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passage grave
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passage grave
n.
A Neolithic tomb consisting of a passageway and burial chamber made of large upright stones capped with other large stones, originally buried in an earthen mound.


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The Loughcrew Cairns, or the Hills of the Witch, a group of Neolithic passage tombs dating to 3,000BC, are just a mile from Corstown.
The temples of Atlantis also correspond with the passage tombs of Newgrange and Knowth, the book suggests.
Images painted on passage tombs in Ireland also reflect ancient shamanistic rituals, asserts Jeremy Dronfield of the University of Cambridge in England.
 
 
 
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