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
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In a field called Parc-y-Bigwrn, near Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, are the remains of a cromlech destroyed many years ago, concerning which an old man named John Jones related a superstitious tale.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
This cromlech is called, by children in that neighbourhood, ‘Castle Correg.’
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
When it is surrounded by circles of stone it takes the name cromlech.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean