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Newgrange (Irish: Sí an Bhrú [1]) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, located on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, eight kilometres (five miles) west of the town of Drogheda. [2] It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian ...
Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire, Neolithic chambered tomb. Barclodiad y Gawres, Neolithic cruciform passage grave. Belas Knap, Neolithic long barrow. Bryn Celli Ddu, Bronze Age passage grave on the site of a Neolithic stone circle and henge. Clava cairn, Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn. Devil's Lapful, Neolithic long cairn in Northumberland.
The word dolmen entered archaeology when Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne used it to describe megalithic tombs in his Origines gauloises (1796) using the spelling dolmin (the current spelling was introduced about a decade later and had become standard in French by about 1885).
The stone tomb, which is about 5,000 years old, was unearthed during an excavation in Orkney, ... The dig was initiated to follow up on an 1896 report of ancient stone ruins in the area.
Archaeologists have discovered a second Early Bronze Age tomb inside England’s Dartmoor National Park. Roughly a three-foot-by-three-foot square, the granite and wood box dates to about 1800 BC.
The passage tomb tradition is believed to have originated in the French region of Brittany. It was introduced to other regions such as Ireland by colonists from Brittany. [2] Tustrup-dysserne, the largest passage grave in Eastern Jutland, is an example of Funnelbeaker culture circa 3200 BC.
Archaeologists initially discovered the ancient tomb in April 2023 while exploring the necropolis, Finestre sull’Arte reported. It had been closed and untouched for about 2,600 years.
Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah from Agra. A tomb (Ancient Greek: τύμβος tumbos [1]) or sepulcher (Latin: sepulcrum) is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes.