Use for communal burial places with chambers of large upright stone slabs supporting large capstones, with or without an entry passage, and set in a mound of earth or stones.
AAT
30005934
chamber tombs, megalithic
dolmens
hunebedden
Hunebetten
Steinkisten
stone tables
stones, table
table stones
tables, stone
tombs, megalithic chamber
12yrs ago
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