bauta
In Scandinavian archaeology, an upright stone, like a menhir, but often crowning a barrow, and sometimes 20 feet high. They are often of such late epoch that the names of persons in whose memory they seem to have been set up are engraved upon them in runes, and therefore they are hardly prehistoric monuments, but belong rather to the Viking age. It is not, however, absolutely certain that the stones themselves may not be of earlier date than their present placing, although the inscriptions are later. (Sturgis, 1900)