cromlech

[ krom-lek ]

/ ˈkrɒm lɛk /

(no longer in technical use) a megalithic chamber tomb.

Compare chamber tomb, dolmen, passage grave.

Origin of cromlech

1595–1605; < Welsh, equivalent to crom bent, curved, crooked (feminine of crwm) + lech, combining form of llech flat stone

While this sheet is passing through the press, I have had an opportunity of exploring this cromlech.

The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland |Daniel Wilson
This cromlech is surrounded by a trench and an earthen embankment.

The Student's Mythology |Catherine Ann White
It was not a cromlech after all, only a pile of boulders, so they turned back again.

A Fortunate Term |Angela Brazil
The weather, and perhaps farmers, have taken away the mound, and laid bare the cromlech; but look!

A harum-scarum schoolgirl |Angela Brazil

Blood-red came the sun between the two monoliths to fall upon the great Cromlech that was redder still with human gore.

Day of the Druid |Knut Enferd

cromlech

/ (ˈkrɒmlɛk) /

a circle of prehistoric standing stones

(no longer in technical usage) a megalithic chamber tomb or dolmen

C17: from Welsh, from crom, feminine of crwm bent, arched + llech flat stone