116 



MENHIRS. 



magnificent development of the same idea ; indeed the whole 

 world is studded with the burial-places of the dead. Many 



FIG 136 





Sepulchral Stone Circle. 



of them, indeed, are small, but some are very large, such as, 

 for instance, those of Odin, Thor, and Freya, at Upsala (see 

 Frontispiece). Silbury Hill, the greatest in Europe, has a 

 height of one hundred and thirty feet, and covers five and a 

 half acres. 



FIG 137 



Kit's Coty House. 



The standing stones, or " menhirs," also were no doubt 

 generally erected in memorial of some particular event, the 

 majority being in fact the tombstones of Archaic times. 



