Brythonic word (Breton/Cornish/Welsh) used to describe prehistoric megalithic structures.
A prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone.
1 The Celtic dolmen and cromlech , the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
2 They too raised a cromlech , and then a giddy descent followed.
3 The Welsh Memorial in Flanders Campaign is planning to build a cromlech , or flagstone monument.
4 She had walked lines to an abandoned cromlech on a low hill amid fog-draped mountains.
5 The bones and ashes find a temporary resting-place here, but are afterwards removed to a cromlech .
6 They're going over there to photograph the cromlech .
7 The weather, and perhaps farmers, have taken away the mound, and laid bare the cromlech ; but look!
8 Stanton Drew, in Somersetshire, has a cromlech , and there are several in Scotland, the Channel Islands, and Brittany.
9 Some sacrilegious persons transported a cromlech bodily from the Channel Islands, and set it up at Park Place, Henley-on-Thames.
10 It might have been a titanic cromlech planted there in mid-ocean by hands accustomed to proportion their labours to the great deep.
11 At the northern door of this gallery are, a painting of Stonehenge, and one of the cromlech at Plâs Newydd, in Anglesea.
12 He remembered Shoreham sitting upon the cromlech above singing the legend of the gui-l'annee-andShoreham was lying now a hundred fathoms deep.
13 Then, too, they would always stop beside a certain landmark, a great stone, because it looked something like the cromlech at Locneuven.
14 Here we saw a flat stone supposed to have been the quoin of a fallen cromlech , and to have been used for sacrificial purposes.
15 And again beyond the cromlech was a hut, shaped like a beehive of straw, built of many stones most wonderfully, both walls and roof.
16 The cromlech at Avebury covers a larger area than that of Stonehenge, the circle being about 1,300 feet in diameter.
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