- Go Historic ID
- 888
- Getty AAT ID
- 300006983
- Term Type
- site type (non-building)
- Hierarchy Level
- term
- Term Title
- megalithic site
- Alpha/Index Term
- site, megalithic
- Term Slug
- megalithic-site
- Category Title
- megalithic sites
- Category Slug
- megalithic-sites
- Notability
- 2 - minimal historic importance
- Parent Terms
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- Child Terms
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Sometimes containing one or more graves, it is believed that the stone serve as a funerary monument, perhaps to those lost at sea. It is also proposed that that alignment of the stones correspond to the rising and setting of the sun at the time of solstice.","num_images":0,"num_people":0,"num_sites":0,"num_things":0,"indexed_at":"2024-01-20 13:29:18","updated_at":"2024-09-05T16:20:57.000000Z","created_at":"2012-12-12T00:00:00.000000Z","pivot":{"topic_id_2":888,"topic_id":32584,"created_at":"2015-08-13T22:05:03.000000Z","id":43726,"updated_at":"2019-10-10T00:23:29.000000Z"}}]
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