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chap, i Rude. Stone Monuments 27
tombstone, the Cromlech (from Kroumm ‘ curved ’ and
Lec’h ‘stone’) a circular burying-place, the Dolmen (from
Taol, Tol, ‘table’and Mean, Men, ‘stone’)1—sometimes
actually found in the heart of a mound or tumulus of earth-
a funeral chamber, while the ‘ alignement ’ or avenue of
Fig. 3.—Menhir and Dolmen.
upright stones bordering a causeway, as at Carnac in
Brittany, would mark out an imposing approach to the
abode of death (Figs. 3, 4). But whatever they are, their
Fig. 4.—Cromlech.
makers were men of an extended vision that could embrace
the distant future, men strong and determined to do a work
that should endure. We cannot gaze up at these rugged
memorials of hoariest antiquity without feeling them to be
1 Le Gonidec, Dictionnaire Breton-Franfais, Saint-Brieuc, 1850, s. vv.
tombstone, the Cromlech (from Kroumm ‘ curved ’ and
Lec’h ‘stone’) a circular burying-place, the Dolmen (from
Taol, Tol, ‘table’and Mean, Men, ‘stone’)1—sometimes
actually found in the heart of a mound or tumulus of earth-
a funeral chamber, while the ‘ alignement ’ or avenue of
Fig. 3.—Menhir and Dolmen.
upright stones bordering a causeway, as at Carnac in
Brittany, would mark out an imposing approach to the
abode of death (Figs. 3, 4). But whatever they are, their
Fig. 4.—Cromlech.
makers were men of an extended vision that could embrace
the distant future, men strong and determined to do a work
that should endure. We cannot gaze up at these rugged
memorials of hoariest antiquity without feeling them to be
1 Le Gonidec, Dictionnaire Breton-Franfais, Saint-Brieuc, 1850, s. vv.