The exterior is faced with white limestone, with five piers of rusticated stone supporting fluted Corinthian pilasters.
Most have three floors with stables within the building and a gently sloping roof, stone supporting walls and internal constructions made largely from wood.
The ladder tactic is often a failure, if there are stones supporting those being chased close enough to the diagonal path of the ladder.
They were constructed with several large stones supporting a capstone, then buried under a mound of earth.
Above them sat a large slab of stone supporting the archway.
Fragrant bunches of dried herbs hung from the angled stones supporting the corbeled, conical roof.
Gradually, the shape became a massive trilithon, two great, upright stones supporting a third.
The dolmen is of the Severn-Cotswold tomb type, and consists of a large capstone on top, with smaller upright stones supporting it.
A trilithon (or trilith) is a structure consisting of two large vertical stones supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top.
A dolmen is a megalithic tomb with several upright stones supporting a flat table or capstone.