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Cromlech

noun
(pl. cromlechs)
1.
A prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone.  Synonyms: dolmen, portal tomb.





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"Cromlech" Quotes from Famous Books



... according to Dr. Johnson, "taught the morality of a profligate, and the manners of a dancing master," and a landscape by Wilson. At the northern door of this gallery are, a painting of Stonehenge, and one of the cromlech at Plas ...
— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits • W. Blanchard Jerrold
... my dominions." "I was intreated so to do; and is there any way by which I can obtain thy friendship?" "There is," she replied. "Go thou forward unto yonder mountain, and there thou wilt find a grove; and in the grove there is a cromlech, do thou there challenge a man three times to fight, and thou shalt ...
— The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3) • Owen M. Edwards


Words linked to "Cromlech" :   megalith, megalithic structure


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