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
To make this easier, however, the three uprights were cut down, and the cromlech now to be seen is by no means so imposing as in its prehistoric state.
From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by C. A. Dawson Scott
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 P. W. Joyce
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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