A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . y used throughout France. Galgal. Same as Cairn. Loggan. A rough stone so supported on asmall projection of its surface that it can berocked slightly without moving from its place ;called also Logan Stone from a misconceiitionof the origin of the term, which appears to bein its capacity of having a rocking motion. Meuantol. A stone through which a holehas been bored. These are rather numerous inIreland and Cornwall, and exist in many partsof the world. Such a stone may form part ofa larger monument, a croml
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . y used throughout France. Galgal. Same as Cairn. Loggan. A rough stone so supported on asmall projection of its surface that it can berocked slightly without moving from its place ;called also Logan Stone from a misconceiitionof the origin of the term, which appears to bein its capacity of having a rocking motion. Meuantol. A stone through which a holehas been bored. These are rather numerous inIreland and Cornwall, and exist in many partsof the world. Such a stone may form part ofa larger monument, a cromlech, or the like. Menhir. A single stone set upright. Ortholith. A single row of large stones. Parallelith. Two rows of stones forming anavenue and, therefore, arranged nearly jiarallelone with another. It is rare to find more rnwsthan two. Peristalith. An arrangement of large stones around the outside of a mound and, therefore, if the mound is nearly circidar, forming a kind of ring. The term is suggested by Peristyle and conveys the idea of columns around a sekos. 852 PLATE XXVIII. MEMORIAL ARCH. PLATE I That at Benevento in Campania, dedicated liy tlieSenate and the People to Trajan, and covered witlisculpture representing scenes in his life. The archis built of marble, and as it now stands is about fifty feel high, —a dimension interesting to note asillustrating the small scale and consequently mod-erate cost of these grandiose and effective monu-ments. MEGARON Trilithon. A group of throe stones of monu-iiieutal character. The luoiiunieiit ul Stcme-heiigc, as it is known to moderns, is eoniposetlnuiuily of trilithons. Tiie Cairn aiul theCistvaen or Kistvaeu are sonietinies inchided,but are not necessarily niegalitiiic. The study of niegalithic monuments jiassesinsensibly into that of other builchngs ofunlcnowu date; thus the Kistvaen and theCrondech were frequently the cores or centralchambers of earth mounds. J. B. Waring, fiioiie Monmneuts; Fergusson,Utide Stone JIvnume
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