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cromlech

[krom-lek] / ˈkrɒm lɛk /
NOUN
megalith
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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

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

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 G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

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




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