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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

menhir [Breton,=long stone], in archaeology, name given to the single standing stones of Western Europe, and by extension to those of other lands. Their size varies and their shape is rough and squared, tapering toward the top. See megalithic monuments .

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