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	Megalithic tomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Examples with outer areas, not used for burial are also known, the Court Cairns of south west Scotland and northern Ireland, the Severn-Cotswold tombs of south west England and the Transepted gallery graves of the Loire region in France share many internal features although the links between them are not yet fully understood.
		That they often have antechambers or forecourts is thought to imply a desire to emphasise a special ritual or physical separation of the dead from the living by the builders.
		The Passage graves of Orkney, Ireland's Boyne Valley, and north Wales are even more complex and impressive, with cross shaped arrangements of chambers and passages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megalithic_tomb (932 words)

	Chamber tomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the case of individual burials, the chamber is thought to signify a higher status for the interree than a simple grave.
		Built from rock or sometimes wood, the chambers could also serve as places for storage of the dead from one family or social group and were often used over long periods for the placemnet of multiple burials.
		Grave goods are a common characteristic of chamber tomb burials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chamber_tomb (228 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Transepted gallery grave
		Transepted gallery grave is a term used to describe a number of similar megalithic chamber tombs built across Atlantic Europe during the Neolithic period.
		Examples with outer areas, not used for burial are also known, the Court Cairns of south west Scotland and northern Ireland, the Severn-Cotswold tombs of south west England and the Transepted gallery graves of the Loire region in France share many internal features although the links between them are not yet fully understood.
		Grave goods are a common characteristic of chamber tomb burials.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Transepted-gallery-grave (325 words)

	5- Conspicuous evidence for Early Farmers in the Landscape
		Otherwise, the gallery is sometimes reached by means of a tunnel at right-angles to it running from the side of the long mound.
		There are two chambers on each side of the gallery which are referred to as the 'transepts' with a chamber at the end of the gallery.
		The chamber is in the form of an antechamber and gallery which narrows slightly at the inner end and is often entered by a doorway framed by tall slabs.
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	Transepts
		The transepts cross the nave at the "crossing" (''plan, right''), which belongs equally to the main nave axis and to the transept.
		More often the transepts will extend well beyond the sides of the rest of the building, forming the shape of a cross; this is called a "Latin cross" groundplan, and these extensions are known as the arms of the transept.
		At Beauvais only the chevet and transepts stand; the nave of the cathedral was never completed after a collapse of the daring high vaulting in 1284.
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		Built from rock or sometimes wood, the chambers could also serve as places for storage of the dead from one family or social group and were often used over long periods for the placement of multiple burials.
		Most were built from large stones or megaliths and covered by cairns, barrows or earth, but the term is also applied to tombs cut directly into rock and wooden-chambered tombs covered with earth barrows.
		In Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe stone-built examples are known by the generic term of megalithic tombs.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=chamber_tomb (214 words)

	County Sligo - selected monuments
		The gallery is 10 metres long and aligned northeast-southwest with the well defined entrance at the SW.
		The gallery is about 6m long and defined by two slabs on each side and the spikiest backstone I have ever seen.
		Behind the gallery are the remains of 3 single-chambered subsidiary tombs, apparently built at the same time as the rest of the monument.
	www.irishmegaliths.org.uk /sligo.htm (3419 words)

	Megaliths
		The clear parallel between the Irish-Scottish connection and its analogue in lowland Britain is implied in the common use of east-orientated trapezoid Burial Galleries and, frequently, subsidiary chambers in both areas.
		The art on which is executed in a style resembling that of the simple tomb of Le Petit Mont which stands in the promontory of Arzon at the mouth of the Gulf of Moribhan in South Brittany.
		The galleries vary greatly in length, from as small as 2 metres to 14 metres.
	www.angelfire.com /me3/morganofthefairies/megaliths.html (5402 words)

	Transepted gallery grave - Art History Online Reference and Guide
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	Transepted gallery grave - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		oriesry grave is a term used to describe a number of similar megalithic chamber tombs built across Atlantic Europe during the Neolithic period.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Transepted gallery grave contains research on
		Transepted gallery grave, Death customs and Monument types.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Transepted_gallery_grave (122 words)

	Stoney Littleton Long Barrow guide book - Bath & North East Somerset Council
		The large slabs forming the entrance, gallery and chambers are of a finegrained blue-grey limestone from the Blue Lias, probably from the area of Newton St Loe, some 5 miles (8km) to the north west.
		The barrow is among the finest known accessible examples of the ‘true entrance’ type, comprising entrance leading via a vestibule to a gallery with pairs of side chambers (known technically as a transepted gallery grave).
		The first recorded opening was in about 1760 when the farmeroccupier forced an entry into the gallery through the roof to obtain stone for road mending, and for some time afterwards the site remained accessible to local people who entered it and removed human bones and anything else which took their fancy.
	www.bathnes.gov.uk /BathNES/environment/planningservices/Archaeology/StoneyLittletonGuideBook.htm (1489 words)

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		In the year 1821, the Rev. John Skinner, Rector or Camerton, observed in a field on the south side of the Wellow Brook (opposite Rainbow Wood (Wellow)) two erect stones which he considered to be all that remained from an ancient burial chamber.
		These also were named Giants' Grave, a name considered to be an almost certain indication of the site or a Neolithic long barrow, even when no visible evidence remains, as is now the case in both these examples.
		These two barrows and the two sites named Giants' Graves lie within a circle of radius 400 yards and suggest that Hinton Charterhouse supported a population in 2000 B.C., of people who had not yet learnt the use of metal weapons and implements.
	www.freshford.com /hinton_history1.htm (1110 words)

	Orientations of Neolithic Chambered Tombs in Glamorgan and Gwent, South Wales
		The altitude of the chamber is the highest in the survey region and since the horizon is 34 km away in Gloucestershire the elevation of the horizon is a low -0°.16.
		The first two tombs listed here are referred to as transepted terminal chambers, whereby the presence of a main chamber is replaced by small side chambers branching off at right angles to an axial passage.
		Pen-Maen Burrows has an orientation in accordance with those of the Vale of Glamorgan and Gwent group whilst Parc Cwm was aligned in conformity with the sides of the valley in which it stands.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mjpowell/Neotomb/Neotomb.htm (5761 words)

	Chamber tomb oddd.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Some of these are passage graves generally built of drystone walling and/or megaliths often with a round burial chamber in a round mound with a straight passage leading out.
		Gallery graves have a long megalithic chamber with parallel sides often in a long mound with an entrance at one end.
		They are not passage-graves since they lack any significant passage and are properly termed gallery graves.
	chamber.tomb.en.oddd.org (9736 words)

	Download Info of - Tholos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Because there are hundreds of such tombs, with more than one associated with each Mycenaean settlement, they were probably not burial places for the aristocracy alone, although the larger tombs, ranging from about 10 meters to about 15 meters in diameter, were likely used for royal burials.
		The larger tombs presumably contained aristocratic grave goods, but the tombs were pillaged in ancient times.
		A National Cemetery is generally a military cemetery containing the graves of United States military personnel, veterans and their spouses but not exclusively so.
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	Transepted Gallery Grave @ GipsyPrincess.com (Gipsy Princess) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		This page contains quite a lot of relevant information about Transepted gallery grave.
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