The graves themselves were piles of stone, shaped like overturned rowboats.
"The ring was large and had a blue-green stone shaped like an elephant, outlined in silver.
There is a huge concentration of crystallised formations and extraordinary stone shapes, such as stalactites, stalagmites, columns, ponds and draperies.
The Greenpoint statue, a likeness of the priest's head on a stone shaped like Poland, was unveiled in 1990.
One of the objects, the palma, or palmate stone (shaped like a hand with extended fingers), was first thought to have had some religious significance.
The train stopped and our guide, Katja, explained that the 13 miles of caves and wild stone shapes were formed by erosion and dripping water from the Pivka River.
The firm used the computer to streamline the design, reducing the variation in the stone shapes and thereby cutting fabrication costs.
The proud structure – a singing stone shaped like a mammoth egg – was a tribute to music and pagan forms and the wonderment of creation.
Such is the strength of the water that it can leave behind great piles of heaved-up stone shaped to its swell.
