shaft grave

nounArchaeology.

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

Origin of shaft grave

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First recorded in 1905–10

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How to use shaft grave in a sentence

Below this stratum was an older shaft grave, as is usual in tholos interments; it had been plundered?
Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
The poet of the age of the second expansions, then,' is at least in touch with the work of the shaft grave and ages.
Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang

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