At the time of my visit, there were within one of the cromlechs a conch shell, lingam, bell, and flowers.
Close to the village of Bethalhada is a row of cromlechs carved with figures of the sun and moon, human beings, animals, etc.
That the builders of our European tumuli and cromlechs were maritime arrivals is a reasonable inference from the fact that dolmens and cromlechs were built almost invariably near the sea.
As the cromlechs of Brittany are termed poukelays or "puck stones," it is possible that the dolmens or tolmens of there and elsewhere were associated with the fairy tall man.
That memories of the ancient mythology sometimes hang around our British cromlechs is proved by an instance in North Wales where there still stands a table stone known locally as Llety-y-filiast, or the stone of the greyhound bitch.
Even to-day the superstitious veneration for cromlechs and holy stones is not defunct, and it is largely due to that ingrained sentiment that more of these prehistoric monuments have not been converted into horse-troughs and pigsties.
One may perhaps get a further sidelight on the marvellous labyrinthic cave temples of the ancients by a reference to the so-called worm-knots or cup-and-ring markings on cromlechs and menhirs.
The bones found in the cromlechs are those of a large and dolichocephalous race.
The Cromlechs (dolmens) of Algeria" was the subject of an address made by General Faidherbe at the Brussels International Congress.
Almost all the primæval stone circles and cromlechs which existed in the middle and southern districts of Scotland have been cast down and removed.
We have not, for instance, a particle of direct evidence for the too common belief that our stone circles were temples which the Druids used for worship; or that our cromlechs were their sacrificial altars.
The only two cromlechs in the Lothians, the stones of which have not been removed, are at Ratho and Kipps; and though the stones have been wantonly pulled down, they could readily be restored, and certainly deserve to be so.
We might call the next step forward the acquisition of a religion, of which the first signs are apparent in the cromlechs of this age.
The religion of the mound-builders probably consisted in part of the worship of the dead, so that the very tombs themselves, and not the cromlechs only, were a sort of temples.
It is possible that they may be Saxon, and may be the records of Alfred's victories; but antiquaries are inclined to assign them to an earlier date, and connect them with the builders of cromlechs and dolmens.
I have already mentioned the cromlechs and barrows and other memorials of the early inhabitants of Britain.
Cromlechs are found, chiefly in the rocky limestone district of Burren in the N.
Occasionally, too, the tribes mentioned make small cromlechs for burial purposes, and place the long water-worn pebbles in them.
They make miniaturecromlechs of small slabs of stone, and place within them a long pebble to represent the deceased.
Cromlechs occur in Phoenix Park, Dublin, at Howth, and elsewhere.
He says:--"The serpent appears on the prehistoric cromlechs and menhirs of Europe, on which I believe the remains of phallic worship may be traced.
Sidenote: Comparison of the Nanga with the cromlechs and other megalithic monuments of Europe.
In no other known spot of either these islands or France are so many cromlechs to be seen in so small a space, and very few seem to know anything about it.
Many of the cromlechs have been torn down, and some of them have been actually made to serve as road walls and have been built over.
There is the extraordinary Druid remains of Carrowmore, only three miles from Sligo town, where there are almost, if not quite, half a hundred cromlechs to be seen on about half a dozen acres.
Sepulchral mounds, ruined raths, tortuous caves, and weather-worn cromlechs are to be found on almost every side.
Hoare says that the construction of stone temples and cromlechs has generally been attributed to the Druids, but without any certainty of proof.
See various Cromlechs and other Druidical remains at Garryduff-hill, especially Leibe ne Cuhn, or the Priest's Grave, with stone cells.
Redhall; Olderfleet, and various ancient Castles in ruins; several Cromlechs on the E.
To take a case in point: Cromlechs are most numerous in England, and dolmens in France, and in both these countries we meet with a form of dolmen (Fig.
The Khassias of India make cromlechs of large, flat unhewn stones, some six to seven feet high, and the Angami-Nagas of the extreme north of British India set up extensive alignments of menhirs, similar to those of France.
In a neighboring island a circle of uplifted stones, covering an area of several hundred yards, reminds us of the cromlechs of Brittany.
It was in Great Britain, however, that cromlechs appear to have reached their highest development.
In Italy, the only cromlechs known are those of Sesto-Calende and those of the plateau of Mallevalle near Ticino.
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These Channel Island dolmens are of wholly different type from the familiar cromlechs of the mushroom pattern of Kits Coty House, near Aylesford, or of Pentre Evan, in Pembrokeshire.
It was to mark the graves of the warriors who fell in that dim-distant fray that the circles and cromlechs which dot its site were probably erected; but the Irish have another theory, which we shall hear presently.
There are two most impressive cromlechs at Carrowmore, quite close together, and my pictures of them are opposite the next page.
At Mathry some cromlechs occur near the road, and two miles farther on a wayside cross may be seen.
Llanddwywe Church~ is not of any particular interest, but two cromlechs stand nearly opposite the King's Head Inn, about eighty yards from the road.
After many investigations and excavations around and undercromlechs of all sizes, it is now admitted by all well-informed antiquarians that they had no connection with sacrifices of any kind.
Many of the so-called cromlechs of England are not true dolmens, but the remains of tombs of more complicated types.
We have already noticed the cromlechs which form part of the alignements of Brittany.
There are many antiquarians who affect to despise the rude architecture of the Celts, nay, who would think the name of architecture disgraced if applied to cromlechs and bee-hive huts.
It makes no difference if it can be shown that below these cromlechs coins have occasionally been found of the Roman Emperors.
In the slabs that form the cromlechs we find no such traces of careful workmanship; and this, as well as other considerations, would support the opinion, that in Stonehenge we have one of the latest specimens of Celtic architecture.
The cromlechs are no doubt the most characteristic and most striking among the monuments of Cornwall.
The same argument applies to the cromlechs and stone avenues of Carnac, in Brittany.
Though many of these cromlechs have been destroyed, Cornwall still possesses some fine specimens of these ancient stone tripods.
Roman and Saxon hands may have helped to erect some of the cromlechs which are still to be seen in Cornwall, but the original idea of such monuments, and hence their name, is purely Celtic.
There are vast numbers of cromlechsin Anglesey, but year by year sees the number decrease.
CYBI’S WELL] There are several cromlechs about Criccieth, but not of any great size.
So these cromlechs and kistvaens may teach us something.
Farmers are only too delighted to have cromlechs and other prehistoric stone monuments blown up with dynamite and cleared off.
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