long barrow

noun

, Archaeology.

1. a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.

Example Sentences

The custom of burning the body commenced in the Stone Age, before the long barrow or the dolmen had passed out of use.

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Their graves of long-barrow type are found not only in the chalk areas but on the margins of the lias formations.

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Round barrows are the most common form, although some are oval and some of the "long barrow" type.

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So far as I am aware, no metallic implements have ever been found in the Scottish long barrow.

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This consists of an oblong mound of larger size than the primitive long barrow, and terminating in a point at both ends.

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