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• A dolmen (also known as cromlech (Welsh), anta, Hünengrab, Hunebed, Goindol, quoit, and portal dolmen) is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone (table). Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• What you can see to the left of the cromlech is the fence, but foreshortened. Army Rumour Service
• Dr. Owain Pughe considered the word "cromlech" (_crwm-llech_, an inclined or flat stone,) to be merely a popular name, having no reference to the original purpose of the structure. Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850
• Christ, but before history -- the stone circles, the cairns and the cromlechs, the kistvaen and the barrows! Set in Silver
• 444 A cromlech is a prehistoric arrangement of stones, a flat stone resting on three or more stones, often associated with a tomb. Later Articles and Reviews
• Auray is a good central point for visiting the Celtic remains: — menhirs, dolmens, cromlechs, all of which are as plentiful here as are calvaries, shrines, and churches in Léon. Brittany & Its Byways
• Some English writers apply the term cromlech to such a structure, quite incorrectly. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
• The "cromlech," i.e. a huge flattish stone resting on three stones set upright, of which we have so many examples in Great Britain, is not represented in Japan excepting where a group of dolmens has been long used as a quarry for building stones. Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]
• Everywhere you go in Ireland there are standing stones, circles, cromlechs and tumuli.
• The bones found in the cromlechs are those of a large and dolichocephalous race. Atlantis : the antediluvian world