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Encyclopedia > Entrance grave

Entrance grave is a term given by archaeologists to a type of megalithic chamber tomb found in parts of Atlantic Europe, dating the early to middle Bronze Age.


Tombs of this type are covered with a round earth mound and contain a single chamber where the entrance area merges with the burial area itself, simply through a slight change in the alignment of the stone slab walls. They are also known as undifferentiated passage graves.


Entrance graves are found in Southern Spain and all along the Atlantic coast to Brittany. They are also present in southern Ireland, the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall.


An example is the Scillonian entrance grave group.


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Entrance grave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (137 words)
Entrance grave is a term given by archaeologists to a type of megalithic chamber tomb found in parts of Atlantic Europe, dating the early to middle Bronze Age.
Tombs of this type are covered with a round earth mound and contain a single chamber where the entrance area merges with the burial area itself, simply through a slight change in the alignment of the stone slab walls.
Entrance graves are found in Southern Spain and all along the Atlantic coast to Brittany.
Scillonian entrance grave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (330 words)
The Entrance graves of Cornwall, south east Ireland and the Isles of Scilly are megalithic chamber tombs of the Neolithic and early Bronze Age in the British Isles.
Entrance orientations in Scillonian graves follow no discernible pattern and they appear to have been used for deposition of multiple cremation and inhumation burials with up to 60 individuals found at Knackyboy Cairn on the island of St Mary's.
The earliest known finds from Scillonian entrance graves include fragments of middle Neolithic Carn Brea type ware and have led some archaeologists such as Paul Ashbee to argue that they are in fact of early Neolithic or even Mesolithic date.
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