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Definition of Triliths
1. trilith [n] - See also: trilith
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triliths
Literary usage of Triliths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Archæological Index to Remains of Antiquity of the Celtic, Romano-British by John Yonge Akerman (1847)
"DOLMENS, triliths, AND CROMLECHS. To these primitive structures various names
have been given by antiquaries, and much crude conjecture has been hazarded as ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"... and he succeeded in discovering a symbol, a character on the under surface of
the fallen impost of one of the great triliths of the inner circle «. ..."
3. The Archaeological Review by George Laurence Gomme, Gomme, George Laurence, Sir, 1853-1916 (1889)
"I have already cited Mr. Petrie's conclusion that the imported blue stones were
in fact set in position later than the triliths and ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1902)
"The analogues of Stone-henge, were found by Palgrave in Central Arabia, by Barth
near Tripoli, in Africa, consisting of triliths and stone circles, ..."
5. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1902)
"The triliths distinguish Stone-henge from other circles. Thedistance frona the
Sun stone to the Slaughter stone, is one hundred feet. ..."
6. Wanderings of an Antiquary: Chiefly Upon the Traces of the Romans in Britain by Thomas Wright (1854)
"Within this circle were two elliptical arrangements of large and small stones,
the former arranged in what the French archaeologists term triliths, ..."
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