Preferred label
Monuments & memorials
Alternative label
Memorials
Broader term
Facilities
Narrower terms
Artificial rock formations
Boundary markers
Memorial arches
Milestones
Obelisks
Sphinxes
Stelae
Related terms
Cairns
Historic sites
Historical markers
Pagodas
Plaques
Sculpture
Spontaneous shrines
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Scope note
Structures erected to commemorate persons, events, or causes. Search also under the subdivision --COMMEMORATION used with ethnic, racial, and regional groups, and with classes of persons (Appendix A), and with corporate bodies and named events (Appendix D). Search also under the subdivision --MONUMENTS used with names of persons (Appendix B) and with names of wars (Appendix C).
Change note
Formerly TGMI term.