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megalith - use in sentences
Converse of object
- bury: Bronze Age village found with buried megalith A complete Middle Bronze Age village has been excavated in Essex.
- call: And the main course every day is called the megalith, after the huge stones which form the Avebury circle.
- contain: The ring is 104 meters wide and originally contained 60 megaliths although today only 27 stones remain.
Adjective modifier
- European: Dr. Midgley is currently writing a book on the subject of the North European Megaliths to be published in 2006.
- great: Unique online shop featuring items inspired by the great megaliths.
- ancient: Mostly rugged moorland, it's a haven for walkers and those on the trail of ancient Megaliths and Stone Circles.
- massive: What acts or rituals surrounded the quarrying of the massive megaliths?
- Neolithic: The area has a concentration of Neolithic megaliths, standing stones, passageways and court tombs.
- large: The largest megalith is 23ft ( 7m ) high and weighs about 20 tons.
Modifies a noun
- builder: Certainly the image of celestial bodies appearing to roll along a horizon was known to the megalith builders.
Noun used with modifier
- stone: In the second phase beginning around 2800BC, the wooden posts were replaced by stone megaliths, in two concentric rings.
- sandstone: Long Meg was a tall sandstone megalith and the daughters were granite boulders forming the circle.
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