How To Use Cromlech In A Sentence
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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).
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What you can see to the left of the cromlech is the fence, but foreshortened.
Army Rumour Service
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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
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Christ, but before history -- the stone circles, the cairns and the cromlechs, the kistvaen and the barrows!
Set in Silver
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444 A cromlech is a prehistoric arrangement of stones, a flat stone resting on three or more stones, often associated with a tomb.
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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
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Some English writers apply the term cromlech to such a structure, quite incorrectly.
Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
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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]
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Everywhere you go in Ireland there are standing stones, circles, cromlechs and tumuli.
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The bones found in the cromlechs are those of a large and dolichocephalous race.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world
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When these stones form an ellipse, and have no head-covering, one must say: There is a "cromlech"; when one perceives a stone laid horizontally upon two upright stones, one is confronted by a "lichaven" or a "trilithe.
Over Strand and Field
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They were the so called Megalithic People, the builders of dolmens, cromlechs and other monuments over or to their dead.
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Everywhere you go in Ireland there are standing stones, circles, cromlechs and tumuli; some of huge size.
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Her grandfather Thomas Rogers lived at Devil's Den Cottage close to the cromlech at Clatford just west of Marlborough.
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On firmer ground is coracle, which occurs in Salesbury's Dictionary in English and Welsh (1547) as the English equivalent of kwrwgyl ` round boat, 'and the archaeological term cromlech, which is used in Owen's Pembrokeshire
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
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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.
A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex
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The stones were not dolmens or cromlechs.
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In death, he was buried with his kin in long mounds of earth called barrows, in chambered cairns and cromlechs or dolmens.
Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times
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They were the so called Megalithic People, the builders of dolmens, cromlechs and other monuments over or to their dead.
