Gavr’ Inis is a small island, surmounted by a tumulus, which forms a conspicuous object, seen from all the mounds and dolmens around.
These dolmens belong to a much later period of civilisation than those of Locmariaker—to the "Bronze" Age.
They were discovered in a group of dolmens near the village, opened in 1830, consisting of three grottos or allées couvertes, a kind of triple dolmen, covered over with a mound.
The number of dolmens in the Morbihan is estimated at 250.
The dolmens contain implements of stone and bone, occasionally gold and bronze, but never iron.
The morning of the twenty-seventh was mostly taken up with a report from General Faid'herbe on the dolmens of Algeria.
The dolmens occur also in Scandinavia, France, and Brittany.
When these dolmens remain in the state in which they were left, still covered with earth, they take the name of tumuli.
In Denmark, and many other places, the dead were buried in dolmens or tumuli.
As we have seen it seems likely that the dolmen is derived from the rock-cut tomb, and such tombs, and dolmens too, occur in Syria.
Thurlow: The dolmensand megalithic tombs of Spain and Portugal.
He further shows that such primitive dolmens are derived from cave tombs, found in the neighbouring region, and in these caves the antechamber seems more apparent.
Stone circles are found to the east in Seistan[172], while both these anddolmens occur further east in India.
Knut Sterjna[137] believed that the English chambered long barrows represented a stage in the evolution from the dolmens to the chambered barrows (sepultures a galerie) of Denmark and Sweden.
The French anthropologists have made a list of the dolmens in France, and published a summary giving the number noted in each department,[136] a catalogue of the British megaliths is in process of formation.
Taking all the facts into consideration it seems more likely that the Iberian caves and dolmens are derived from the rock-cut tombs of south-east Sicily.
Apparently none of these dolmens have been systematically excavated, and nothing is known of their date.
In the Nilgiri hills there are stone circles and dolmens, and numbers ofdolmens are said to exist in the Neermul jungle in Central India.
In the Jaulân, where the rock consists of a slabby type of basalt, there are many dolmens of fine appearance.
Even here the confusion between the two types is shown by the fact that near Birori there are two dolmens with a round plan.
The Maltese cells are not like dolmens at all, they are either trilithons or tables resting on a pillar.
In the collectorate of Bellary dolmens and other monuments to the number of 2129 have been recorded.
In 1872 two events of importance to the subject occurred, the publication of Fergusson's Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries, and the discussion raised at the Brussels Congress by General Faidherbe's paper on the dolmens of Algeria.
In many cases the Irish simple dolmens were surrounded by a circle of upright stones.
On the farm of the Grassi, near Lecce, are what appear to be two small dolmens at a distance of only 4 feet apart; they are perhaps parts of a single corridor-tomb.
The cover-slabs of the dolmens usually rest on single uprights, and never on built walls.
One of the dolmens of Finistère is said to cure rheumatism in anyone who rubs against the loftiest of its stones, and another heals fever patients who sleep under it.
Men had begun to raise huge dolmens which are found in various parts of the Old World from England to India.
Most if not all dolmens were originally covered with earth.
Other dolmens at Keryn, Kergleverit, and Parq-er-Gueren, near the Chapel of S.
The dolmens are very numerous, but not in the commune of Carnac to the extent that they are in the adjoining parishes.
At Cap Brohel, ruined dolmensand fallen menhirs; at Pen-lious three fallen dolmens and some menhirs.
The dolmens and allées couvertes were sepulchres, family or tribal; and the alignments consist of stones erected by members of the tribe or families belonging to the tribe in honour of the several dead who were laid in the dolmens.
Two dolmens are near the road, in the parish of Plomeur, which has an ugly modern church.
Several dolmens are scattered over the neighbourhood, and menhirs as well, of which one is 21 feet high.
Kernuz, transformed by the proprietor into a museum of flints, bronze and jade weapons, and gold ornaments found in the cairns and dolmens of the neighbourhood.
To the south the ground is strewn with ruined dolmens and menhirs either fallen or standing, relics of alignments that have been plundered.
There is a menhir near the seamark at Kermenhir, and there are dolmens in the parish.
Moustéro and the menhir of Quelhuit, and the dolmens more or less ruined of S.
The whole neighbourhood is strewn with remains of dolmens and with fallen menhirs.
Holed dolmens or naturally pierced blocks are used for the magical cure of sickness both in Brittany and Cornwall, the patient being passed through the hole.
The old idea that dolmens were Celtic altars is now abandoned.
The tale is localised in various parts of Ireland and the Highlands, many dolmens in Ireland being known as Diarmaid and Grainne's beds.
In the northern part of Sweden have been found relics of stone, usually of slate, which do not appear to have belonged to the people of the dolmens or passage-graves.
He left a sort of missal in which he related his life at Sarek Abbey and drew the thirty dolmens of the island, the whole accompanied by instances, religious quotations and predictions after the manner of Nostradamus.
He was everywhere; he was master of the island, master of the subterranean dwellings, master of the heaths and woods, master of the sea around them, master of the dolmens and the coffins.
Dolmens are found also in straight lines, forming a sort of covered gallery.
Certain monuments, which are called, according to their form, menhirs, dolmens or cromlechs.
The dolmens usually have a hole at one end, or a footstone that is removable at will, to allow for food to be passed in to the dead, and for the introduction of fresh applicants for house-room in the mansion of the departed.
Some of these holed dolmenshave the stone plugs for closing the holes still extant.
The dolmens proper gave place in the end to great chambered mounds or tumuli, as at New Grange, which we also reckon as belonging to the Megalithic People.
Dolmens are found from Scandinavia southwards, all down the western lands of Europe to the Straits of Gibraltar, and round by the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
It is believed that most if not all of the now exposed dolmens were originally covered with a great mound of earth or of smaller stones.
They are chased all over Ireland, and the dolmens in that country are popularly associated with them, being called in the traditions of the peasantry "Beds of Dermot and Grania.
Possibly an explanation of the veneration attaching to great and isolated masses of unhewn stone may be found in their resemblance to the artificial dolmens and cromlechs.
Dolmens found in, 53; symbol of the feet found in, 77 SEM´ION.
Roughly, if we draw a line from the mouth of the Rhone northward to Varanger Fiord, one may say that, except for a few Mediterranean examples, all the dolmens in Europe lie to the west of that line.
There were Celts in Cisalpine Gaul, but there were nodolmens there, and there were no Druids.
Had I obtained a meal at Crégols, I should have looked for some dolmens said to be in the neighbourhood, but failure in one respect spoilt my zeal in the other.
Nevertheless, in almost all the dolmensand later tombs mirrors of bronze were placed.
Seen in plan, the dolmens presented many shapes: a simple chamber or gallery; a chamber with a gallery, or a series of chambers with a gallery.
One of the largest dolmens that I visited is known as the Merchants' Table.
Dotted all over the vast plains are dolmens and cromlechs of varying size.
Gowland, "The Dolmens and Burial Mounds in Japan," in Archaeologia, vol.
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.
Such sculptures, which are repeated in various dolmens and artificial mortuary caves in the valley of the Seine, may be of religious import.
In all the other dolmens the carvings are much less numerous and not so close.
The numerous menhirs and dolmens to be found in the district, to which local superstitions still cling, are probably monuments of still earlier inhabitants.
Denis and Carton have excavated the megalithic necropolis of Teboursouk, whose tombs are stone circles, with one or more small dolmens in the centre.
As to the form of the monuments, it is very variable at different ages; there are some covered passages or chambers completely closed, some dolmens with openings like those of India.
It was here that I discovered a group of dolmens in 1882, which had previously been overlooked amid the many natural boulders, and which are no doubt connected with the old worship of the region.
Moreover, the stone table is sometimes supported by flat stones on the rock; and observers who have found bones under dolmens have not always proved that they are original interments.
On the dolmens in Ireland, called "beds of Diarmed and Grain," youths and girls used to deposit gifts of corn and of flowers.
Stonehenge was near a British village, and the rude tribes which built the dolmensno doubt, like all early migrants, settled round the natural waters of the country.
From such notes it is clear that dolmens are intimately connected with ancient superstitious practices.
After making measured drawings of about a hundred and fifty dolmens in Moab, I was able to obtain some general results.
As already noted, there are traces of a ring of dolmens round the knoll, and it is curious that none of these particular examples are mentioned in any previous account of the site, as far as I can find.
The dolmens of Moab, the true copy of the Siloam inscription, the shekels sent home by Mr. Drake, the plan of the Hebron Haram, are the most ancient antiquarian results we have been able to place before the public.
The surveyors, who found so many dolmens in Moab, found none at all south of Galilee.
The Greeks and the Romans would not have so acted, and dolmens still stand close to the Roman city of 'Amman.
Dolmens are also connected with the old ceremony of "passing through," which is observed in India as well as in our own islands.
Local tradition suggests that Dickens intended the episode for a skit upon archaeological theories about the dolmens known as Kit's Coty House, and that a Strood antiquary keenly resented the satire.
There are also three dolmens on the north side of Meiron; they are not far apart, and are quite distinct, though of small dimensions; there are no traces or marks of any kind on the stones.
This accounts fordolmens not having been found, except with a few doubtful specimens, in Galilee to the west of the Jordan.
Thus, if there be any comparative scale of antiquity on which we can rely connected with the finish of the monument, the Syrian dolmens may claim to be considered among the oldest of their kind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dolmens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
