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On the class of rude stone monuments

which are commonly called in England cromlechs, and in France dolmens, and are here shown to have been the sepulchral chambers of once-eixsting mounds : prevailing errors on the subject refuted by a critical examination of the monuments referred to by the maintainers of these errors

by William Collings Lukis

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Includes bibliographical references "The first of the three articles here published appeared in "Nature," on August 13, 1874, and an arrangement was made with the Editor of that Journal that its pages should contain the two succeeding portions of this paper." -- Introduction

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Megaliths, stone circles, and archaeoastronomy.

  • Megaliths, stone circles, and archaeoastronomy

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary matched “Dolmens” and “Megalithic monuments”. Retained metadata contains “Dolmens” in the subtitle, “Dolmens” in the subject metadata, “megalithic” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Dolmens”· via Internet Archive
    • “Megalithic monuments”· via Internet Archive
    • “Dolmens”· via Open Library
    • “Dolmens”· in subtitle
    • “Dolmens”· in subject
    • “megalithic”· in subject

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which are commonly called in England cromlechs, and in France dolmens, and are here shown to have been the sepulchral chambers of once-eixsting mounds : prevailing errors on the subject refuted by a critical examination of the monuments referred to by the maintainers of these errors

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1875Printed for the author by Johnson and Co.; Ripon, [England] : Printed for the author by Johnson and Co. ; London : Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.English—Public

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  • Contributing institution: University of Connecticut Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Scanner: scribe6.boston.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL13846425W
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