Passage grave

Japanese: passage grave(英語表記)passagegrave
Passage grave

...It is not customary to call a dolmen a tomb with side walls made of standing stone slabs or piled stone. However, if several dolmens are connected together to widen the interior space and provide a long passageway or opening at the front, it becomes a megalithic tomb or stone chamber tomb, called a passage grave or gallery grave in Europe. The same is true for Japanese horizontal stone chambers.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "passage grave" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…板石を立てたり切石を積んで側壁を築いたものは,ドルメンと呼ばないのが通例である。ただし,ドルメンをいくつかつないで内部の空間を広くし,前方に長い羨道や開口部を設ければ,ヨーロッパでパッセージグレーブpassage grave(羨道墓)とかギャラリーグレーブgallery grave(通廊墓)と呼ばれる巨石墓ないし石室墓となる。日本の横穴式石室もまた同様である。…

※「passage grave」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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