Prehistoric structures, rough old pieces with a hint of Stonehenge

Usage examples of dolmens.

But where the dolmens I had seen were made of three or four upright stones capped by a large table stone, on the whole no larger than the height of a man, this dolmen was easily twice the height of a man.

He considers these structures to be simply sepulchral monuments, and, after examining five or six thousand of them, maintains that the dolmens of Africa and of Europe were all constructed by the same race, during their emigration from the shores of the Baltic to the southern coast of the Mediterranean.

The boulders they traversed were gigantic, standing like dolmens, heaped, jumbled, scattered into a labyrinth.