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 a field called Parc-y-Bigwrn, near Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, are the remains of a cromlech destroyed many years ago, concerning which an old man named John Jones related a superstitious tale.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt

Three miles westward is Morvah with the interesting Ch�n Castle above it, of rude stone forming three concentric rings, and not far off is Ch�n cromlech.

From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Away up among them is another huge quoit or cromlech, probably marking the burial-place of some chieftain long before Arthur's date.

From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)