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
Sometimes they burned the body and put the ashes in an urn, which they placed under a cromlech, or cairn, or burial mound.
From A Reading Book in Irish History by P. W. Joyce
"You've been reading Cornish novelists—the sort of people who write about over-emotionalized young men and women acting to the moon in hut-circles or dancing with their own melodramatic Psyches on the top of a cromlech."
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
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 W. Y. Evans Wentz
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