| 单词 | cromlech |
| 例句 | Others, the so-called cromlechs, form the setting of religious observances. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The cromlech built in Langemark, Belgium, marked the 100th anniversary of the war's outbreak and followed years of campaigning by those who wanted a permanent dedication to the fallen. Service to end War commemorations 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z The cromlech built in Langemark, Belgium is marking the 100th anniversary of the war's outbreak. Wales' World War One fallen honoured 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z If it is a boulder it is a very extraordinary one, and if it is a cromlech it is a more extraordinary one still. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Away up among them is another huge quoit or cromlech, probably marking the burial-place of some chieftain long before Arthur's date. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z Like Jersey and the neighbouring part of France, Guernsey retains considerable traces of early habitation in cromlechs and menhirs, of which the most notable is the cromlech in the north at L’Ancresse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z In autumn a memorial garden will be created around the stone cromlech to complete what is a lasting reminder of the sacrifice made by the people of Wales who fought in the First World War. Service to end War commemorations 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z This race it was which erected the so-called cromlechs, stone circles, and tall upright stones. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z In no other known spot of either these islands or France are so many cromlechs to be seen in so small a space, and very few seem to know anything about it. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z On the plain where it was fought, there are still great numbers of mounds, cromlechs, and other sepulchral monuments. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z On Cefn Bryn, almost in the centre of the peninsula, is a cromlech with a large capstone known as Arthur’s Stone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z From the Irish of the Book of Leinster Raise the cromlech high! A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z The Wharf, St Ives Zennor has a curious little church with carved bench ends, on one of which is represented a mermaid, and Zennor "quoit" is thought to be the largest cromlech in England. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z Some of them are baby cromlechs, the top stones of which are not much more than a hundredweight. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Dolmen, dol′men, n. a stone table: the French name for a cromlech, a prehistoric structure of two or more erect unhewn stones, supporting a large flattish stone. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Those who come from Llanberis will leave the highroad at a point 3½ miles from the station and about half a mile short of the cromlech. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z At Stonehenge, in England, is a large cromlech arranged in two circles and two ovals. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Raths or encampments are numerous and several cromlechs are to be seen in good preservation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Many of the cromlechs have been torn down, and some of them have been actually made to serve as road walls and have been built over. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z In Zennor parish is one of the finest cromlechs in Cornwall, a huge slab of unwrought stone like a table, poised on the points of standing upright blocks as rude as the mass they sustain. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Ascending from just above the cromlech stone in Llanberis Pass, the buttress immediately above can be climbed on the right or south-west side. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z This cromlech is surrounded by a trench and an earthen embankment. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z This monument of antiquity is considered to have been the supporting part of a cromlech; but the stones being so far asunder invalidates the conjecture. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z The centre is as level and almost as smooth as a billiard table, and exactly in the centre stands a cromlech. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z It was not a cromlech after all, only a pile of boulders, so they turned back again. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z There are really more than 366 of the cromlechs, though nobody knows the exact number; and they are the most venerable monuments reared by man in Ireland. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z In Brittany, malignant dwarfs and night-elves still haunt the deserted cromlech, and have power at certain times, to wreak their malice on the belated traveller. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z The latter opinion appears to me best supported; nor can I look on a cromlech without adverting to those horrid rites wherein human victims were immolated by Druid-craft to excite the terrors of superstition. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z When it is surrounded by circles of stone it takes the name cromlech. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z In the centre of the clearing was a cromlech with a rather short, oval table upheld by two supports of rock, which were almost square. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z There are two most impressive cromlechs at Carrowmore, quite close together, and my pictures of them are opposite the next page. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Certain monuments, which are called, according to their form, menhirs, dolmens or cromlechs. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Cromlech is the Welsh equivalent for the Breton dolmen, but Breton archaeologists use cromlech to describe a circle formed by menhirs. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Several of the French cromlechs are large enough to be converted into chapels, while one at Copenhagen, called the "Chamber of Giants," will allow of twenty people walking about in it. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z Those who were dancing never swerved from the perfect circle; but some were clambering over the old cromlech, and others chasing each other with surprising swiftness and the greatest glee. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z The cromlech itself is very imposing, with massive side supports, six or seven feet high, and a mighty covering stone, flat on the under side. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Then he came on the great cromlech underneath. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much—indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry To make this easier, however, the three uprights were cut down, and the cromlech now to be seen is by no means so imposing as in its prehistoric state. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z Some of them, as the cromlechs and logans, they no doubt employed in their mystic rites, as being symbols of the dimly descried Power they worshipped. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z "Can you tell me how to get to the cromlechs?" The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The only arch�ological remains are cromlechs, which tell of a Druidical worship, and the round towers, belonging to a much later period, whose purpose is only conjectured. A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland In the centre of the chamber he discovered a cairn, or rather cromlech, about four feet high, which was formed of several stones arranged in a triangle, with a great flat slab on the top. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II The ancient Irish sometimes buried as we do now, placing the body in the grave, over which they often raised a cairn or a cromlech. A Reading Book in Irish History This fascinating superstition is preserved in numberless Welsh legends relating to hidden treasures, buried under cromlechs or rocky mounds, or in caverns. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z N.E. of the town is one of the finest cromlechs in Ireland, and 3 m. to the west is the notable church, of Norman and pre-Norman date, of Killeshin in Queen’s county. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Nobody had arrived before us; so we sat down on the cromlech, and began to sing what you may call a duet—that is, a stave for two voices. Seven Frozen Sailors The mass fell straight, and without breaking; resting in its bed like a Druid cromlech precipitated in one piece. Toilers of the Sea Sometimes they burned the body and put the ashes in an urn, which they placed under a cromlech, or cairn, or burial mound. A Reading Book in Irish History Venerable in their hoary antiquity stand those monuments of a long-vanished humanity, the cromlechs which are so numerous in Wales, sharing with the logan and the inscribed stone the peasant’s superstitious interest. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z The night she passes under an old cromlech. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Some of those Peruvian cromlechs consist of four great slabs of slate, each about five feet high, four or five in width, and more than an inch thick. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West Instead of temples—rock-altars, cromlechs, and other rustic structures were used among the Celtic nations by the Druids, who were at the same time priests, magicians, and medicine-men. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition They are often found in graves, especially under cairns and cromlechs: and they nearly always contain ashes and bits of burnt bones. A Reading Book in Irish History There is a remarkable cromlech near the hamlet of St. Nicholas, Glamorganshire, on the estate of the family whose house has the honour of being haunted by the ghost of an admiral. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z By far the finest cromlech is the "Spinster's Rock" at Drewsteignton, a three-pillared cromlech which may well be compared with those of Cornwall. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" This whole peninsula is filled with hut-villages, cromlechs, and other prehistoric remains of its ancient people, but we have not the space to devote to their description, however agreeable it might be. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The megalithic remains, the dolmens, menhirs, cromlechs and stone circles are said to resemble more closely those of northern Africa than the larger remains of Brittany and of the British Isles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Several remains of antiquity exist in the neighbourhood, among them a cromlech called Kit's Coty House, about a mile north-east from the village. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" That the fairies protect the cromlechs with special care, as they also do the logans and others, is a belief the Welsh peasant shares with the superstitious in many lands. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Almost all the primæval stone circles and cromlechs which existed in the middle and southern districts of Scotland have been cast down and removed. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 Several hilltops in the neighborhood contain fortifications, and are marked by the old tombs known as cromlechs and Druids' altars. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel He waited, and gradually traced the sound to a huge cromlech on the hill. Where Deep Seas Moan Of such cyclopean style, though it is a small specimen, is the Chûn cromlech, standing near. The Cornwall Coast This cromlech is called, by children in that neighbourhood, ‘Castle Correg.’ British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z According to some Indian observers, stone erections, like our so-called Druidical circles, cromlechs, etc., are common in the East. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 Spriggans, you must know, are the Small People who live in rocks and stones, and cromlechs, the most mischievous, thievish little creatures that ever lived, and woe betide anyone who meddles with their dwelling-places. Cornwall's Wonderland This cromlech stands in Kent, on the brow of a hill about a mile and a half from Aylesford, to the right of the great road from Rochester to Maidstone. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 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 The korreds are supposed to live in the cromlechs, of which they are believed to have been the builders. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z In excavating, some years ago, a large barrow in the Phœnix Park at Dublin, two entire skeletons were discovered within the chamber of the stone cromlech which formed the centre of the sepulchral mound. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 It was a good hour's walk from the cromlechs to Birk Water, the lake where they intended to pick the rushes. A harum-scarum schoolgirl The cromlechs are no doubt the most characteristic and most striking among the monuments of Cornwall. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Auray is a good central point for visiting the Celtic remains:—menhirs, dolmens, cromlechs, all of which are as plentiful here as are calvaries, shrines, and churches in Léon. Brittany & Its Byways Like beliefs attach to cromlechs in the Haute Auvergne, and other parts of France. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Hurra! for the hills o' the cromlech and cairn, Where blossoms the thistle by hillocks o' fern; There Freedom in triumph an altar has made For holiest rites in the land o' the plaid. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century And then appeared, in succession to the right and left, several of the rude erections, resembling the Celtic cromlechs, or cist-vaens, above alluded to, from Irby and Mangles. Byeways in Palestine The same argument applies to the cromlechs and stone avenues of Carnac, in Brittany. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Huge blocks of granite are scattered about in every direction, jutting out from among the furze—menhirs, cromlechs, and dolmens—a perfect wilderness of Celtic remains. Brittany & Its Byways A cromlech at Pirols, said to have been built by a fée, is composed of seven massive stones, the largest being twelve feet long by eight and a half feet wide. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Comparison of the Nanga with the cromlechs and other megalithic monuments of Europe. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia 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 French antiquarians, taking dol or tôl as a corruption of tabula, use dolman in the sense of table-stones, and as synonymous with cromlech, while they frequently use cromlech in the sense of stone circles. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities But the tree was alive, and because of its life the feeling was perhaps stronger than in the case of a granite cross or cromlech or other memorial of antiquity. Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn This is a frequent phenomenon supposed by the Welsh peasantry to accompany the attempt to move a cromlech. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z When the initiations were over, on May-Eve, fires were kindled on all the cairns and cromlechs in the island, which burned all night to introduce the sports of May-day. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Cloyne is only four miles' drive "on the long car" through a rich countryside, and on the way may be seen a Druidical cromlech, at Castlemartyr, in a very fair state of preservation. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway There are many antiquarians who affect to despise the rude architecture of the Celts, nay, who would think the name of architecture disgraced if applied to cromlechs and bee-hive huts. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities It builds in their cromlechs, and its song remembers them. News from the Duchy The immediately exciting cause of the digging was a dream in which the dreamer was told that there was a pot of treasure buried within the cromlech’s precincts. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z The holed cromlechs of the later Stone Age were probably designed for the egress and ingress of souls. Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times The oldest of all religious monuments of which we have any existing trace are cromlechs, found mostly in waste, uncultivated places. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Thus, if we do not find in countries exclusively inhabited by Romans or Saxons anything like a cromlech, surely we have a right to look upon these strange structures as remnants of Celtic times. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Some English writers apply the term cromlech to such a structure, quite incorrectly. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders Sometimes the treasure is in the ground, under a cromlech or a carn; he digs, and the thunder shakes the air, the lightnings flash, torrents descend, and he is frustrated in his search. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z 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 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 It makes no difference if it can be shown that below these cromlechs coins have occasionally been found of the Roman Emperors. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 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 Examples are still to be seen of megalithic structures, barrows, cromlechs, camps, earthen or walled castles, hut-circles, and other remains of the prehistoric inhabitants of these islands. Vanishing England He passed, therefore, where the unique Devonian cromlech stands hard by Bradmere pool. Children of the Mist Subsequent researches have shown that acorns and hazel-nuts, teeth of horses and hogs, also pottery and instruments of the same character as those found in the cromlechs, exist among the Vazon peat deposits. The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century Though many of these cromlechs have been destroyed, Cornwall still possesses some fine specimens of these ancient stone tripods. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities We have already noticed the cromlechs which form part of the alignements of Brittany. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders Some sacrilegious persons transported a cromlech from the Channel Islands, and set it up at Park Place, Henley-on-Thames. Vanishing England I arrived yesterday and called on you this morning, only to find you were at Drewsteignton; so I came to verify some figures at the cromlech, hoping we might meet the sooner.” Children of the Mist Historic memories, forgotten stories, fragments of tradition, the cromlech on the mountain and the fossil in the bog supplied him substance and spirit wherewith to mould and animate nationality. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 There are, however, cromlechs resting on four or more stones, these stones forming a kind of chamber, or a kist-vaen, which is supposed to have served originally as a sepulchre. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities They consist of thirteen dolmens, forty-one menhirs, two alignements, and a cromlech. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders There is a well-known cromlech at Stanton Drew, in Somerset, and there are several in Scotland, the Channel Islands, and Brittany. Vanishing England Here we saw a flat stone supposed to have been the quoin of a fallen cromlech, and to have been used for sacrificial purposes. From John O'Groats to Land's End They too raised a cromlech, and then a giddy descent followed. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Roman and Saxon hands may have helped to erect some of the cromlechs which are still to be seen in Cornwall, but the original idea of such monuments, and hence their name, is purely Celtic. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities The cromlech is circular and stands on Cape Corse. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders At the northern door of this gallery are, a painting of Stonehenge, and one of the cromlech at Plâs Newydd, in Anglesea. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits The island was the seat of the Druids, of whom 28 cromlechs remain, on uplands overlooking the sea, e.g. at Plâs Newydd. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 And again beyond the cromlech was a hut, shaped like a beehive of straw, built of many stones most wonderfully, both walls and roof. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex These cromlechs, though very surprising when seen for the first time, represent in reality one of the simplest achievements of primitive architecture. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities "They are the remains of a cromlech or altar whereon they offered their sons and daughters unto devils, and shed innocent blood, wherefore the Lord brought the Romans upon them." Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune Associated words: ultimo, proximo, instant. monthly, a. mensal, menstrual. monument, n. tombstone, memorial; cenotaph; dolmen, cromlech. Putnam's Word Book Wherever they went, the members of the race buried their dead in rude stone cairns or cromlechs, the dolmens of the French antiquarians. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations And even as I spoke, from within the stone walls of the cromlech came the voice that I longed to hear again, weak, indeed, but yet that of Owen: "Oswald, Oswald!" A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex It is higher, therefore, than the Cornish cromlechs, but in other respects it is a true specimen of that class of Celtic monuments. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities They, however, worship at these cromlechs from time to time, and are associated with them in another interesting manner. A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients Tombs, and urns, and human bones, are constantly discovered; yet neither Druidic temples, nor pillars of stone, nor cromlechs or Celtic remains of any description exist, at least, at present, in the neighborhood of Bayeux. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 In the park is a knoll crowned by three huge stones, which were once a cromlech, and are supposed to mark a place of sepulture. Somerset The old woman still sat on the cromlech, and when she saw me her voice rose afresh with more hard words, which I would not notice. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex Returning to Cornwall, we find there, besides the cromlechs, pillars, holed stones, and stone circles, all of which may be classed as public monuments. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities A wordless history is written there, in giant circles of stone and cromlechs of piled blocks, so old that in a land of most venerable tradition their very legend has vanished away. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Not far away in Clatford Bottom is the "Devil's Den," a cromlech upon the remains of a long barrow; the upper slab measures nine feet by eight. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter All these relics, to say nothing of the cromlechs in Malabar, bear a silent and solemn testimony of some by-gone people, whose religious and civil customs had extended wide over the earth. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Tumuli are also numerous, but only a few menhirs and traces of cromlechs are to be seen. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Many would tell you Grania slept under the cromlechs, but I don't believe that, and she a king's daughter. The Kiltartan History Book Close under us lies Carrowmore, with its labyrinth of cromlechs and stone circles, a very city of dead years. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque When we had completed the circle of the cromlechs, we came suddenly upon him. The Brother of Daphne The large number of upright columns, circles of stone, cromlechs and cairns still extant in the British Isles, bears testimony to the peculiar character of the religious worship which once prevailed in them. The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion Then, too, they would always stop beside a certain landmark, a great stone, because it looked something like the cromlech at Locneuven. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant The cromlechs, cranogs, mounds, and the like, though some of them indicate the work of weaker tribes pressed upon by stronger, show, as a rule, the same upward tendency. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom There are cromlechs set in the midst of titanic circles of stone, with lesser boulders guarding the cromlechs closer at hand. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Some exhorted one another to observe some feature of the cromlechs which was only visible from some point of vantage on the side other to that on which we stood. The Brother of Daphne Who had placed those rocks and stones like cromlechs of prehistoric times? Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 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 Broken are the circles and the cromlechs of the ancient Druids; fallen upon the summits of the hills, and covered with the centuries' moss are the sacred cairns. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest There is a kindred wildness and mystery in the cromlech and the lonely hills. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque No country in Europe is without its cromlechs and dolmens, huge earthen tumuli, great flagged sepulchres, and enclosures of tall pillar-stones. Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. The way dipped presently, crossed a rivulet and mounted again past the famous cromlech of Lanyon. Lying Prophets The cromlech at Avebury covers a larger area than that of Stonehenge, the circle being about 1,300 feet in diameter. English Villages Mr. Outwood, whose thoughts were occupied with apses and plinths, not to mention cromlechs, at the time, thanked the sergeant with absent-minded politeness and passed on. Mike Southward again of this, where the town of Lough Rea takes its name from the Gray Lake, stands a high hill crowned by a cromlech, with an encircling earthwork. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Such are the early Irish tales that cling around the mounds and cromlechs as that by which they are sustained, which was originally their source, and sustained them afterwards in a strong enduring life. Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. It might have been a titanic cromlech planted there in mid-ocean by hands accustomed to proportion their labours to the great deep. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction Stanton Drew, in Somersetshire, has a cromlech, and there are several in Scotland, the Channel Islands, and Brittany. English Villages Mr. Outwood, whose thoughts were occupied with apses and plinths, not to mention cromlechs, at the time, thanked the sergeant with absent minded politeness and passed on. Mike and Psmith Here also stands a chambered cromlech of four huge flat blocks roofed over like the cromlech under Slieve Callan across the Shannon mouth. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque This stone is probably some kind of relative to the cromlechs of the Celtic Druids. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan Many would tell you she slept under the cromlechs but I don’t believe that, and she a king’s daughter. The Kiltartan Poetry Book; prose translations from the Irish Some sacrilegious persons transported a cromlech bodily from the Channel Islands, and set it up at Park Place, Henley-on-Thames. English Villages It appeared as if the great cones and cromlechs were tumbling pell-mell from every direction into the valley. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel Beside the stream, a tributary of the Blackwater, a huge red cromlech rises over the greenness of the meadows like a belated mammoth in its uncouth might. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Presently I reached it, and there—yes, there—standing by the cromlech, bareheaded, and clothed in his night-things only, stood Mr. Holly in the snow, the strangest figure, I think, that ever I beheld. Ayesha, the Return of She He learned from them that there were cromlechs and Druid altars within walking distance of Tara, and decided on a walking tour. The Untilled Field I have already mentioned the cromlechs and barrows and other memorials of the early inhabitants of Britain. English Villages "In Africa," he says, "cromlechs are called tombs of the idolaters"--the idolaters being neither Romans, nor Christians, nor Phœnicians, but some antique race. Atlantis : the antediluvian world Near Killternan village, a short distance off, is yet another cromlech whose top-most boulder exceeds both of these, weighing not less than ninety tons. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Its nipple shape and the bits of gravel wherewith it bristles all over the outside remind one of certain cromlechs of olden time, of certain tumuli whose domes are strewn with Cyclopean stones. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects He had visited all the ruins and pondered by all the cromlechs, and was a little weary of historic remains; the girl was too much in his mind to permit of his doing much writing. The Untilled Field There are still no less than fourteen dolmens and thirty-nine cromlechs. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples The bones found in the cromlechs are those of a large and dolichocephalous race. Atlantis : the antediluvian world Yet vast as all these are, they are outstripped by the cromlech of Howth, whose upper block is twenty feet square and eight feet thick, a single enormous boulder one hundred tons in weight. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque After many investigations and excavations around and under cromlechs of all sizes, it is now admitted by all well-informed antiquarians that they had no connection with sacrifices of any kind. Irish Race in the Past and the Present All over Ireland there are cromlechs, and the people point to those as the places where the lovers had rested in their flight. The Untilled Field The cromlech of Anajapoura in Ceylon, probably, however, erected comparatively recently, consists of fifty-two granite pillars, about thirteen feet high, encircling a Buddhist temple. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words. Notre-Dame De Paris A cromlech is piled in the midst of it, and an avenue of stones leads up to the circle. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque "Remains of some old cromlech," explained the Doctor. The Fawn Gloves All the cromlechs and circles we have thus far recorded are in the western half of our land; there are as many, as worthy of note, in the eastern half. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque It was in Great Britain, however, that cromlechs appear to have reached their highest development. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples In Glen Druid of the Dublin hills is a cromlech whose granite crown weighs seventy tons. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque There is a like script on the cromlech at Castlederg in Tyrone, if indeed the markings were ever the record of some thought to be remembered, and not mere ornament. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Where the shore rises again towards the Carlingford Mountains, another cromlech stands under the shadow of granite hills. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Like the earthwork round the cromlech of Lough Rea, it marks the boundary of a great nature temple, open to the sky but shut off from mankind. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Algeria presents a vast field for research, and it is easy to find dolmens and cromlechs, such as that shown in Fig. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples The Black Lion cromlech in Cavan is encircled with a like ring of boulders, and another cromlech not far off rivals some of the largest in the immense size of its crowning block. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque The cromlechs which have been excavated in many cases are found to contain the funereal urns of a people who burned their dead. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Three cromlechs in the same limestone plain add something to the mystery that overhangs all the rest. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque The chambered cromlech of Lisbellaw in Fermanagh has like markings; they are too similar to be quite independent, yet almost too simple to contain a recorded thought. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque On Mount Redgel-Safia six hundred dolmens have been made out, with stone tables resting on walls of dry stones and frequently surrounded by cromlechs. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples The standing stones and cromlechs, as we know, are everywhere spread over Ireland, so that it is probable that throughout the whole country one is never out of sight of one of these solemn monuments. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque There are cromlechs set alone--a single huge boulder borne aloft in the air on three others of hardly less weight. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Northward from Minorca, but still in our southern cromlech province, we find them in southeastern Spain, in the region of New Carthage, but far older than the oldest trace of that ancient city. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque This province, therefore, our southern cromlech province, covers most of the western Mediterranean; it does not cover, nor even approach, Italy or Greece or Egypt, the historic Mediterranean lands. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque At Blendowo in Poland, beneath a cromlech was found an urn filled with calcined bones, and thirty centimetres lower down a skeleton was discovered buried in the sand. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples From the same point, the Pillars of Hercules, begins our second or northern cromlech region, even larger and more extensive than the first, though hardly richer in titanic memorials. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Here is a chronometer worthy of our great cromlechs and stone circles. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque From Gibraltar, the cromlech region passes northward, covering Portugal and western Spain; indeed, it probably merges in the other province to the eastward, the two including all Spain between them. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Nowhere are there greater riches of titanic stone, in circles, in cromlechs, in ranged avenues like huge frozen armies or ordered hosts of sleeping elephants. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque These are either round or square cromlechs surrounding sarcophagi, or circular ENCEINTES, in which the dead were laid in a trench. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples Some of the stones upheld in the air in the Irish cromlechs weigh eighty or ninety or a hundred tons. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Just beyond the young stream of the Shannon, where it links Lough Garra to Lough Key, there is a lonely cromlech, whose tremendous crown was once upheld by five massive pillars. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque The distribution of the cromlechs is certain; the distribution of the race is certain; the age of one characteristic group of the monuments is certain. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque We have said much of the archaic cromlechs. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque In a neighboring island a circle of uplifted stones, covering an area of several hundred yards, reminds us of the cromlechs of Brittany. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples |
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