Sentence examples for stone upright from inspiring English sources

After 1220 English designers began to conceive of the tympanum as a series of openings separated only by thin, stone, upright bars (bar tracery).

To place a stone upright so that it stands vertical is an act of symbolic recognition: The stone becomes a presence, a dialogue begins.

Digging down in mid-July, the team discovered what they believe was a fermenting room and a brewing room with stone uprights that could hold 20 vessels at a time over fires.

Inside the best preserved of these structures sits a series of notched stones set upright in the ground, which the archaeologists hypothesize supported wooden beams that were then covered with plants and mud to create a raised floor.

Notched stones set upright in the floor of the building, about 1 to 1 1/2 feet high, presumably supported wooden beams, which spanned the structure.

The steep rock continued, pitch after pitch, an endless slab of upright stone.

A row of upright stone slabs along the ahu were backrests for the gods, while other stones indicated the places of human officiants.

Four upright stones, called the Station Stones, were erected near the Aubrey Hole ring, probably also during the second stage of Stonehenge, if not during the period between the monument's first and second stages.

Once you've seen one dolmen – an upright stone tomb – you have seen them all.

A small marker headstone, flush to the ground, requires much less space than an upright stone.

The second site, Bryn Celli Ddu, features a Neolithic passage grave with an upright stone carved on two sides and on top with zigzag and spiral lines.