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Stryczowice, site VII, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski district. Internal face of megalithic tomb No. 1. View from SE. Photo. B. Sałacińska
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The cemetery of the Funnel Beaker culture at Stryczowice is situated in the Sandomierz Upland region. Three megalithic tombs and a flat cemetery were discovered and examined. The most well-preserved tomb is about 30 m long, and its plan has a trapezoidal shape. Its stone settings formed a kind of dry-stone wall – a phenomenon on a European scale. I...
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... outer front structure consisted of end-jointed stones and large-sized stone slabs, which were probably originally placed vertically (Fig. 7). The inner face of tomb No. 1 was made of large sandstones set up vertically or overlapping. The preserved height of the stone setting of the inner tomb face reached 70 cm and consisted of five stone layers (Fig. ...
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... a burial pit, burial goods and a skeleton) were uncovered. The graves were oriented along a N-S axis (grave No. 5 -male?, maturus/senilis or senilis; grave No. 6 -male?, adultus/ maturus, pavement No. 8) and a W-E axis (grave No. 7A -adult maturus I; 7B -male, maturus II; 9 -female?, maturus II; 21 -adult, senilis; Matraszek and Sałaciński 2003; fig. 8). The burial pits each had a length of about 2 m, and a width of about 90 cm. The construction of the burial pits consisted of a low cist made of flat stone slabs (mainly sandstones, sometimes limestones). They were covered with a compact, multi-layered stone pavement with a thickness up to about 50 cm (Figs. 12, ...
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