stone circle en · NOUN
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A prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle.
"I was referring to a stone circle that we have here. Perhaps you have heard of it?" "The Druids' altar!" exclaimed Carrados with an inspiration.
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:Near Smeinogorsk an octagonal tumulus has been found containing the corpse of a horse near a rectangular one with a human corpse, both within stone circles.
1898, Friedrich Ratzel, The History of Mankind, volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., page 325:
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nb steinsirkel (prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle) · fi kivikehä (prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle) · de Steinkreis (prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle) · ko 환상열석 (prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle) · cy meingylch (prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle) · nn steinsirkel (prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle) · ga ciorcal liag (prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle) · nl steencirkel (prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle)