether Largie standing stones, Argyll, Scotland
Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom
Five massive stones stand in an X-shaped pattern at the heart of Kilmartin Glen, mainland Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape....
Rudston Monolith
Rudston, England, United Kingdom
Rising nearly eight meters from a Yorkshire churchyard, the Rudston Monolith has anchored human spiritual activity for over four millennia....
Standing Stone of Hollandstoun
North Ronaldsay, Scotland, United Kingdom
On North Ronaldsay, the most northerly of Orkney's inhabited islands, a standing stone known as the Stan Stane rises approximately four metres from the ground....
Stone 'O Quoybune
Birsay, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Stone 'O Quoybune rises three and a half metres from a field beside the Loch of Boardhouse in the parish of Birsay, on Mainland Orkney....
The Devils Arrows
Boroughbridge, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the fields west of Boroughbridge, the Devil's Arrows are among Britain's tallest and most mysterious standing stones....
The Setter Stone
Eday, Scotland, United Kingdom
On the island of Eday, one of Orkney's less-visited northern isles, a single standing stone rises approximately four and a half metres from the moorland....