Later came stone circles and megalithic monuments in various forms, whence the connection is direct to cathedrals such as Chartres, which is said to be built largely from the remains of the prehistoric megaliths which originally stood there.
As to whether the plans of the architect were intrinsically good; whether the specification called for bricks where bricks were logically needed, and for megaliths in their proper place--these are questions that will not be entered on here.
We have thus in the axes and the megaliths a well-established sequence of forms, but no means of fixing dates except at the beginning and end of the whole period.
Peculiar types of axes (except the mattock), and the megaliths do not occur in the province of the banded pottery, which itself will probably some day give us the clew to a system of chronology.
The occurrence of so many megaliths in Finistere and the adjoining departments may be due to the need of the early traders to take refuge in the inlets of that region, while endeavouring to round the dangerous promontory.
It will thus be seen that this type appears to occur in just those regions in which megaliths and traces of early mining have been found.
In the British Isles we find that the megaliths in the main coincide with the metalliferous areas, though in some cases more closely with lead ores than with the metals previously mentioned.
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.
Henry Martin right in ascribing to the Cimerii of Scandinavia the erection in the Bronze age of the megaliths of Ireland?
There are significant megaliths in the Whitby region where the jet is so plentiful.
The twomegaliths seen from the Beckhampton road may be a remnant of it.
Some are held in the vicinity of certain "blue" stones, mysterious megaliths of unknown age.
Of the original six hundred and fifty megaliths eighteen are standing and about the same number are buried.
Two large "Sarsens" or megaliths lie by the side of the building, and a magnificent yew stands in the churchyard.
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