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

Cromlech is the Welsh equivalent for the Breton dolmen, but Breton archaeologists use cromlech to describe a circle formed by menhirs.

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans

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 Hart, H. C.

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)