monolithe
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- histoire archéologie
- Dernière mise à jour
Terme privilégié :
- monolithe n. m.
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anglais
Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française,Définition
Any number of large boulders or blocks of sandstone, probably remnants of eroded tertiary beds or of prehistoric buildings.
Notes :
The sarsens of Stonehenge, in England are the most famous stones of this kind.
Sarsen apparently variant of Saracen (because they were originally thought to have built the buildings).Termes :
- sarsen
- graywether
- druid stone
- Druidstone
- Saracen boulder
- sarsen stone