单词 | allée couverte |
释义 | allée couverten. Archaeology. A type of tunnel-shaped Neolithic tomb, typically comprising a long rectangular chamber, found esp. in central and northern France; = gallery grave n. at gallery n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > types of ancient or prehistoric table tomb1738 well tomb1843 chamber tomb1850 passage grave1865 allée couverte1870 passage tomb1870 mastaba1882 tholos1885 beehive tomb1887 circle-tomb1889 shaft tomb1895 shaft-grave1910 pit-cave1921 gallery grave1937 dyss1938 1870 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. 2 64 This cromlech appears to be an elongated allée couverte..measuring 35 feet in length. 1896 J. W. C. Hughes Bradshaw's Hand-bk. Brittany 64/2 There is also an ‘Allee Couverte’ here, which has never been opened. 1930 V. G. Childe Bronze Age iv. 151 The discovery of a few Bronze Age trinkets among Neolithic or Copper Age grave goods in..the allées couvertes of the Seine-Oise-Marne basins. 1981 G. Daniel Short Hist. Archaeol. i. 33 In France a megalithic tomb was..excavated in 1685... It was..a good example of what we would now call an allée couverte. 2008 T. Darvill Conc. Oxf. Dict. Archaeol. (Electronic text) at word [The]allée couverte... comprises long rectangular chambers with little or no evidence of differentiation within them... Where excavated, the chambers are found to contain the remains of several hundred individuals. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1870 |
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