aberlemmo

Updated: July 9, 2026

In some cases menhirs mark the site of a tomb, and sometimes, as is the case with the obelisks of Egypt, they commemorate some happy event. A standing stone in Scotland preserves the memory of the battle of Largs, which took place in the thirteenth century, and a piously preserved legend tells how the menhir of Aberlemmo was set up in honor of a victory over the Danes in the tenth century.

marquis de Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac - Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples