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He claims the plans for the extension come close to possible site of a boulder circle and dolmen.
One of the special features of the site is the rockery to the rear built around a granite dolmen and a variety of mature trees.
A cromlech is generally a circular arrangement of standing stones, sometimes with a dolmen in the middle.
He had by-passed a stone-age dolmen on his ascent and skirted the mound of a ring-fort.
The field site contains over 45 stone circles, passage graves, standing stones and dolmen tombs and has been the focus of excavations for more than twenty years.
Along the path there is a well, which symbolises the beginning of life, while further along is a dolmen, a pre-Christian tomb, representing the end of life.
At the north end is a deep forecourt between two rounded horns, and in the back of the forecourt is an H-shaped setting of stones, perhaps the remains of a portal dolmen.
Walk past the dolmen and the menhir of Penhap, and continue up to the road.
It has a reflecting pool and a massive granite dolmen, behind which a rose garden sprawls.
The dolmen of Penhap belongs to the type gallery-shaped with an oblong chamber plus a corridor.
The square pillars inside the dolmen are what support the vault, although only one really does.
The best example of this type of burial is the dolmen complex in neighbouring Antequera.
This particular dolmen is the only one that has anthropomorphic engravings on it on the first one on the left as you enter.
This menhir could be an ancient paving stone coming from a dolmen.
The English words dolmen and menhir have been borrowed from French, which took them from Breton.
This is the second instance when a dolmen with petrographs has been found in Tamil Nadu, India.
It was moved there in 1778 when the dolmen it was associated with was destroyed.
Collective burials in dolmen structures in Ibiza could be contrasted against the individual burials in Mallorca.
Examples include the dolmen and menhir or the English cromlech, as can be seen in the complexes at Newgrange and Stonehenge.
Korean dolmens exhibit a morphology distinct from the Atlantic European dolmen.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They it was who, ages ago, raised the huge stones of the menhir and dolmen, and hid beneath them untold hoards of treasure.
The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
We do at least know that the dolmen was raised above a burial, in the one instance of Zennor above two.
As the dolmen is a crude copy of the serdab it can be claimed as one of the ultimate results of the practice of mummification.
There the old dolmen, beneath which the grey wolf that ate the two children of Tornic had its lair.
There is a rude circle of menhirs at the site, with a trilithon or dolmen on one side.
From words that escaped him while he was sleeping under the Fairies' dolmen.
The moon-worshipper did no worse when he led the chosen victim to the dolmen.
Contemporary with this later form of dolmen were several other types of tomb.
Within the dolmen, which was so revered that the neighbours swore their chief oath by it, were kept certain sacred scriptures.
The dolmen, or table of rock, is formed of a long stone laid flat over other stones set in the ground.
The church is laid out like a dolmen, and the towers are the menhirs.
For this he needs an outlet issuing near the Fairies' dolmen.
And on each of these mountains we found groups of dolmen still standing.
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