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GCSE Classics · key term
A circular burial chamber with a corbelled, beehive-shaped roof, usually approached through a passage called a dromos.
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Revise: Key sitesThe older Grave Circle B lay outside the citadel, as did monumental tholos tombs, including the Tomb of Aegisthos, Tomb of Clytemnestra and Treasury of Atreus.
A tomb with a circular chamber and a corbelled stone roof, often called a beehive tomb.
Distinguish a built tholos tomb from a rock-cut chamber tomb. Both could have a dromos, so the passage alone does not identify the type.
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A circular stone-built tomb with a corbelled, beehive-shaped roof, usually covered with earth.
A circular burial chamber with a corbelled, beehive-shaped roof, usually approached along a passage called a dromos.