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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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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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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 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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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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They were the so called Megalithic People, the builders of dolmens, cromlechs and other monuments over or to their dead.
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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.
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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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megalithic monuments like Stonehenge
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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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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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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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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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Finally, elaborate megalithic art in Ireland is found only at passage tombs.
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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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In Ireland and Great Britain, sacred wells derive their distant origins from megalithic and Celtic times.
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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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Nearby is the 350m Auchenlaich cairn - the longest megalithic burial cairn in Britain.
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The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.
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Inside, there is a display of paleolithic tools, neolithic stone implements and megalithic pottery.
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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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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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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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The most enduring symbol is the latte stone, a megalithic structure used to elevate houses in the precolonial period.
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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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That soaring something on the skyline, a problematic feature at best, set off an orgy of megalithic excess.
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The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.
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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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Ewgrange is undoubtedly the best known megalithic monument in Ireland.
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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