How To Use Megalith In A Sentence
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The view of the Aran Islands and beyond is astounding, as is the local geography, which includes caves, dolmens, standing stones, holy wells, around 75 megalithic tombs and around 500 Iron Age forts.
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Their simple round-based pottery has sometimes given them the name ‘bowl cultures’, but they are better known for the construction of monumental tombs out of large boulders or megaliths.
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I had heard that the megaliths at Stonehenge could be seen from a great distance and one would be overwhelmed as one approached closer.
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Unveiled in 1986, the megaliths were an instant hit.
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A megalith marks a place of sacred power in the Earth.
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This all says in advance okay, she occupies to the megalith mountain range, impossibly all and the mercenary soldier regiment is together ignorant.
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A prehistoric monument of a class found chiefly in the British Isles and northern France, consisting of a single tall, upright megalith.
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Some areas in northern France are also known for their megalithic standing stones, called dolmens or menhir.
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Finally, elaborate megalithic art in Ireland is found only at passage tombs.
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In almost all countries where megalithic structures occur certain fixed types prevail; the dolmen is the most general of these, and it is clear that many of the other forms are simply developments of this.
Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
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A municipal borough of northern Ireland on Sligo Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. There are megalithic ruins nearby. Population, 17, 232.
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The potential significance of Nabta as a ceremonial site was further strengthened by the discovery of an arrangement of stone megaliths (large free standing stones) on the western edge of the Nabta basin.
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Questioning the tomb assumption for megaliths does not mean that people never thought of them as burial places.
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The dry summer led to exceptional definition of buried megaliths, so that orientations and dimensions could be seen.
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His body lies beneath the vast funerary monument shaped by Jacob Epstein, but not even its megalithic weight can keep the spirit of Oscar Wilde earthbound.
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Megalithic temples that predate the Egyptian pyramids, Bronze Age archaeological sites, Phoenician inscriptions, and Roman catacombs all contribute to a sense of nationhood.
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megalithic monuments like Stonehenge
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Egypt and Sumeria were building their megaliths when the Indus, Tamil, and Jomon people were building theirs during the Ice Age.
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Megalithic standing stones and a 5000 year-old passage grave, a twelfth century church ruin, a fourteenth century O'Driscoll castle, cannonaded in the early 1600s, suggest times past.
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For instance, Raising the Megalithic Roof, from the May 2000 History Today, describes a similar twin-fulcra system used by Oxfordshire engineer Cliff Osenton to build replica dolmens.
Shifting stones
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They were the so called Megalithic People, the builders of dolmens, cromlechs and other monuments over or to their dead.
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I was looking for some info on the Maori style of tattooing, moko, and happened across this interesting article, Megalithic New Zealand.
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I am possessed, as much as the next man, of that stiff upper lip, steely resolve and adamantine backbone which make us British positively megalithic in the face of danger.
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There was a really great period in Nashville when this huge megalith label started doing these small artist records for some of the session players in town.
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The terraced square of rough stone blocks follows the terrain, suggesting an odd reminiscence of prehistoric megaliths.
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They were the so called Megalithic People, the builders of dolmens, cromlechs and other monuments over or to their dead.
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One contributor left his job as an aircraft design engineer to travel Europe in a camper van, researching little-known megalithic sites to add to the fast-growing sections on France and Germany.
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A dolmen (also known as cromlech (Welsh), anta, Hünengrab, Hunebed, Goindol, quoit, and portal dolmen) is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone (table).
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Seahenge, an ancient water megalith was a career-making story for Lorin Gallagher, a freelance writer with psychic ability to know the truth by touch.
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The mid afternoon sun glared down on me as I looked around for the megaliths.
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Similarly we ought perhaps to disclaim any direct connection between the corridor-tombs of the megalithic area and the great _tholoi_ of Crete and the Greek mainland.
Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
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Archaeologists have discovered an arc of buried megaliths that once formed part of the great stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire.
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Visiting the megaliths, especially the circles, grounds us in the long and mysterious history of humanity.
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Ewgrange is undoubtedly the best known megalithic monument in Ireland.
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Along the north-west coast of Britain, megalithic sites were commonly associated with mythical giants or were giants turned to stone.
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The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.
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The terraced square of rough stone blocks follows the terrain, suggesting an odd reminiscence of prehistoric megaliths.
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That soaring something on the skyline, a problematic feature at best, set off an orgy of megalithic excess.
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Yet why should we dismiss the idea out of hand as some advocates of megalithic spirituality seem to do?
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The most enduring symbol is the latte stone, a megalithic structure used to elevate houses in the precolonial period.
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In Ireland and Great Britain, sacred wells derive their distant origins from megalithic and Celtic times.
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Nuclear is megalithic in its production capacity and timescales - reactor commissioning can take ten years or more, with reactor lifetimes of decades followed by expensive decommissioning.
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So maybe the megalith is another harbinger, and it’s all pointing toward your apocalyptic vision, the arrival of the major big bad.
Monolith
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As we speak, one giant telecommunications company, the cable/programming megalith Comcast, is poised to take over another, the NBC network of local stations, cable channels and even a movie studio.
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It will include visiting ancient and powerful local places: ring forts, burial mounds, and megalithic tombs in Roscommon and Sligo.
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A megalith forms a giant sculpture.
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Inside, there is a display of paleolithic tools, neolithic stone implements and megalithic pottery.
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Visiting the megaliths, especially the circles, grounds us in the long and mysterious history of humanity.
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Plaid Cymru should use its position in government to oppose the building of the Severn Barrage "megalith", the editor of a Welsh language green magazine has told Golwg.
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We may dig, study, and scrutinize every part of Stonehenge, but we will never know all of the secrets of the ancient megalith known as Stonehenge.
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The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.
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Nearby is the 350m Auchenlaich cairn - the longest megalithic burial cairn in Britain.
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Some areas in northern France are also known for their megalithic standing stones, called dolmens or menhir.
