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"Ringstone with Four Goddesses and Four Date Palms" that has a four-pointed star motif in a border, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) [1] Detail of a complete ringstone having a central border with figures of women in full-length skirts separated by trees, a border motif of fifteen different animals, and a border motif of four-pointed stars, Cleveland Museum of Art Broken section of a ...
Duddo Five Stones – 6 km (4 mi) south of the Scottish border, formerly known as the Four Stones. The Goatstones – a Bronze-age four-poster near the village of Wark on Tyne . Threestoneburn Stone Circle – a circle of 16 stones in Threestoneburn Wood, near the village of Ilderton .
On the side of Belstone Tor, near Oakhampton [sic], is a small grave circle called "Nine Stones." It is said to dance every day at noon. [5] The stones are said to have originally been nine maidens who were cast into stone and damned to dancing every noon for eternity as a punishment for dancing on the Sabbath. Equally, the story has involved ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... This is a list of gemstones, organized by species and types. Minerals
The number of stone circles is often misinterpreted, as damaged burial mounds, kerb cairns, or ring cairns are often confused for stone circle. The archetypal ‘stone circles’ of the mid-to-late Neolithic are far rarer than commonly assumed, appearing mostly in Cumbria, Cornwall, Wiltshire, and Western Scotland.
A stone is ground into shape (often a cabochon or a short, wide cylinder) and polished to a shine. Sometimes the flat surface is engraved with a religious motto in Arabic, which is sometimes inlaid with gold. The finished gem is then mounted on a ring according to the stones finished size. Both men and women wear aqiq rings as jewellery.
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A picture stone, image stone or figure stone is an ornate slab of stone, usually limestone, which was raised in Germanic Iron Age or Viking Age Scandinavia, and in the greatest number on Gotland. [1] [2] More than four hundred picture stones are known today. [3] All of the stones were probably erected as memorial stones, [1] but only rarely ...