Postage stamp. Great Britain. Queen Elizabeth II. Millenium Projects. 'Stone and Soil'. Raising the Stone (Strangford Stone, Killyleagh). 2nd.

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Standing over 10 metres high the Strangford Stone is the tallest megalith in the British Isles and was erected to mark the Millennium - one centimetre for each year. The stone which was quarried from Mourne granite, the mountains of its birth which are visible on the horizon, is 12 metres in length and weighs 47 tonnes. It was raised in June 1999, by one thousand young people from all over Northern Ireland.

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