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

Those who come from Llanberis will leave the highroad at a point 3½ miles from the station and about half a mile short of the cromlech.

From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.

This monument of antiquity is considered to have been the supporting part of a cromlech; but the stones being so far asunder invalidates the conjecture. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

When it is surrounded by circles of stone it takes the name cromlech.

From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)