It was covered with two unhewn slabs of stone, and measured internally about six feet long.
The most primitive of these ancient memorials are the rude unhewn columns or standing stones, as they are called, which abound in nearly every district of Scotland.
There only remain to be noted the earliest traces of luxury and personal adornment contemporary with the rude weapons and implements, and the simple habitations of earth or unhewn stone, described in the previous chapters.
This ancient wall measures eight feet broad at the base, and is mostly built of rough unhewn blocks of moorstone or trap.
But nearly all are of the same character, differing in nothing but relative size, and the varying outlines of their unhewn masses.
It is entered both on the north and south sides by doorways constructed "more Romano," with a plain semicircular arch of unhewn stone.
The Scottish Burghs are large circular fortresses, or bell-shaped structures, built of unhewn stone, and entirely without cement.
Like other Orkney buildings of very different dates, this primitive church is constructed almost entirely of the unhewn clay-slate of the district.
Some of these monuments most probably belong to Pagan times, as they contain only the mysterious symbols, unaccompanied by the emblem of the Christian faith, and are usually of ruder execution, and cut on unhewn stones.
Immediately adjoining the circle are three huge unhewn columns, about fifteen feet in height above the surface of the moor.
The stone itself consists of a massive unhewn block of the secondary greenstone-trap of the district, many large boulders of which lie in the bed of the neighbouring river.
Possibly an explanation of the veneration attaching to great and isolated masses of unhewn stone may be found in their resemblance to the artificial dolmens and cromlechs.
The huts, of which the rough walls of unhewn stone alone remain, are built in terraces one above the other on the hill-side.
We clambered up this, and then perceived, still further to the right, the ruins of several huts and walls, built of unhewn stones and overgrown with the creeping beans.
But they are traversed in various directions by lines of flat unhewn rock slabs, placed at slightly irregular distances from one another, exactly like stepping-stones across a brook.
Two large stones, unhewn and without inscriptions of any sort, have been placed before the shrine.
It was built of large unhewn logs, notched at the ends and laid one upon the other, with the bark still on.
The blocks were apparentlyunhewn and unpolished, the angles ill formed, and the walls not straight.
The interior is filled up with shingle and fragments of unhewn coral.
Float on, then, like the sacred whispers from the unhewn forests!
His first business in Crawford's employ was daubing the cabin, which was built of unhewn logs with the bark on.
It was built of unhewn logs, and had holes for windows, in which greased paper served for glass.
Beside the brook Appears [3] a straggling heap ofunhewn stones!
Solomon Grow found it something of an undertaking to grope his way back from the little hut of unhewn logs, where he had stabled his father's horse, to the door of the cabin and the home-circle within.
Is it not the very office of pii vates et Phoebo digna locuti to purify religion, to cover up decently its rude shapes, as the unhewn stone was concealed in the fane of Apollo of Delos?
Beside the brook Appears a straggling heap of unhewn stones!
In the plain which it encloses there stands erect an unhewn stone of twelve feet in height.
See this wide circus Skirted with unhewn stone; they awe my soul, As if the very Genius of the place Himself appeared, and with terrific tread Stalked through his drear domain.
In the rude mechanism of society in a state of pupilage, the first elements of government, however gross, or even puerile, were the levers to lift and to sustain the unhewn masses of the barbaric mind.
The cornice dentils distinctly betray their derivation from the projecting ceiling beams, which, upon the block-house tombs, had still preserved the round form of unhewn timbers.
Yahweh records his name an altar of earth or of unhewn stone, without steps or other extraneous ornamentation, shall be erected.
The altar at Phorae in Achaea was of unhewnstones (Paus.
The naked figure of suppliant Israel stands before an altar of unhewn stones, on which burns the sacrifice.
They set up a heap of unhewn stone, and called upon God to guard and to see that neither of them passed beyond the boundary of the other.
Two of the largest of these huts were mere shells inside, and used for mess-rooms, exposing the unhewn girders and roof above, but all whitewashed and tolerably clean.
Then, exerting all the force of his powerful frame, a rough slab of unhewn rock yielded to the effort, and rose like a vertical door slung by a massive hinge at the top.
The twelve stones, traditionally said to have come from the Jordan, were also excavated, and found to be large, unhewn masses of rock placed upon two other courses of stone rudely dressed and not squared.
There are, in fact, no ruins visible, with the exception of a few terraces on the Tell, consisting of large blocks of unhewn stone.
The edge, as it were, of a sunbeam lit up the rude chamber crossed with unhewnbeams and roofed above with unconcealed tiles, whose fastening pegs were visible.
Every one has seen a row of stepping-stones across a shallow brook; now pile other stones on each of these, forming buttresses, and lay flat stones like unhewn planks from buttress to buttress, and you have the plan of this primitive bridge.
With the exception of a little unhewn stone about 18 inches square, found in one of the caves connected with the high place, and which might possibly have served as an altar, no altar was found.
The altar of unhewn stones rose upon the sacred rock--sacred since the days of the Jebusites (and possibly since the stone age), to which it was fitted by masonry.
Passing onward, the traveller will pause amid a winding outline of unhewn granite pillars, and he will gradually discover that these are set up to represent the coils of a gigantic serpent, traced, as it were, in stone.
The pillared rocks of that wild domain were the monoliths of Celtic history, and the vast piles of the native moor were the heaped and unhewn pyramids of an ancient and nameless people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unhewn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
