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VI.—DOLMENS.
IN some previous notes I have given an account of some measurements of the so-called "cromlechs "of Cornwall. In referring to this subject in a more general manner, it will be well, I think, pour preciseles, to refer to the word itself. In English works on archasology it is used as a variant for dolmens, chambered barrows, chambered cairns, and kistvaens, while in France it is applied to the more or less irregular circles and groups of stones associated with avenues; and there the: equivalents of the Cornish "cromlechs,"which exist in great numbers, are invariably called dolmens.
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From MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, quoted in "Archæologia," vol xxxviii., p 407.
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LOCKYER, N. Notes on Ancient British Monuments 1 . Nature 77, 414–416 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077414a0
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