poquelaye

plural poquelayes

1. A dolmen, cairn or similar ancient structure on the island of Jersey.

   “You and I gathered nuts, as children, in the same deep lanes, and played about the same poquelaye […].”

   1834, Harriet Martineau, The Jerseymen Parting

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   This Poquelaye consists of a large stone measuring in length about fifteen feet, in its breadth about ten, and nearly three in depth or thickness, formerly resting transversely upon five supporting masses of a smaller size […].

   1826, A Brief Description and Historical Notices of the Island of Jersey, page 129

   The druids had left their menhirs and poquelayes, the Romans their houghes, although raised fortifications seemed superfluous on the inland sites where they were to be found.

   1991, Lawrence Norfolk, Lemprière's Dictionary, Grove Press, published 1999, page 21