This menhir(from the Breton men "stone" + hir "long")is located in Bohemia, a part of the present day Czech Republic. It is a stone that is shrouded in the mists of time and known to the locals as Baba (Old Woman). If one looks closely at the above picture of the menhir, one can almost see the face of an old woman wrapped in a cloak or shroud. Slavětín is thought to have been erected by the Boii, a Celtic tribe who also gave their name to Bohemia. In fact, the Latin name for the Czech lands "Boiohaemum" “home of the Boii”(Bohemia), is derived from the name of the Boii Celtic tribe. The stone is very deeply embedded in the ground with its undeground part about the same length as its above ground length. It's location is 0.59 mi (950m) northwest of the church in Slavětín right on an old field route very close a young basswood tree. The Baba Stone consists of coarse grained brownstone with quartz pebbles,(a ferruginous dark brown and reddish quartz based stone) and is 5'5" (1.7m)high.It's estimated mass is 2.2 tons or 2.0 tonnes. The Boii are perhaps the peoples who erected this stone however it could also have been erected by a much older culture, However the concensus remains that this is a ritual stone erected by the Boii in their original homeland of Bohemia

"I would begin by saying that the Celts were in the Bohemian lands long before they were in Britain, in England! This is not local patriotism on my part [laughs]. The absolute earliest the Celts are thought to have settled in Bohemia was in the 8th Century B.C. but for certain they were here by the 5th Century B.C. They didn't leave much of a mark because they were originally farmers."

True perhaps, with the exception of these mysterious and lonesome standing stones