cromlech

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The cromlech built in Langemark, Belgium is marking the 100th anniversary of the war's outbreak.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2014

The charcoal sample that was thus dated came from an excavated pit at Stonehenge, the great "megalithic cromlech" on England's Salisbury Plain that has mystified scientists since Roman times.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like Jersey and the neighbouring part of France, Guernsey retains considerable traces of early habitation in cromlechs and menhirs, of which the most notable is the cromlech in the north at L’Ancresse.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

This is a frequent phenomenon supposed by the Welsh peasantry to accompany the attempt to move a cromlech.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt

Dolmen, dol′men, n. a stone table: the French name for a cromlech, a prehistoric structure of two or more erect unhewn stones, supporting a large flattish stone.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various