Thursday 15 January 2015

Trilithon



The formation of two upright stones capped by a horizontal lintel.
The 18th-century antiquary William Stukeley was the first to coin the term trilithon, from the Greek for ‘three stones’, after which the word seems to have entered common usage in English. There are five trilithons at Stonehenge, which make up the inner horseshoe of sarsen stones.