Dolmen is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DOLMEN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a prehistoric structure or tomb of unhewn stones
• a megalithic tomb with a large flat stone laid on upright ones, found chiefly in Britain and France.
• A cromlech. See Cromlech.
• a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone
• prehistoric monument
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a prehistoric monument

Words related to DOLMEN

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Words that contain DOLMEN

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How to use DOLMEN in a sentence

• The grandeur of an isolated mountain, even of a dolmen or single upright stone, is evident to all.
• The hollow space beneath the dolmen was considered the altar-gate leading to paradise, so that whosoever passed through it was certain to obtain new life or immortality.
• Thirdly, the dolmen, which is a single slab of stone supported by several others arranged in such a way as to enclose a space or chamber beneath it.
• Some archaeologists also apply the word dolmen to rectangular chambers roofed with more than one slab.
• If the dolmen was to be partly or wholly covered with a mound, as some certainly were, it would not even be necessary to remove the slope.
• The best example is perhaps the dolmen of Saint-Germain-sur-Vienne, which was transformed into a chapel about the twelfth century.
• The simple dolmen is found in almost all parts of the country.
• The famous dolmen of Carrickglass, Sligo, is a still more developed example of this type.
• This form of tomb is without doubt a link between the simple dolmen and the corridor-tomb.
• The earliest type appears to be the simple dolmen with either four or five sides and a very rough cover-slab.
• In later times the dolmen became more regularly rectangular in shape, and only its roof-block appeared above the mound.
• Contemporary with this later form of dolmen were several other types of tomb.
• The true dolmen is extremely rare in Germany, and only occurs in small groups in particular localities.
• Of the definitely sepulchral monuments the dolmen is common in all parts of the French megalithic area.
• There is a fine dolmen in the Vall Gorguina in North-East Spain.
• In the same region is a ruined dolmen surrounded by a circle nearly 90 feet in circumference, consisting of seven large stones, some of which appear to be partly worked.
• Mackenzie has shown that the form is derived from the simple dolmen, and has pointed out several of the intermediate stages.
• The finest of all, however, the dolmen of Fontanaccia, has seven blocks supporting the cover, one at each short end, three in one of the long sides, and two in the other.
• Each grave consists of a dolmen within a circle of stones.
• The circle consists of a wall of stone blocks so built as to neutralize the slope of the hill and to form a level platform for the dolmen.
• In the centre of the circle lies the dolmen with its single long cover-slab.
• The dolmen itself is, of course, built directly on to the platform, and the space between it and the circle is filled up with rough stones.
• But in most cases it was impossible to make out clearly more than the one outer circle and the dolmen within it.
• The dolmen itself consisted of a large slab resting on walls formed of several large blocks, the spaces between which were filled up with smaller stones.
• In Tunis the dolmen is not uncommon, and several groups or cemeteries have been reported.
• Occasionally the dolmen is surrounded by a double circle of stones or covered with a cairn.
• The true dolmen is not found in Japan, and all the known graves are corridor-tombs covered with a mound.
• As no dolmen has yet been found in Japan we cannot at present derive the corridor-tomb there from it.
• But such a conception does not exist among all peoples, and to say that the dolmen is an imitation in stone of a hut is the purest conjecture.
• There is really no reason to derive either the dolmen or the corridor-tomb from dwellings at all.
• It will be readily admitted that the commonest and most widely distributed form of the megalithic monument is the dolmen.
• Perhaps, however, it was not the form of the dolmen which was brought by commerce, but simply the art of architecture in general, and this was adapted to burial purposes.

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