Misplaced Pages

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "V-shaped passage grave" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

V-shaped passage graves are a megalithic chamber tomb found in parts of Atlantic Europe including Ireland, the Channel Islands and Brittany. They date to between 3500 and 2500BC.

They are similar to Wedge-shaped gallery graves in that in plan they have a narrow entrance that widens out inside into a burial chamber. The entrance passage and the burial chamber are distinguished by sill stones, however, meaning they are part of the passage grave tradition.

In some cases a small sub chamber leads off from the main chamber.

Examples include "La Varde" and Le Creux es Faies on Guernsey and "Le Ruen" and "Ty-ar-Boudiquet" in Brtittany.

References

1. "Le Ruen V-shaped passage grave". themodernantiquarian.com. Retrieved 13 September 2022.

Further reading

• Daniel, Glyn E. (2013) . The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107697621.

This article relating to archaeology in Europe is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Stone Age Britain
• Burial monuments and structures
• European archaeology stubs