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Ireland, Historic and Picturesque / Johnston, Charles, 1867-1931
CONTENTS. I. VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE. II. THE GREAT STONE MONUMENTS. III. THE CROMLECH BUILDERS. IV ... . A wordless history is written there, in giant circles of stone and cromlechs of piled blocks, so old details...
English Villages / Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
. INTRODUCTION II. PREHISTORIC REMAINS III. TUMULI OR BARROWS IV. PIT AND PILE DWELLINGS V. CROMLECHS ... which existed before the dawn of history. CHAPTER V CROMLECHS, CAMPS, AND EARTHWORKS Stone monuments details...
Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. / O'Grady, Standish, 1846-1928
civilisation which has long since passed away. No country in Europe is without its cromlechs and dolmens, huge ... the civilisation or religion of the times? We see the cromlech with its massive slab and immense supporting details...
Stonehenge Today and Yesterday / Stevens, Frank
uprights. 3. _Cromlechs_ (Celtic = "stone circle"). Circles enclosing barrows or dolmens. Stonehenge is a highly specialised example of this last class. Round these cromlechs popular myth and superstition ... details...
A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients / Tyson, Edward, 1650-1708
-mentioned authority, without any claim to such distinction. They, however, worship at these cromlechs from time ... . But coming nearer to Northern legend, the cromlechs and kistvaens which abound over Southern India details...
Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 / Various
.--Hever--Steward Family--Gloves--Cromlech--Watewich--By Hook or by Crook--Tablet to Napolean--Lines on Pharaoh ... to have been intended to convey an intimation beyond that of mere courtesy. S.S.S. _Cromlech._--As your learned details...
The Story of Ireland / Lawless, Emily, 1845-1913
OF CHAPTERS). CROMLECH ON HOWTH. MOUTH OF SEPULCHRAL CHAMBER AT DOWTH. ST. KEVIN'S CHURCH. CORMAC'S CHAPEL ... -tilted cromlechs and dolmens, menhirs and cairns--whitened by lichen scrawls, giving them often in uncertain light details...
Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 / Various
. 318 Minor Queries:--Conrad of Salisbury--Peruse or Pervise--Cromlech--Meaning of Grummett ... .W. _Cromlech._--I shall feel much obliged if any of your readers will kindly refer me to any authority details...
The Open Air / Jefferies, Richard, 1848-1887
were always driving in all four seasons of the year; the level sunny plain and fallen cromlech still tall ... of the fallen cromlech, crouching down afar off in the plain behind me, cast its shadow in the sunny morn details...
The Brother of Daphne / Yates, Dornford, 1885-1960
to break into a run. Our luck was out. When we had completed the circle of the cromlechs, we came ... to disperse. Some exhorted one another to observe some feature of the cromlechs which was only visible details...