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 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.
"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 MacKenzie, Compton
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
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