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The final track on the album, "Skyrim Atmospheres", consists entirely of ambient sound effects. The ambient piece "Frostfall" features cello and other lower register strings as well as vocals which are similar to those used in Howard Shore's The Lord of the Rings. "Standing Stones" opens with an ominous male choral and suspended strings. At the ...
The Menhir de Champ-Dolent (French: [meniʁ də ʃɑ̃ dɔlɑ̃]; Breton: Maen-hir dolenn) is a menhir, or upright standing stone, located in a field outside the town of Dol-de-Bretagne. It is the second largest standing stone in Brittany and is over 9 metres high.
The Ménec alignments, the best-known megalithic site among the Carnac stones Stones in the Kerlescan alignments Megalithic alignments at Carnac Le Menec alignments. The Carnac stones (Breton: Steudadoù Karnag) are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Brittany in northwestern France, consisting of stone alignments (rows), dolmens (stone tombs), tumuli ...
A menhir (/ ˈ m ɛ n h ɪər /; [1] from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long" [2]), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age.
Menhirs and other standing stones are technically orthostats although the term is used by archaeologists only to describe individual prehistoric stones that constitute part of larger structures. Common examples include the walls of chamber tombs and other megalithic monuments, and the vertical elements of the trilithons at Stonehenge .
In The Standing Stone, a tiefling sorcerer named Dyson discovers a circle of standing stones constructed centuries ago by druids to hold their annual rituals; the druid community was later destroyed by the great dragon Ashardalon. Dyson uses the magic of the stones to replace people with animals transformed into humanoid form, loyal to him.
This suggests the Forenaghts Great Stone was erected in the period 2450–1900 BC when Beaker was in use in Ireland. The Punchestown Longstone probably dates to the same time. In 1981, a Bronze Age cist burial containing the cremated remains of four people were found 700 m (800 yd) east of the Longstone.
A stone row or stone alignment is a linear arrangement of megalithic standing stones set at intervals along a common axis or series of axes, usually dating from the later Neolithic or Bronze Age. [1] Rows may be individual or grouped, and three or more aligned stones can constitute a row.