Concept information
Preferred term
Schachtgrab
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.
Broader concept
Source
- Kipfer, B. A. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
In other languages
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English
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shaft tomb
URI
https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/defcthesaurus/shaft_grave/5.5
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