
Saro
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Overview
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Saro is a megalith in Saro, Georgia. In open records it appears as Wikidata item Q21160607, mapped at 41.5056° N, 43.2794° E.
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About Saro
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A megalith is a large stone used to build a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or with other stones. More than 35,000 megalithic structures have been identified in Europe, from Sweden in the north to the Mediterranean in the south, and megaliths are found worldwide. The word was first used in 1849 by the British antiquarian Algernon Herbert for Stonehenge, and comes from the Greek for "great stone". Most extant megaliths were erected between the Neolithic, with some earlier Mesolithic examples, and the Bronze Age. The oldest known ceremonial structures in the world, Göbekli Tepe and Nevalı Çori in Turkey, are dated to about 9000 BCE. The full article, “Megalith (type not specified)”, follows below under About this kind of monument.
Dating
This site is undated in the open records the Atlas draws on, and the Atlas does not guess a date for it. Where a regional range exists for this kind of monument it is given in the notes on this page, as background and not as a date for this site.
Landscape and neighbours
Counting outward from Saro, there are 0 catalogued sites within 1 km, 1 within 5 km and 1 within 10 km, and none of them is of the same kind. It is one of 1 megalith records among the 1 sites catalogued in Saro, Georgia.
The nearest neighbours in the catalogue are Khertvisi (2.9 km south, other / unclassified); Hartashen Megalithic Avenue (77.4 km south-east, megalith); Uplistsikhe (92.5 km north-east, other / unclassified). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
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Wikidata lists the site with the heritage status Cultural Monuments of National Importance of Georgia. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q21160607), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Sites of this kind often lie on farmland or other private ground, so check local access rules before visiting and leave the monument as you found it.
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This page was built automatically from Wikidata (CC0), the heritage register named above and the regional article “Megalith (type not specified)”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), plus distances and counts computed from the catalogue coordinates. It contains no AI-written text.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Megalith (type not specified)
A megalith is a large stone used to build a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or with other stones. More than 35,000 megalithic structures have been identified in Europe, from Sweden in the north to the Mediterranean in the south, and megaliths are found worldwide. The word was first used in 1849 by the British antiquarian Algernon Herbert for Stonehenge, and comes from the Greek for "great stone". Most extant megaliths were erected between the Neolithic, with some earlier Mesolithic examples, and the Bronze Age. The oldest known ceremonial structures in the world, Göbekli Tepe and Nevalı Çori in Turkey, are dated to about 9000 BCE.
The most widely known megaliths are not tombs. The main kinds are single stones, such as menhirs and monoliths; multiple stones, such as stone circles (cromlechs) and alignments; dolmens; cists; and megalithic walls, also called cyclopean walls. Megalithic art, painted or carved on kerbstones, orthostats or capstones, is found in many parts of Western Europe, with the main concentrations in England, Malta, Ireland, Brittany and Iberia, and it is highly abstract.
Megaliths were used for a variety of purposes, from boundary markers of territory to reminders of past events, to being part of the religion of a society. Contemporary megalith-building cultures exist in Indonesia, among the Toraja and in the Marapu tradition. In the Atlas, a record marked only "megalith" lacks a more specific type, usually because the source did not say, and it receives a broad date range.
Dating relies on associated finds when a monument is excavated; otherwise it depends on shape and comparison.
When visiting, look first at the setting, and at whether the stone looks worked or natural.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Megalith, Wikipedia: Menhir, Wikipedia: Dolmen, Wikipedia: Megalithic art · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photographs
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Where it stands
Georgia
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 41°30′20″ N, 43°16′46″ EFor a GPS or map app: 41.50556, 43.27944
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Khertvisi985–1354 CE
- MegalithHartashen Megalithic Avenue4500 BCE–600 CE
Uplistsikhe250–150 BCEԿոթող Վահան Ամատունուն
- MegalithArdar Davit Kulesi
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Bərkin ağzı kurqanları
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kurqanlar (3 ədəd)
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Çoban Qurban oğlu kurqanı
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
1 source behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q21160607wikidata.org
Image files
- Saro megalith-1.jpgAleksey MuhranoffCC BY-SA 3.0
- Saro megalith-2.jpgAleksey MuhranoffCC BY-SA 3.0
- Saro. R.Beridze. 2011 (13).JPGRusudan Beridze SerafitaCC BY-SA 3.0
- Saro. R.Beridze. 2011 (2).JPGRusudan Beridze SerafitaCC BY-SA 3.0
- Cyclopic fortification in Saro, Georgia.JPGOriginal uploader was Serafita at Georgian WikipediaCC BY-SA 3.0
- Saro St. Archangel Church and cyclopic structures, Georgia.JPGThe original uploader was Serafita at Georgian Wikipedia .CC BY-SA 3.0
- Saro fortress, Georgia (2010).JPGThe original uploader was Serafita at Georgian Wikipedia .CC BY-SA 3.0
- Saro megalith (photo by Rusudan Beridze, 2010).jpgThe original uploader was Serafita at Georgian Wikipedia .CC BY-SA 3.0
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Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
- Wikidata Q21160607CC0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
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- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
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