Uushgiin Uver Deer Stones

Bronze Age standing stones engraved with stylised deer, west of Mörön

About twenty kilometres west of Mörön, a cluster of twelve to fourteen standing stones rises out of the grassland — carved between roughly 1500 and 700 BC with stylised flying deer, sun discs, belts and weapons. The Bronze Age people who set them up are presumed to have used the site for ritual rather than burial; the stones have no graves beneath them. It is one of the largest and best-preserved deer-stone sites in the country.

Hire a driver in Mörön (an hour each way on a rough track). No signage, no fee, no other visitors most days.

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A story
Carved between 1500 and 700 BC by the people who first domesticated horses on the Mongolian steppe. The stylised deer with their backswept antlers are thought to represent the journey of the soul into the sky. About 14 stones still stand on the original site, one of the densest concentrations in Mongolia.

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