cromlech

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The cromlech built in Langemark, Belgium is marking the 100th anniversary of the war's outbreak.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2014

The charcoal sample that was thus dated came from an excavated pit at Stonehenge, the great "megalithic cromlech" on England's Salisbury Plain that has mystified scientists since Roman times.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the centre of the clearing was a cromlech with a rather short, oval table upheld by two supports of rock, which were almost square.

From The Secret of Sarek by Leblanc, Maurice

When it is surrounded by circles of stone it takes the name cromlech.

From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)

Here he fought with Leinster— Last of all his frays— On the Hill of Cucorb's Fate High his cromlech raise.

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)