Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Stone Circles of Senegambia' has mentioned 'Laterite' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Together the stone circles of laterite pillars and their associated burial mounds present a vast sacred landscape created over more than 1,500 years. | WIKI |
| The monuments consist of what were originally upright blocks or pillars (some have collapsed), made of mostly laterite with smooth surfaces. | WIKI |
| The stones were extracted from laterite quarries using iron tools, although few of these quarries have been identified as directly linked to particular sites. | WIKI |
| The builders of the monuments here possessed great knowledge of their local geology in order to find the sources of laterite stones. | WIKI |
| The pit was backfilled and capped with a mound overlaid with scattered laterite blocks. | WIKI |
| Within this layer, a laterite slab was also discovered, which may have been used as a sacrificial table. | WIKI |
| [24] The majority of findings from this zone were small bone fragments buried with laterite blocks, located primarily in the inner circle of the monument. | WIKI |
| The stones forming the circles were extracted from nearby laterite quarries using iron tools and skilfully shaped into almost identical pillars, either cylindrical or polygonal, on average around 2 m in height and weighing up to 7 tons. | UNESCO |