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shaft grave

noun

, Archaeology.
  1. a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of shaft grave1

First recorded in 1905–10

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Example Sentences

Below this stratum was an older shaft grave, as is usual in tholos interments; it had been plundered?

The poet of the age of the second expansions, then,' is at least in touch with the work of the shaft grave and ages.

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