(1) As with other portal dolmens, access was through the gap between the side walls and the capstone .(2) The capstone of the third grave had survived, however, and inside lay the fragile remains of a child aged about 9-12.(3) Erected around 3,500 BC, it has the largest capstone in Europe.(4) The capstone on this Dolmen is considered to be the biggest in the world.(5) Imagine an ancient burial site, which has the biggest capstone in Europe yet no one is able to get to it.(6) A capstone is the uppermost stone of a structure in architecture.(7) The largest block recorded is the capstone of the tomb at Browneshill, County Carlow, Ireland, estimated to weigh 100 tonnes.(8) It is easily as large as the Great Pyramid at Giza, but it is white with a golden capstone .(9) At the centre of this monument are several upright stones, and a great big capstone lying horizontally across the top and resting on mere knife-edge points of three of the standing stones.(10) our time might be merely the capstone to the age of humankind(11) A 24-inch base material of #2 or #3 stone and 12 inches of ground aggregate capstone were used to provide a quality subgrade.(12) This in turn leads to the much larger trapezoidal burial chamber at a slightly higher level, which has survived with its capstone intact.(13) Portal tombs are so called from the two large upright stones forming the entrance to the burial chamber; a capstone is set over these and slopes backwards to rest on backstones.(14) And I, the son and grandson of Indiana architects, seize this opportunity to suggest a feature which I hope will be included in the completed structure, words to be chiseled into the capstone over the main entrance.(15) The capstone porch railings are made of quarried Indiana limestone, and the quakeproof foundation includes 29-inch thick walls.(16) When we reached the spot they had turned, we could see that a carved capstone had been rolled into place behind them.
