Brythonic word (Breton/Cornish/Welsh) used to describe prehistoric megalithic structures.
A prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone.
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We find the same association of different materials in the Rocher dolmen.
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I've been meaning to tell you the dolmen and the warehouse were destroyed.
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The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
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The squat little fellow studied the base of the dolmen for a time.
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The two shadowed their employer, skulking from towering dolmen to dolmen.
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Rare prehistoric rock art, believed to be at least 4,000 years old, has been discovered on a portal tomb in north Co Sligo.
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Specifically, a number of perfectly preserved portal tombs or dolmens are located in this area.
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They break into four basic classes: court tombs, portal tombs, passage tombs and wedge tombs.
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It links to the Brennanstown Portal Tomb dating from 2,500-2,000 BC.
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The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
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They too raised a cromlech, and then a giddy descent followed.
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The Welsh Memorial in Flanders Campaign is planning to build a cromlech, or flagstone monument.
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She had walked lines to an abandoned cromlech on a low hill amid fog-draped mountains.
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The bones and ashes find a temporary resting-place here, but are afterwards removed to a cromlech.
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They're going over there to photograph the cromlech.
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The weather, and perhaps farmers, have taken away the mound, and laid bare the cromlech; but look!
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Stanton Drew, in Somersetshire, has a cromlech, and there are several in Scotland, the Channel Islands, and Brittany.
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Some sacrilegious persons transported a cromlech bodily from the Channel Islands, and set it up at Park Place, Henley-on-Thames.
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It might have been a titanic cromlech planted there in mid-ocean by hands accustomed to proportion their labours to the great deep.
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At the northern door of this gallery are, a painting of Stonehenge, and one of the cromlech at Plâs Newydd, in Anglesea.
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He remembered Shoreham sitting upon the cromlech above singing the legend of the gui-l'annee-andShoreham was lying now a hundred fathoms deep.
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Then, too, they would always stop beside a certain landmark, a great stone, because it looked something like the cromlech at Locneuven.
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Here we saw a flat stone supposed to have been the quoin of a fallen cromlech, and to have been used for sacrificial purposes.
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And again beyond the cromlech was a hut, shaped like a beehive of straw, built of many stones most wonderfully, both walls and roof.
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The cromlech at Avebury covers a larger area than that of Stonehenge, the circle being about 1,300 feet in diameter.