Some archæologists also apply the word dolmen to rectangular chambers roofed with more than one slab. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
The so-called dolmen-deity, Petit Morin, France 66 14. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
The so-called dolmen-deity, from the tombs of the Petit Morin. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
A stone placed on another one is called a "dolmen," whether it be horizontal or perpendicular. From Wordnik.com. [Over Strand and Field] Reference
But nobody rose up from behind the Mardian dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
He walked alone to the Mardian dolmen and round it. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
“Did you notice the Guiser lying behind the dolmen?”. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Each of these was about twenty feet distant from the dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Alleyn said mildly and turned to the area behind the dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
The Hobby and the Betty now stood right and left of the dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
The sergeant removed the inverted box from the top of the dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
At its centre the Mardian dolmen awaited the coming of the Five Sons. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
The lamina looked away from her and took another step toward the dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
A boy and a girl sat on Wolund's Barrow just under the dolmen it upbore. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen of Air and Darkness]
The lamina laughed merrily and stepped through the gateway the dolmen formed. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
The Hobby-Horse, who was behind the dolmen, gave a shrill squeak and went off. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
He dropped the body — laid it, like an egg, in the depression behind the dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
He trotted in contracting circles, a course that brought him finally to the dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Periodically he crept to the entrance of his dolmen and monitored the radiation level. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
They stood to left and right of the Fool, who, this time, was behind the Mardian dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Their light quivered over the dolmen and dramatized the attentive faces of the onlookers. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
They stood with their backs to their audience pointing their swords at the Mardian dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
One group dug underneath a dolmen, ate some of the earth, and carried off more as medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Bronze Age to New Age] Reference
A further patch, larger, lay about a foot from it, nearer the dolmen and still in the hollow. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
One of the top stones overhangs the others, showing the dolmen to have been originally larger. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
The lamina had closed the door that went by way of the dolmen to an open ground no longer there. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Sergeant Thompson moved in with his camera and Alleyn walked round to the far side of the dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
The sandbar where he was kneeling curved into a black sand beach beneath eel - black dolmen rocks. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
This portal dolmen was built by only two people even though its capstone weighs more than five tons. From Wordnik.com. [Making a Megalith] Reference
Above the water we found an immense natural dolmen, under which apparently the Bedawin take shelter. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
France, there is a curious dolmen, on one of whose upright stones or props are carved two human feet. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
I think I went fairly close to the dolmen that time because I seem to remember it between them and me. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Beyond the dolmen, the cliff rose up as sharply in the frame of the uprights as it did to either side. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
He walked over to the dolmen, glanced behind it and then moved on through the central arch at the back. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
And in the middle of the courtyard was the dolmen, very black, one heavy stone supported by two others. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
This type of circle (enclosing a dolmen) is found both in the Caucasus-Caspian area as well as in India. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Plouharnel and Erdeven, on a farm, a short distance off the road, is a dolmen, the largest in the Morbihan. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
The snake, evidently deciding there was nothing worth lingering over in the garden, sped toward the dolmen. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
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