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All these types of tomb were built from large slabs of rock which were uncut or worked only slightly. In each case, there was a "doorway" made from two large stones facing each other. The doorway led to an inner chamber, or a passage and chamber, lined with flat slabs.
It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. Newgrange is the main monument in the Brú na Bóinne complex, a World Heritage Site that also includes the passage tombs of Knowth and Dowth, as well as other henges, burial mounds and standing ...
An “incredibly rare” Neolithic tomb was recently found buried under a field in the United Kingdom, officials said. The stone tomb, which is about 5,000 years old, was unearthed during an ...
A passage grave or passage tomb consists of one or more burial chambers covered in earth or stone and having a narrow access passage made of large stones. These structures usually date from the Neolithic Age and are found largely in Western Europe.
Wales has more than 250 Neolithic burial sites, with some among the most remarkable in Europe. ... The Chambered tomb of Gwal-y-Filias near Crymych, Pembrokeshire [Prof George Nash]
The ruins of an “incredibly rare” 5,000-year-old tomb have been uncovered on one of the Scottish Orkney ... “In the Neolithic, it would have been an incredibly impressive 15 meter diameter ...
Gallery grave, missing a portion of its tumulus and all its stone caps, in a cemetery in Herrljunga, Sweden. A gallery grave is a form of megalithic tomb built primarily during the Neolithic Age [1] in Europe in which the main gallery of the tomb is entered without first passing through an antechamber or hallway.
A site in Tiarp, Sweden, is confirmed as one of the oldest stone burial chambers in all of Scandinavia, dating to the Early Neolithic period of about 3,500 BC.