Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
5. single built works (built environment)
6. [single built works by specific type]
7. [single built works by function]

Narrower term/s

• [monuments by form][+]
  • trinity columns
  • markers (monuments) [+]
    • cippi
    • landmarks [+]
      • National Historic Landmarks
    • metae
    • cross monuments [+]
      • market crosses
      • preaching crosses
      • wayside crosses
    • boundary posts
    • distance markers [+]
      • milestones [+]
  • megalithic monuments [+]
    • megalithic chamber tombs [NP] [+]
      • gallery graves
      • passage graves
    • menhirs [+]
      • statue menhirs
    • cromlechs
    • trilithons
    • henges
    • ship-settings
    • rune stones
    • taulas
  • memorial arches [+]
    • triumphal arches (memorial arches)
  • memorial columns [+]
    • zoophoric columns
    • triumphal columns [+]
      • rostral columns
  • stelae [+]
    • bei (stelae)
    • khachkars
  • effigy mounds (monuments)
  • monumental pillars [+]
    • lats (pillars)
    • obelisks (monumental pillars)
    • huábiǎo
    • edict pillars
  • Marian columns
  • plague columns
  • baetyls
  • talayots
  • stacked rocks (structures) [+]
    • dolmens [NP]
    • inuksuit
• [monuments by function][+]
  • trinity columns [NP]
  • sepulchral monuments [NP] [+]
    • lanterns of the dead
    • tombstones (sepulchral monuments) [+]
      • headstones (tombstones)
      • footstones (tombstones)
    • cenotaphs
    • tomb slabs
    • cineraria (sepulchral monuments)
    • funerary stelea
    • gedachteniskruisjes
    • grave altars
    • grave crosses
    • grave posts
    • grave markers
    • grave pillars
    • weepers (sculptures)
    • sarcophagus altars
  • choragic monuments
  • historic monuments
  • soldiers' monuments
  • national monuments
  • trophies (war monuments)
  • Marian columns [NP]
  • plague columns [NP]
  • guild monuments

Anotations

Scope note:

Structures or edifices of importance or historical interest, typically erected in memory of the dead or of an important event.