cromlech

• It was a pre-historic cromlech--three gigantic stones reared in the form of a table by those old inhabitants of our island whose customs and modes of worship are lost in the mists of antiquity. —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
• And a black man arose from beneath the cromlech, mounted upon a bony horse, and both he and his horse were clad in huge rusty armour. —  The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3)
• Sometimes the cromlech is double, and occasionally there is a hole in one of the stones, the significance of which is unknown, unless it may have been for the ingress and egress of souls. —  Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times
• Almost every cromlech, wherever found, was once, I believe, the central chamber of just such a long barrow: but in some instances wind and rain have beaten down and washed away the surrounding earth (and then we call it a 'Druidical monument'), while in others the mound still encloses its original deposit (and then we call it merely a prehistoric tumulus). —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• A large cromlech, still in that neighbourhood, probably marks the graves of the heroes slain in that engagement. —  An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

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