. The living stones of Melaka and even those scuptured into grave stone such as the one at Pengkalan Kempas near Port Dickson here N2 27.020 E102 00.886 :
Yesterday while trying to escape Melaka town jam, I detoured from AMJ via Melaka Pindah>Durian Tunggal bypass.
Closer to Melaka Pindah village ctr, I saw the same familiar stones that I saw in pengkalan kempas in NS.
Yes it's almost the same one I saw in Pengkalan Kempas..
While googling on these stones, I found this interesting article:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411857
While passing through the village, I used to notice and wonder at a cluster of about 20 standing stones located on an earthen mound several meters from the road. It was when covering a story as a journalist in 1997 that I learned from local villagers that the stones were called Batu Hidup (Living Stones) or Batu Bercahaya (Glittering Stones). They were in fact megaliths or menhirs.
The roughly hewn granite stones are without any markings or engravings and are found in columns or rows of twos’ on earthen mounds. They stand upright between two feet and seven feet in height and slightly bent or curved in their upper part while tapered at the top. All have an East to West orientation. Some 500-odd sites are said to exist in a 100 kilometer square radius covering the borders of the states of Melaka and Negeri Sembilan.
One view is that the megaliths were erected by the early Minangkabau settlers who migrated from Sumatra, Indonesia to the Malaysian Peninsula in the early 16th Century. The early Muslim settlers assumed the stones were grave markers and hence buried their dead next to the sites. (Incidentally Muslim graves are composed of two stones markers about a foot in height that face about 12º East to West). It is common to find the megaliths situated in or nearby Muslim cemeteries.
Besides this presumption, the megaliths also attracted superstitious practices that eventually saw them turned into objects of pagan worship by the local population. Till this very day, one can still find traces of ritualistic offerings left behind at the sites.
Well, I probably be back soon to track more of these megalith stones surrounding Taboh naning area near Alor Gajah
Tuah very old liao..masih MCE 
