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
The cromlech itself is very imposing, with massive side supports, six or seven feet high, and a mighty covering stone, flat on the under side.
From The Charm of Ireland by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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
Ascending from just above the cromlech stone in Llanberis Pass, the buttress immediately above can be climbed on the right or south-west side.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by H. C. Hart
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