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CHAPTER V. 



MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS AND TUMULT. 



ALL over Europe, we might indeed say all over the world, 

 wherever they have not been destroyed by the plough 

 or the hammer, we find relics of pre-historic times camps, 

 fortifications, dykes, tumuli, menhirs or standing stones, 



FIG. 132. 



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Danish Tumulus. 



cromlechs or stone circles, dolmens* or stone chambers, etc., 

 many of which astonish us by their magnitude, while all of 



* In this country it has become stone. They should therefore, I 



the custom to reverse these two consider, be used as in the text. I 



names. Cromlech, however, is de- may add that " menhir," a standing 



rived from " crom," a circle, and stone, is derived from "maen," 



" lech," stone ; and dolmen from stone, and " Mr," long, 

 "daul," a table, and "maen," a 



