corridor-tomb

This quickly developed into the true corridor-tomb, which had at first a small round chamber with one or two cover-slabs, a short corridor, and a round or rectangular mound.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

The corridor-tomb is also frequent in Denmark and Sweden, though it is unknown in Norway.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

There are many fine examples in Brittany of the corridor-tomb with distinct chamber.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

Eskimos have a type of hut which is entered by a low passage often 30 feet in length, but for one who believes as Montelius does that the corridor-tomb is southern or eastern in origin such a derivation is impossible, for this type of house is essentially northern, its aim being to exclude the icy winds.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

A tomb at Sjöbol in Sweden where the corridor, consisting of only two uprights, is covered in with two roof-slabs instead of being left open, shows very clearly the transition to the corridor-tomb proper, in which the entrance passage consists of at least four uprights, two on each side.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

On the farm of the Grassi, near Lecce, are what appear to be two small dolmens at a distance of only 4 feet apart; they are perhaps parts of a single corridor-tomb.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

We pass on now to consider the simplest form of corridor-tomb, that in which there are several cover-slabs, but no separate chamber (Fig. 6).

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

At Eguilaz in the Basque provinces is a fine corridor-tomb, in which a passage 20 feet long, roofed with flat slabs, leads to a rectangular chamber 13 feet by 15 with an immense cover-slab nearly 20 feet in length: the whole was covered with a mound of earth.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

There is really no reason to derive either the dolmen or the corridor-tomb from dwellings at all.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908

Perhaps the most typical structure in France is the corridor-tomb in which the chamber is indistinguishable from the passage, and the whole forms a long rectangular area.

Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders 1908