cromlech

Example Sentences

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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

Away up among them is another huge quoit or cromlech, probably marking the burial-place of some chieftain long before Arthur's date.

From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)

If it is a boulder it is a very extraordinary one, and if it is a cromlech it is a more extraordinary one still.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

The ancient Irish sometimes buried as we do now, placing the body in the grave, over which they often raised a cairn or a cromlech.

From A Reading Book in Irish History by Joyce, P. W.