Cove (standing stones)

Cove is a term coined by the British antiquarian William Stukeley term for groups of large plate-shaped menhirs from the Stone and Bronze Age Britain. This upright stone slabs are mostly rectangular or square and occur within Henges, but also in stone rows and stone circles. There are usually three, sometimes four of orthostat enclosing a square or approximately square area. They are reminiscent of dolmens, but do not have a capstone, but are open at the top. Its original function is unknown.

British examples are:

• Avebury in Wiltshire with two Coves Avebury Cove, near the center of the northern inner stone circle originally consisted of three large standing stones consisting get two of which are
• Beck Hampton Cove, to the larger of the two " Long Stones " is one that is also called " Adam and Eve "; the smaller stone is possibly the remains of a stone row, as William Stukeley 1724 suggested