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shaft grave  

Definition

  • A grave in which the burial chamber was reached by a vertical shaft, the burials themselves placed at the bottom of a deep narrow pit. The tomb was usually rectangular, and the burial chamber was roofed and the shaft above it filled in.

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Synonyme

  • shaft tomb

Quelle

  • Kipfer, B. A. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

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https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/defcthesaurus/shaft_grave/5.5

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