cromlech

Example Sentences

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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

The centre is as level and almost as smooth as a billiard table, and exactly in the centre stands a cromlech.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

It was not a cromlech after all, only a pile of boulders, so they turned back again.

From A Fortunate Term by Brazil, Angela

This monument of antiquity is considered to have been the supporting part of a cromlech; but the stones being so far asunder invalidates the conjecture. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.