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

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

From A Fortunate Term by Brazil, Angela

"You've been reading Cornish novelists—the sort of people who write about over-emotionalized young men and women acting to the moon in hut-circles or dancing with their own melodramatic Psyches on the top of a cromlech."

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

Ascending from just above the cromlech stone in Llanberis Pass, the buttress immediately above can be climbed on the right or south-west side.

From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.