- Gallery grave
A Gallery grave is a form of
Megalithic tomb where there is no size difference between the burial chamber itself and the entrance passage. Two parallel walls of stone slabs were erected to form a corridor and covered with a line of capstones. The rectangular tomb was covered with a barrow or acairn . Most were built during the fourth millennium BC, though some were still being built in theBronze Age .They are distributed across
Europe and they are usually subdivided by period, region and also into more generic types ofchambered long barrow s,chambered round barrow s,chambered long cairn s andchambered round cairn s. Examples are known inCatalonia ,France , theLow Countries ,Germany , TheBritish Isles ,Scandinavia ,Sardinia and southernItaly .Allées couvertes or allées sepulchrales (German Galleriegräber) are defined as subterranean megalithic structures. The English gallery grave should be translated as tombe à couloir.Sub-types include:
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Court Cairn s
*Giants' grave s
*Naveta s
* thePeak District tomb group
*Severn-Cotswold or Cotswold-Severn tombs
*Seine-Oise-Marne culture allées couvertes
*Transepted gallery grave s
*Wedge-shaped gallery grave s
* "Hessisch-westfälische Steinkisten" (Galleriegräber)
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