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  Entrance grave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Entrance grave is a term given by archaeologists to a type of megalithic chamber tomb found in parts of Atlantic Europe, dating the early to middle Bronze Age.
Tombs of this type are covered with a round earth mound and contain a single chamber where the entrance area merges with the burial area itself, simply through a slight change in the alignment of the stone slab walls.
Entrance graves are found in Southern Spain and all along the Atlantic coast to Brittany.
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 Scillonian entrance grave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Entrance graves of Cornwall, south east Ireland and the Isles of Scilly are megalithic chamber tombs of the Neolithic and early Bronze Age in the British Isles.
Entrance orientations in Scillonian graves follow no discernible pattern and they appear to have been used for deposition of multiple cremation and inhumation burials with up to 60 individuals found at Knackyboy Cairn on the island of St Mary's.
The earliest known finds from Scillonian entrance graves include fragments of middle Neolithic Carn Brea type ware and have led some archaeologists such as Paul Ashbee to argue that they are in fact of early Neolithic or even Mesolithic date.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scillonian_entrance_grave   (330 words)

  
 Prague - New Jewish Cemetery
The grave's curb stone with two steps in the front has a high decorated bronze railing and, in the middle of the tomb, a high curb stone of the grave, which is decorated with a motif of curls.
Grave 4-7, 8-1 of the Altschul family is a tomb with a railing and two-side pillar structure with classical proportions and a low side balustrade.
Grave 3B-13-11 of the Löwy family dating from 1900 is, in terms of style, a homogeneous Art Nouveau tombstone ; it is oblong and conical, situated on a profiled pedestal, with a bronze application of a flower pattern, ended with a capital with volutes and a segment with a bronze application of a wreath.
www.porges.net /PragueNewJewishcemetery.html   (6567 words)

  
 Entrance Graves
Entrance Graves are upstanding monuments, their mounds reaching 2.5m high with most in the 1m to 1.5m range.
Entrance to the chamber is through a simple gap in the kerb, in some tombs the flanking kerbs project into the gap, constricting the entrance.
Entrance Graves are burial monuments, the primary burial often being cremated bone and charcoal deposited in a small pit in the chamber floor.
web.ukonline.co.uk /megalithics/gloss/egraves.htm   (864 words)

  
 Brane - Entrance Grave - Cornwall
Brane is mentioned by Hencken (2) in his definition of the Entrance Grave class in 1932, and is listed by Daniel (3) in 1950 as one of the four definite mainland Entrance Graves known at that time.
Entrance to the chamber is through an intentional gap in the kerbs, this outer section of the chamber was probably unroofed and forms a kind of passage.
A typical feature of Entrance Graves is that their chambers extend into the mound well past the centre point, at Brane this trait is taken to the extreme with a 3.7m long passage in 4.7m diameter cairn.
www.megalithics.com /england/brane/brnemain.htm   (940 words)

  
 Metz, France Photos
View of the main entrance (as seen from across the highway) showing the Choloy War Cemetery 1939-1945 entrance on the left and the RCAF cemetery entrance on the right - May 2001.
General view from the main entrance area showing World War II graves to the left, post-war NATO graves to the right, and the Cross of Sacrifice Memorial in the center background area - February 2001.
These graves are in a small plot adjoining the main cemetery at Choloy.
www.pinetreeline.org /metz/pcholoy-01.html   (1148 words)

  
 Archaeology Wordsmith
The grave might be lined with stones and covered with slabs or enclosed on four sides by stone slabs standing upright and closed with a lid (dolmen).
The scarce grave goods are similar to those from the court cairns, and both types of tomb are early within the Neolithic period, with dates close to 3800 BC.
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, used in the Early Bronze Age.
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 Pennance - Entrance Grave - Cornwall
Pennance is an Entrance Grave, an unusual monument class with a very restricted distribution, cilck HERE for an overview of the Entrance Grave class.
In contrast to another Entrance Grave with an intact mound that we visited at Brane, there were some very large stones on the top of the mound at Pennance, particularly at the SE.
As usual for Entrance Graves, the chamber penetrates the cairn to or past the centre of the mound.
www.megalithics.com /england/pennance/pennmain.htm   (698 words)

  
 Entrance Graves In Cornwall
Entrance Graves are less numerous than quoits in Penwith.
Unfortunately it was this road that ploughed through the grave which destroyed a large part of it, providentially the stone chamber was missed.
It is one of the smallest entrance graves in the country.
www.pznow.co.uk /historic1/entrance.html   (585 words)

  
 Scillonian entrance grave -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Comparable sites are also known in (A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay) Brittany and the (A group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France) Channel Islands.
They consist of a narrow entrance which leads into a rectangular burial chamber covered by a small round stone (Small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland) cairn usually revetted with a (An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)) kerb.
Entrance orientations in Scillonian graves follow no discernible pattern and they appear to have been used for deposition of multiple (The incineration of a dead body) cremation and (The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave) inhumation burials with up to 60 individuals found at Knackyboy Cairn on the island of St Mary's.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scillonian_entrance_grave.htm   (356 words)

  
 Scillonian entrance grave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The Entrance graves of Cornwall, south east Ireland and the Isles of Scilly are megalithic chamber tombs ofthe Neolithic and early BronzeAge in the British Isles.
Entrance orientations in Scillonian graves follow no discernible pattern and they appear to have been used for deposition ofmultiple cremation and inhumation burials with up to 60 individuals found at Knackyboy Cairn on the island of St Mary's.
The earliest known finds from Scillonian entrance graves include fragments ofmiddle Neolithic Carn Brea type ware and have led some archaeologists such as Paul Ashbee to argue that they arein fact of early Neolithic or even Mesolithic date.
www.therfcc.org /scillonian-entrance-grave-130227.html   (282 words)

  
 William Clark's Grave Site - St. Louis, MO
A son by his second wife, John Kennerly Clark, bequeathed money for a monument over the grave, which was erected in 1904.
Proceed one-sixth of a mile east to the cemetery’s main entrance.
Clark’s grave can be reached by taking continuous lefts from the main gate until you reach a group of 4 obelisks on a hill in the northwest corner of the cemetery overlooking an industrial complex.
www.greatriverroad.com /lewclark/clarksgrave.htm   (386 words)

  
 Archaeology Wordsmith
The European varieties were called court cairn, dolmen, entrance grave, gallery grave, giants' grave, hunebed, passage grave, portal dolmen, tholos, transepted gallery grave, and wedge-shaped gallery grave.
Shaft graves occur in various parts of the world and are not all of the same date.
In Greek architecture, the term is generally used for the burial chambers of certain passage graves of similar plan and construction.
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 CULTURE&TRADITION-The grave of Kim Woo-myung, Cheongpungpung-Buwongun
It is the grave of Chungik-kong, Kim Woo-myung who was the father-in-law of the 18th King Hyeon-Jong of the Lee Dynasty.
His grave is surrounded by the walls set in with round stone called "Moon Stones".
The funeral bier that was used at his death is preserved at the entrance.
www.iccn.co.kr /zz_iccn/english/WE1310_3.html   (337 words)

  
 Welcome to Netiran!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The entrance door (some side doors and entrances are still remaining) has a large vestibule, located on the north-eastern part of the castle.
There still remain the traces of the castle's wall, observation tower, two pyramidical embossed graves made of stones and plaster, the signs of the fort's fences, walls and ramparts which are still around the main area of the upper fort.
The grave's entrance is parallel to the cave's entrance, facing the valley of Tees.
netiran.com /?fn=artd(1788)&PHPSESSID=3355380d5aafc3c92b1dfe145ffac712   (1365 words)

  
 חברון Chevron - Hebron - Israel
Entrance to the Tomb of אדם חוה Adam and Eve
In the lower level beneath is the entrance and grave tomb of Isaac.
The Entrance to the Grave - Tomb of Leah
www.yarzheit.com /heavensregister/chevron.htm   (717 words)

  
 Model of passage-grave evolution (3400-3100/2970 B.C. / 2700- 2490/2400 b.c. [3250-3100 B.C.])
The neighboring (two-capstone?) primeval passage-grave's entrance is moved just one side-stone to the left from the corner.
That there was a deliberate effort to move the entrance/passage to the corner is shown by the apparent renovation of the grand-dolmen-like chamber at Sulkendrup Mølle, Vindinge Sb.
Here the dolmen's front entrance is closed off and a corner entrance is constructed during the Neolithic.
www.comp-archaeology.org /DKcaWEB_Model_of_passage_grave_evolution.htm   (1305 words)

  
 Uncle Sam's Grave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Samuel Wilson is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery, in the Northern part of Troy.
entrance, then follow the road to the right.
entrance) features Tiffany stained glass windows, and there are many smaller structures scattered throughout the grounds.
home.nycap.rr.com /content/us_grave.html   (141 words)

  
 Prehistoric Lakeland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
This entrance is typical of early Cumbrian stone circles and we can only wonder whether the nearby Giant’s Grave two “entrance stones” can therefore be identified as such.
Though this could be described as a coincidence, two standing stones near Swinside align perfectly with the summit of the Old Man of Coniston, suggesting the Old Man was one of the series of sacred mountains of the area, together with Helvellyn and Black Combe.
It places the Giant’s Grave, close the sea, into a prime location and its interpretation as an “entrance” into a sacred landscape in a firmer setting.
www.philipcoppens.com /lakeland.html   (2247 words)

  
 Sparresminde passage grave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The trees on and around the grave has been removed, finally someone has done something, and as my father said when he saw the grave without the trees: "it´s actually big".
The chamber is 10 meters long and has the typical shape of the passage graves on Møn: narrowest at the middle becoming wider at both sides.
The passage grave is situated at Sparresminde northeast of Æbelnæs.
web.telia.com /~u25003469/sparresm.htm   (188 words)

  
 Forest Home Cemetery - graveyards.com
When the Eisenhower expressway was constructed in the 1950s, it was necessary to remove over 2,500 graves from the northern parts of Waldheim.
As the law required, all known descendants of the persons in those graves were notified by registered mail or public notices in the newspapers.
On this virtual tour, the visitor enters through the northeast entrance and explores German Waldheim; crosses the river and explores the west sections; crosses the river again and explores the original Forest Home cemetery, ending near the Des Plaines river and Roosevelt Road.
www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/foresthome   (590 words)

  
 Entrance Grave Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
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 MATLACK’S   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
So there was the Matlack grave sitting in the middle of all that golden land, land the builder was planning to dot with the usual Cherry Hill dream of four bedrooms, central air-conditioning, and the other expecteds for hefty money.
The grave being very old, something like 300-plus years (older than our country), the builder took 50 by 120 feet of the land surrounding it and gave Matlacks to Cherry Hill Township then he went ahead and built his houses.
Like Catherine and Michael DeCicco and their kids, who live right next door to the grave (which is at 535 Balsam rd.), who are very aware of it because that clump of sassafras now stands all by itself in the middle of suburbia.
homepages.rootsweb.com /~szmatlok/matlackgrave.htm   (905 words)

  
 Tregiffian
The road had cut through the mound and ring of kerbstones in 1846 and luckily the chamber was at the other side and wasn’t destroyed.
The inner structure comprises a chamber set within an oval kerb of low stones that increase in height towards the entrance.
A large slab set between two uprights, one of which is cupmarked, defined the outer limit of the chamber.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /celynog/Cornwall/tregiffian.htm   (138 words)

  
 Burial Options
Simply put, protective caskets prevent the entrance of grave site elements, such as moisture and dirt, and are warranted to do so by the manufacturer.
Though memorials are often grave markers or monuments, in recent years, more contemporary forms have been planting a tree, purchasing statuary art or other personal memorabilia items included for home use.
Though grave markers are typically installed in a cemetery, there may be restrictions.
www.snowsmemorialchapel.com /burial_options.htm   (1503 words)

  
 Lands End Stone Circles, Dolmens and other ancient sites
Certainly they were part of some greater whole that we are far from understanding.There is a profusion of standing stones on the Land's End peninsula and they seem to be in every field or behind every hedge and each has their own story to tell.
There is an entrance grave on the SW side and this was probably there before the large cairn was built around it.
An entrance grave lying to the N of Lanyon Quoit.
freespace.virgin.net /ancient.ways/landsend.htm   (1854 words)

  
 Prophets Grave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The Prophets Grave is where Rev. William Smith is buried.
Smith was a minister in the town when the plague broke out, and it is a local myth that if the two Yew trees at the entrance to the grave ever join up, the plague will return.
The Prophets Grave is located in the Brisbane Glen area, about 1 mile from the town.
www.largsonline.co.uk /prophetsgrave.html   (93 words)

  
 Entrance grave - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Entrance grave - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Entrance_grave   (157 words)

  
 Pinball Archive Rule Sheet: The Addams Family
Complete GRAVE to score the GRAVE bonus of 2M, 3M, 4M, etc. to a maximum of 10M for the duration of the game.
I'm not sure if this award affects the Grave targets at all, but the normal way to advance jet bumpers is by hitting Grave targets.
The dot matrix will show you a grave for each of the bumpers and how many more times each bumper needs to be hit.
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 Minnesota Memories, Part 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Jim remarked that had he described her the way he describes his patients in clinical reports, he would have delicately written something like “The patient is a woman who has the appearance and physical characteristics of someone in their mid-80s.”
Betty and Carol took photos of Jim and me as he read — in his rich, baritone voice — some of the poetry written by Bertha and L.E. that was reprinted in a copy of my family history book I had brought along.
The ground was frozen so hard that it took two tons of anthracite coal to be burned on Harriet’s gravesite over a twp-day period for the soil to be sufficiently softened so that the grave could be dug.
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