cromlechs

Many of the so-called cromlechs of England are not true dolmens, but the remains of tombs of more complicated types.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

These are now usually called cromlechs, in accordance with the term used by French antiquaries, though formerly this name was applied in England to the dolmens, or chambered structures, of which we shall speak presently.

English Villages 1892

Many of the Druidical remains still exist, the most remarkable of which are called cromlechs -- flat stones resting upon others, probably serving as altars.

A Yacht Voyage Round England William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Druids used for worship; or that our cromlechs were their sacrificial altars.

Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

National Monuments, such as cromlechs and pillar stones, &c., which supplied the place of the brazen tablets of Roman history, the

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

Such chambers, denuded of the covering mound, or over which no covering mound has been raised, are popularly known in England as "cromlechs" and in France as "dolmens" (see

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

Some countryman told me that they slept under the cromlechs.444 For that reason I called my poem ‘song sung by the people of Faery over Diarmuid and Grania in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech’.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

Who had placed those rocks and stones like cromlechs of prehistoric times?

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the

Ulysses 2003

Like the cromlechs, she thought, that stood upon the moors, symbols of strange rites and the spelling of the runes.

A Girl Possessed Winspear, Violet 1980