chamber tomb
noun Archaeology.
a type of late Neolithic to Bronze Age tomb found in Britain and Europe, usually of megaliths covered by mounds, sometimes decorated, and used for successive family or clan burials spanning a number of generations.
Compare
dolmen,
passage grave.
Origin of chamber tomb
First recorded in 1890–95
Words nearby chamber tomb
chamber opera,
chamber orchestra,
chamber organ,
chamber pop,
chamber pot,
chamber tomb,
chambered,
chambered nautilus,
chamberer,
chamberhand,
chamberlain
Example sentences from the Web for chamber tomb
Then we find the chamber-tomb of Den Semti at Abydos with a granite floor, the walls being still of brick.
History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery |L.W. King and H.R. HallThe famous Men-an-tol in Cornwall may well be all that is left of a chamber-tomb of some kind.
Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders |T. Eric Peet