Her grandfather Thomas Rogers lived at Devil's Den Cottage close to the cromlech at Clatford just west of Marlborough. |
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A cromlech is generally a circular arrangement of standing stones, sometimes with a dolmen in the middle. |
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Dolmens, menhirs and cromlech dating back to the Neolithic era can also be found on the Causses. |
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They are arranged in circle, called cromlech. |
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The earth covering and the upper part of the cromlech have been removed, leaving the passageway and lateral chambers fully exposed. |
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Some end with a semicircular cromlech, but many have since fallen or been destroyed. |
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Examples include the dolmen and menhir or the English cromlech, as can be seen in the complexes at Newgrange and Stonehenge. |
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At its source, there's a cromlech capstone. |
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A cromlech is a set of menhirs arranged in circle. |
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The cromlech was discovered in 1869 by workmen digging for road stone. |
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Nonetheless it has now replaced cromlech as the usual English term in archaeology, when the more technical and descriptive alternatives are not used. |
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