Dolmens

Whether all Dolmens were once covered with earth or not, is not yet known.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

They are named Dolmens, a word meaning stone tables.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Literally, ‘stones set up, ’ Dolmens and the like, which are so common throughout Arabia.

Medina Suras. The Chapter of the Table. 1909

Dolmens of simple type are not common in England, though they occur with comparative frequency in Wales, where the best known are the so-called

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

Montelius, _Dolmens en France et en Suède_ (Le Mans 1907).

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

Dolmens and corridor-tombs are numerous in many parts, especially in the north-east provinces, in Galicia, in Andalusia, and, above all, in Portugal.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

Dolmens in India are often "stones of the monkeys," and in France there are "wolves 'altars,"

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

_Dolmens_ (Celtic = "table stone"), in which a stone slab is set table-wise on three or four uprights.

Stonehenge Today and Yesterday Frank Stevens 1896

Dolmens contain no bronze or iron implements, or carvings of the same, and evidently belong to the time of the Neolithic folk.

English Villages 1892

Mr Borlase, for instance, has argued in his big book on the Dolmens that the cromlechs, and presumably the Diarmuid and Crania legend, is connected with old religious rites of an erotic nature coming down from a very primitive state of society.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892