shaft grave

noun

, Archaeology.

1. a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shaft grave¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Below this stratum was an older shaft grave, as is usual in tholos interments; it had been plundered?

From Project Gutenberg

The poet of the age of the second expansions, then,' is at least in touch with the work of the shaft grave and ages.

From Project Gutenberg