CYCLOPEAN WALLS

CYCLOPEAN WALLS is a name given to masonry built of large, irregular stones, closely fitting, but unhewn and uncemented. They were attributed to Strabo's Cyclopes, who were probably mythical, and many of them still exist in Greece (as at Mycenæ and Tiryns), Italy, and elsewhere. More probably the so-called Cyclopean walls were built by some ancient race, perhaps the Pelasgians (q.v.), at a period long anterior to the historical civilisations of Greece and Rome.