Stone row

The term alignment is sometimes taken to imply that the rows were placed purposely in relation to other factors such as other monuments or topographical or astronomical features.

Another theory is that each generation would erect a new stone to contribute to a sequence that demonstrated a people's continual presence.

The terminals of many rows have the largest stones and other megalithic features are sometimes sited at the ends, especially burial cairns.

The stones are placed at intervals and may vary in height along the sequence, to provide a graduated appearance, though it is not known whether this was done deliberately.

Stone rows were erected by the later Neolithic and Bronze Age peoples in the British Isles, parts of Scandinavia and northern France.