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Excerpt from The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Vol. 10: January-November, 1888
Each has its own individuality and differs from every other. They had no particular ornamentation.
Many of the dolmens are covered with earth and are tumuli. All may have been once so covered, A reason, aside from the local appearance, is that it is usual, if not universal, to find a vestibule, corridor, or covered way, made of the same kind of stones and in the same way, on the same level, leading from the entrance of the principal chamber, gradually narrowing both in width and height to what would appear to have been the circum ference of the tumulus. In th1s regard the dolmen now without a tumulus corresponds to those covered by one. Some of these corridors are forty to fifty feet in length. In this way the tomb could be covered, the entrance closed, and the monument com pleted, and yet be easily Opened and entered, upon the occasion of a second or subsequent interment.
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