"Dolmen" Quotes from Famous Books
... swords, and treasures guarded by dragons, it was not difficult to conclude that these mysterious foot-sculptures were made by the tread of supernatural beings. Near the station of Sens, in France, there is a curious dolmen, on one of whose upright stones or props are carved two human feet. And farther north, in Brittany, upon a block of stone in the barrow or tumulus of Petit Mont at Arzon, may be seen carved an outline of the soles ... — Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan |