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Artificial Burial Cave
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"Burial Cave"

Subterranean hypogeum of approximately circular plan with a very deteriorated entrance corridor.

It is not strange to find burial hypogeums of this type around the greatest towns, although it was more usual, at least between the 5th and 3rd centuries B.C., to incinerate in lime the cadavers or to deposit them in wooden barrows in hypogeums grouped in the ravines of the interior or in the cliffs of the coast.

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© Joan C. de Nicolàs i Mascaró, Ferran Lagarda i Mata, Arqueomenorca, S.L., 2003