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Lanyon Quoit is believed to be the burial chamber of a long mound. In megalithic times, when the dolmen was built, it would have been covered with earth, which has been steadily worn away over millennia. Before 1815, when it collapsed during a storm and was rebuilt, it was said that a man on horseback could pass underneath the capstone.
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On the bare limestone of the Burren in County Clare, Ireland, early people erected Poulnabrone dolmen. A megalithic tomb, it consists of one flat stone laid across uprights. It was originally buried under an earthen mound but laid bare by erosion.
Prehistoric megalith in the form of a chamber built of three or more large upright stone slabs, capped by a horizontal flat stone. Dolmens are the burial chambers of Neolithic (New Stone Age) chambered tombs and passage graves, revealed by the removal of the covering burial mound. They are found in Europe and Africa, and occasionally in Asia as far east as Japan.
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