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Encyclopedia > Shaft grave

A shaft tomb or shaft grave is a type of burial structure formed from a deep and narrow shaft sunk into natural rock. Burials were then placed at the bottom. A related group of shaft and chamber tombs also incorporate a small room or rooms cut laterally at the base of the shaft for the placing of the dead.


The practice of digging shaft tombs was widespread but the most famous examples are those at Mycenae in Greece which date to between 1650 BC and 1500 BC. These shaft tombs were around 4m deep with the dead placed in cists at the bottom along with rich grave goods. The position of the shaft was sometimes marked by a stone stela.


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The Shaft Graves (2552 words)
True shaft graves of the type found in Grave Circles A and B at Mycenae are relatively rare on the Greek Mainland.
A shaft grave is really nothing more than an enlarged cist grave entered through the roof from a shaft several feet deep which was itself dug from the contemporary ground surface.
Shaft graves may be roofed by timbers, reeds or twigs, and waterproofing clay or simply by large flat slabs.
The Shaft Graves (2552 words)
A shaft grave is really nothing more than an enlarged cist grave entered through the roof from a shaft several feet deep which was itself dug from the contemporary ground surface.
Shaft graves may be roofed by timbers, reeds or twigs, and waterproofing clay or simply by large flat slabs.
Earlier burials in a shaft grave are often pushed aside or stacked up in a corner when a new burial is made.
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