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	Pyramid Mound Ireland - Newgrange - Crystalinks
		Within the mound, a long passage, only going in one third of the length of the mound, leads to a cruciform (cross-shaped) chamber.
		Although solar alignments are not uncommon among passage graves, Newgrange is essentially the only one said to contain the additional roofbox feature.
		The solar alignment at Newgrange is also still very precise compared to similar phenomena at other passage graves such as Dowth or Maes Howe in the Orkney islands off the coast of Scotland.
	www.crystalinks.com /pyramidireland.html (570 words)

	Knowth, a passage tomb in Meath County Ireland
		The Knowth passage tomb is unique in having two passage graves, one on each side of the mound.
		Due to this erosion, it is now impossible to determine positively if the two passage tunnels lined up (5000 years ago) with their perspective (winter, summer) solstice.
		Passage tomb, the white quartzite rock has been left in the position is was discovered.
	www.travelsinireland.com /ireland/knowth.htm (438 words)

	Passage grave - Definition, explanation
		Passage graves often have elaborate corbelled roofs rather than simple slabs and sometimes a kerb surrounding the barrow or cairn.
		The passage itself is often aligned in such a way that the sun shines into the passage at a significant point in the year, for example at sunrise on the winter solstice or at sunset on the equinox.
		Passage graves are often found in coastal regions across Atlantic and Northern Europe, dating from between 4000 and 2000 BC.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pa/passage_grave.php (251 words)

	stonelight.ie - Rites of Passage Graves
		The result is a colour illustrated fold-up sheet, with accompanying text, describing how the sun penetrates the passage grave fro a few minutes on the winter solstice every year.
		Dr Ray has demonstrated that the passage is very accurately aligned towards the sun as it would have risen over Ireland 5,000 years ago.
		Newgrange is believed to have been built to "house" Oengus, son of the sun-god Dagda, around 3,150 BC when the tilt of the earth's axis was slightly more than it is today.
	www.stonelight.ie /archive/arch18.html (391 words)

	The Passage Grave Rævehøj - Copenhagen Pictures
		Some of the oldest man made constructions in Denmark are the passage graves, which date back from the younger stone age, and are built between 3,200 and 1,800 years B.C. They consist of a chamber and a passage way, covered by a mound, which is usually round.
		This particular passage grave - Rævehøj (Fox Hill) - is situated on the West coast of Zealand, at the village of Dalby, close to the Great Belt coast and app.
		The decorations in the ceiling that you see on the last picture, are unfortunately of a much newer date, as are the very flat stones put between some of the carrying rocks near the entrance, to stabilize the walls.
	www.copenhagenpictures.dk /gravhoej.html (293 words)

	Passage grave
		Passage graves often have elaborate corbelled roofs rather than simple slabs and sometimes a kerb surrounding the barrow or cairn.
		The passage itself is often aligned in such a way that the sun shines into the passage at a significant point in the year, for example at sunrise on the winter solstice or at sunset on the equinox.
		Passage graves are often found in coastal regions across Atlantic and Northern Europe, dating from between 4000 and 2000 BC.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pa/passage_grave.html (245 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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).
		There are two main varieties: axial-chambered tombs, with the passage entrance opening from the center of the broader end of the mound, and lateral-chambered tombs, where two megalithic chambers are entered from opposite sides of the mound.
		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.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?category=&where=headword&terms=tomb (2622 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The round mound is in the passage grave tradition, but there is no clear distinction between the entrance passage and the funerary chamber, hence the alternative term, undifferentiated passage grave.
		The origin of the passage grave is unclear.
		Passage graves occur throughout the area where megalithic tombs occur in Europe, but have a predominantly western distribution.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?exact=1&terms=passage%20grave (207 words)

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		Passage Graves are set in a mound of earth or stone with a passage leading to the central chamber, and often have side chambers.
		Passage graves often occur in groups and those found in the Boyne Valley are superb: Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth.
		Some of these graves have a semi-circular area in front of the entrance were it is believed rituals would have been enacted before the ashes would have been buried.
	www.angelfire.com /apes/jonathanf/monuments.html (1265 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Carrowmore near Sligo in Ireland">thumb250pxrightA simple passage tomb in Carrowmore near Sligo in IrelandA Passage grave (sometimes hyphenated) or Passage tomb is a tomb, usually dating to the Neolithic, where the burial chamber is reached along a distinct, and usually low, passage.
		Passage tombs, especially later ones, are sometimes covered with a cairn of earth or rocks.
		Many later passage tombs were constructed at the tops of hills or mountains, indicating that their builders intended them to be seen from a great distance.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=passage_graves (383 words)

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		The passage graves were covered by an earthen mound with a stone wall or circle surrounding it.
		Other passage graves can be found throughout the west-coast and on the island Öland outside the southern part of the east-coast.
		Both dolmens and passage graves are mostly located at hill-tops that has a view overlooking a large area, they have been visible from long distances.
	www.saturniancosmology.org /files/henges/sw_text.txt (778 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Passage grave
		A Passage grave (sometimes hyphenated) or Passage tomb is a tomb, usually dating to the Neolithic, where the burial chamber is reached along a distinct, and usually low, passage.
		Variants include those with sub-chambers leading off from the main burial chamber called Cruciform passage graves and also those with wide forecourt entrances.
		The name refers to a considerable subgroup of the Chambered cairns, but passage graves are often also covered with earth barrows.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Passage_grave (387 words)

	NEWGRANGE
		But what distinguishes the passage graves above all from the other kinds of megalithic tombs in Ireland is the fact that dome of them, particularly those in the eastern half of the country, bear ornamentation on some of their stones.
		Of all the Irish passage graves, perhaps the most unusual is that at Knowth, which recent excavations have shown to have not one but two burial chambers placed practically back to back.
		One stone in the passage of one of the chambers at Knowth is almost certainly a stylisation of the human race.
	homepage.eircom.net /~magra1/Boyne/newgrange.html (825 words)

	Robert Graves Archive: Difficult Questions, Easy Answers (1)
		Graves had not had a muse since 1953: in the first of the lectures (11th October 1954) Graves emphasised that it was the 'crowning privilege' of every true English poet to receive the 'silent benediction' of 'the Muse, their divine patroness'.
		Graves uses the image of a migraine headache, and describes it as "universal": use of metaphor suggests a more powerful phenomenon than a mere comparison, and this is further intensified by the suggestion that the experience has an omnipresence.
		Graves was particularly influenced by Laura Riding's ideas on politics and society during their time together, though afterwards he reacted against them: it is therefore interesting to speculate on the nature of 'Seven Days in New Crete' had Graves written it while still under the spell of Riding.
	homes.ukoln.ac.uk /~lispjh/graves/graves-criticism/questions-001.html (8559 words)

	Neolithic Megalithic Tomb Builders Detail
		Passage graves are found mostly in northern and eastern Ireland near the Welsh coastline, with many of the most famous monuments located in the Boyne Valley area.
		Passage Graves are also outstanding because of the ornamentation of the actual graves themselves.
		From evidence of the remains of other Passage Grave builders in Spain and Brittany, one would gather that the builders in Ireland lived in age-based settlements, but the size of the Boyne evidence indicates that the builders lived in townships.
	www.nd.edu /~ikuijt/Ireland/Sites/mdonnel2/tombdetail.htm.htm (2210 words)

	Virtual Tour of Knowth - Mound, Western Passage, Kerbstones.
		All the tombs in the Boyne Cemetery are passage graves.
		As the name suggests, a passage grave comprises a long, narrow passage made of vertical and horizontal stone slabs, which leads directly to a burial chamber at the end.
		The Eastern Passage is called a ‘cruciform’ passage because the chamber at the end of it is divided into three side recesses, like the one at Newgrange, so the plan of the passage and chamber resembles a cross.
	www.knowth.com /virtual-tour2.htm (1409 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Neolithic Passage Tombs of Bru na Boinne - A647912
		The passage tombs of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth stand in the area known as Brú na Bóinne, in a loop of the River Boyne, a few miles west of Drogheda, County Meath, Ireland.
		The entrance to the passage in Newgrange is blocked by one of the kerbstones, an enormous stone which is carved in irregular double spiral patterns.
		At first it was thought that the passage must be the work of Vikings in the 7th or 8th Century, because it was not known that the pre-Christian people of Ireland were capable of such work.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A647912 (1615 words)

	Entrance Graves (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Entrance Graves are upstanding monuments, their mounds reaching 2.5m high with most in the 1m to 1.5m range.
		Entrance Graves are chambered and an unusual feature of this class is that the chambers usually extend well beyond the midpoint of mound.
		Entrance Graves are burial monuments, the primary burial often being cremated bone and charcoal deposited in a small pit in the chamber floor.
	www.megalithics.com /gloss/egraves.htm (864 words)

	The Stories
		They evolved into passage graves by the addition of a long, stone roofed entry way leading to the burial chamber.
		Newgrange, an Irish passage grave, is only one example of the knowledge and skills of these people.
		There are approximately three hundred passage graves in Ireland, all built by an unknown, ancient society hoping to house their dead inside what might have been to them an imitation of the birth chambers of Mother Earth.
	www.angelfire.com /trek/barbsbooks/TheStories.html (3512 words)

	Maeshowe: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A passage grave with a corbeled vault, it measures 115 ft (35 m) in diameter and 23 ft (7 m) high.
		...The Neolithic Village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe Passage Grave and Surrounding Monuments...the Neolithic village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe passage grave and surrounding monuments...and at the adjacent passage grave of Maeshowe.
		Dwelling among the monuments: the Neolithic village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe passage grave and surrounding monuments at Stenness, Orkney.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/maeshowe.jsp?l=M&p=1 (902 words)

	Daniel Traister's Home Page--Graves; World War 1 poets
		On page 114, Graves describes a man making "a snoring noise mixed with animal groans" -- and it is not a very pretty picture he conjures up for us here, in fact.
		Passages on pages 144-147, 216-217, and 228-232 (among many others) involve a kind of laughter, a kind of satire, about which Paul Fussell comments in his preface.
		An odd passage on page 209 finds Graves looking at dead animals as less suited to the scene he is in than dead people are.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~traister/graves.html (1012 words)

	Megalithism in Morbihan - Carnac - The Kercado and Mané-Kerioned Passage Graves
		The walling consists of 17 contiguous slabs; the passage is covered by five capstones and the chamber by a single one.
		Two pillar stones of the passage, as well as the one marking the southern entrance of the chamber, bear a reticulated motif similar to that of Mané-Kerioned or Petit-Mont d'Arzon.
		The northern jamb of the passage opening into the chamber no longer bears any sign of decoration but does take on the shape of an anthropomorphic figure which was probably roughly hewn in the stone.
	www.culture.gouv.fr /culture/arcnat/megalithes/en/mega/megacarker_en.htm (540 words)

	Covenant House Alaska
		Passage House is a transitional living program located in a residential neighborhood on the eastside of town.
		I continue at Passage House because I feel that I still have something to offer the girls in the program and because I believe in the mission and philosophy of care at Covenant House.
		Jennifer later moved to Passage House, where she continued to stay after the birth of her son, Deven.
	www.covenanthouseak.org /passagehouse.htm (696 words)

	County Meath Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		The entrance passage is long and narrow and leads to a central chamber.
		It is estimated that the construction of the Passage Tomb at Newgrange would have taken a work force of 300 at least 20 years to build.
		Passage graves are huge mounds built over a tomb, similar in concept I suppose to the Pyramids, although these graves are several hundred years older!
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Ireland/County_Meath/Things_To_Do-County_Meath-BR-1.html (1350 words)

	GRAVES SUPPORTS PASSAGE OF KEY BORDER SECURITY BILLS
		WASHINGTON – U.S. Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO) this week voted for three major pieces of legislation that will help increase border security and crack down on illegal immigration.
		The three bills, which all passed the U.S. House of Representatives, were developed after Members of Congress held more than 20 field hearings in the months of July and August to examine the issue of border security and identify ways to improve our nation’s current immigration system.
		Individuals caught using such a tunnel to smuggle aliens, contraband, drugs, weapons, or terrorists are subject to twice the penalty that would have otherwise been imposed.
	www.house.gov /graves/newsroom/092206a.htm (569 words)

	dolmen des monts grantez
		Waliking distance from the quarry in the parish of St. Ouen, in a field with panaromic views of the nearby bay, is the dolmen at Les Monts Grantez.
		An example of a passage grave, all of the stones are local granite and it dates from between 4000-3250BC.
		In 1912 the covering mound was excavated to reveal a roofed passage leading to an oval chamber in which the remains of six adults, a child and bones from cows and horses were discovered.
	jersey.typepad.com /dolmen_des_monts_grantez (296 words)

	Abstract of George Nash (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There is a limited but significant passage-grave art tradition in England and Wales which although restricted to two passage grave monuments in Anglesey and a destroyed megalithic structure located in a park in Liverpool, marks the eastern extent of megalithic art in Britain.
		The passage grave tradition is also the last megalithic architecture of the Neolithic.
		The three definite passage graves in North Wales and Northern England possess complex carved artistic forms that are usually located within the inner section of the passage or form part of the chamber alignment.
	www.hanwakan.org /Meetings/george_nash_abstract.html (317 words)

	Stone Circles of Scotland: Introduction
		They were the culmination of a tradition of large-scale monuments that was first expressed in the construction of communal tombs-barrows and passage graves.
		The passage runs to the southwest and is directly aligned with the midwinter sunset.
		Unfortunately, it had been broken into a number of times in the past and virtually all trace of its original contents are gone but several of its smaller neighbours contained the remains of a number of individuals along with some broken pottery and tools.
	www.odysseyadventures.ca /articles/stone-circles/article_stonecircles.htm (3429 words)

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