Cromlech
an erection consisting of two or more stones standing like pillars, with a large flat, or rather a slightly inclined one, placed upon the top, so as to make the whole present a rude resemblance to a table. Two fine cromlechs exist at Plas Newydd in Anglesea; others, less notable, are scattered through Wales; they exist also in Scotland, Jersey, Brittany, and throughout the Celtic area. Formerly they were generally held to be old altars for sacrifices. Modern opinion holds them to have been sepulchers. A cromlech is called also a dolmen. Somewhat similar erections are CROMWELL seen in various parts of Europe, in Arabia, in India, and North and South America.