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
Neighbouring antiquities are Asselyn church near Lough Key, and a large cromlech by the road towards Lough Gara.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
In the centre of the chamber he discovered a cairn, or rather cromlech, about four feet high, which was formed of several stones arranged in a triangle, with a great flat slab on the top.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
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
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