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- Mar 2025
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www.lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk
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Pepys looked at the megaliths in 1668 and shrugged: ‘God knows what their use was.’
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- Nov 2021
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www.heritagedaily.com www.heritagedaily.com
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The word dolmen entered archaeology when Théophile Corret de la Tour d’Auvergne used it to describe megalithic tombs in his Origines gauloises (1796).
The first use of dolmen in an archaeological context was in Théophile Corret de la Tour d’Auvergne's Origines gauloises (1796) to describe megalithic tombs.
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- Oct 2020
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joyofmuseums.com joyofmuseums.com
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Plotting the find sites on a map shows that these petrospheres were often located in the vicinity of Neolithic recumbent stone circles.
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