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cromlech

Welsh term for a megalithic dolmen, consisting of a flat stone supported horizontally by two or more uprights. The structure is the exposed burial chamber of a long barrow or grave mound of the Neolithic (New Stone Age) or early Bronze Age.



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The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
Here you may find nests of the strong down partridge and peewit, but take care that the keeper isn't down upon you; and in the middle of it is an old cromlech, a huge flat stone raised on seven or eight others, and led up to by a path, with large single stones set up on each side.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
Who had placed those rocks and stones like cromlechs of prehistoric times?
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