a funeral monument consisting of a horizontal slab supported on columns.

a prehistoric tomb having a well or shaft for an entrance.

a chambered tomb; see chambered, adj. 1b.

A megalithic burial chamber situated inside an artificial mound or cairn and entered by a passage. Frequently attributive.

A type of tunnel-shaped Neolithic tomb, typically comprising a long rectangular chamber, found esp. in central and northern France; = gallery grave n.…

A megalithic monument consisting of a burial chamber situated inside an artificial mound or cairn and entered by a passage; = passage grave, n.

Archaeology. An ancient Egyptian flat-topped tomb, rectangular or square in plan, with sides sloping outward to the base. Also mastaba tomb.

Ancient Greek History. An excavated circular tomb of the Mycenæan age, domed and lined with masonry. Also tholos-tomb.

a dome-shaped tomb of the Mycenæan age in Greece, cut in a hillside.

(see quot.: cf. 12).

= shaft-grave n.

applied to ancient interments in a ‘shaft’.

a kind of grave in which the body is placed in a stone chamber off a vertical shaft.

a tunnel-shaped megalithic tomb.

(See quot. 1970.)