A flat grave is a burial in a simple oval or rectangular pit. The pit is filled with earth, but the grave is not marked above the surface by any means...
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Únětice culture (section Flat graves)
Group From a technical point of view, Úněticean graves can be divided in two categories: flat graves and barrows. The Únětice culture practiced skeletal...
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Necropolis of Soderstorf (section Flat grave)
and a flat grave. The megalithic tomb was erected between 3500 and 2800 BC by people of the Funnelbeaker culture in the Neolithic period. The grave was...
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These are set into a stone- or timber-covered grave covered with a tumulus. Cremations and flat grave burials are also known. Decorations found on ceramics...
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Shallow Grave is a 1994 British black comedy crime film directed by Danny Boyle, in his feature directorial debut, and starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher...
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2011-06-26. Calverton National Cemetery Calverton National Cemetery at Find a Grave U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Calverton National...
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Engraving (section Tools and gravers or burins)
background, or create bright cuts. Knife gravers are for line engraving and very deep cuts. Round gravers, and flat gravers with a radius, are commonly used on...
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includes a flat grave marker resembling one of them. It is constructed from melted basalt and has a concrete foundation. It is a symbolic grave, as the Nazis...
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Chambers is buried at Forest Park Cemetery in Houston beneath a large, flat grave stone inscribed with his name, affiliation with the Bandidos, and the...
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Thomas Turner visited Flat Holm in a small boat and was stranded for a week due to high winds. He discovered two Christian graves located close together...
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La Cambe German war cemetery (category German War Graves Commission)
mass grave. The tumulus is surrounded by 49 rectangular grave fields with up to 400 graves each. On the large grass areas graves are identified by flat grave...
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From Beyond the Grave (also known as The Creatures from beyond the Grave) is a 1974 British anthology horror film from Amicus Productions, directed by...
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the Single Grave culture of Denmark. In the Battle Axe culture, the deceased were usually placed in a single flat grave with no barrow. Graves were typically...
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buildings, or grave markers. Grave fields can be classified by type of burial custom: tumulus (kurgan) fields flat graves row graves: grave fields arranged...
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Copper axe, Denmark In eastern Denmark and Scania one-person graves occur primarily in flat grave cemeteries. This is a continuation of the burial custom characterising...
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original burial mounds and wooden markers have since been replaced by flat graves with engraved stone markers. The 29 members of Unit 124 killed in the...
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unfortified, with 8–20 households with courtyards. Burial sites were both flat graves and barrows (kurgans), and cremation was dominant. Slavic archaeologists...
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Gravestone (redirect from Grave-stone)
and a gravestone was the stone slab (or ledger stone) that was laid flat over a grave. Now, all three terms ("stele", "tombstone" or "gravestone") are also...
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culture is entirely defined by its burials. These include kurgans and flat graves. Burials are oriented towards the east or northeast, in a supine position...
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name Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures. Books by other authors: The Mount Rushmore Calamity (2009) – author Sara Pennypacker The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery...
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Langemark German war cemetery (category German War Graves Commission)
students killed during the First Battle of Ypres, inside the entrance block. Flat grave markers. For the 100th anniversary commemoration of World War I, many...
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Symphony is also in E-flat. But even before Beethoven, Francesco Galeazzi identified E-flat major as "a heroic key, extremely majestic, grave and serious: in...
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flat that bears their name. What became known as Oatman Grave 33°00′15″N 113°09′23″W / 33.00417°N 113.15639°W / 33.00417; -113.15639, on the flat below...
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settlement. They performed cremation burial in kurgan burial mounds and in flat-grave cemeteries with cremations in urns. The culture is characterized by the...
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John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame (redirect from Kennedy Grave)
which would accommodate the graves. Flat black ledger stones (3 feet (0.91 m) by 4.53 feet (1.38 m)) would mark each grave, listing the name and date of...
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present day, beneath uniformly designed unornamented tombstones and rows of flat grave mounds. The column is framed from behind by a stone bench or exedra, simpler...
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Finds are mostly from tumuli, flat graves and Brandgruben graves or cremation pits. There are few and modest grave goods, with the weapon deposits characteristic...
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A gallery grave is a form of megalithic tomb built primarily during the Neolithic Age in Europe in which the main gallery of the tomb is entered without...
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centuries, there were flat cemeteries as well as barrow cemeteries. In the 9th and 10th centuries, the transition started from flat graves to barrows. There...
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Burgstallkogel (section The chieftains' graves)
which found their way into the public domain. There are also several flat graves in the Burgstallkogel area, which date back to the 10th century BC. The...
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