dolmen
noun/ˈdɒlmen/
/ˈdəʊlmen/
- a pair or group of standing stones, with a large flat stone lying across the top of them, built in ancient times to mark a place where somebody was buriedWord Originmid 19th cent.: from French, perhaps via Breton from Cornish tolmen ‘hole of a stone’.
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