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1938 A. Serner ‘Dyss’ Burial i. 8 The Younger Stone Age begins with the ‘dyss’ period.

1938 A. Serner ‘Dyss’ Burial i. 27 My research below intends to show that the oldest form of megalithic tombs in South Scandinavia, the rectangular simple dolmen called below ‘dyss’ by me, is spread in prehistoric times outside South Scandinavia.

1947 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 4) x. 179 One classical method of disposal of the dead..which gives its name to the whole period in Denmark, was ceremonial burial in a megalithic dolmen or dyss. In its oldest form a dyss is a small chamber formed by four uprights supporting a single large capstone, and less than 6ft long by 2 ft. wide.

1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings i. i. 18 Builders of dolmen and dysse.

1970 W. Bray & D. Trump Dict. Archaeol. 78 Dyss, a megalithic cist of the final stage of the Danish Early Neolithic... The oldest dysser are slab cists roofed with capstones and containing from one to six skeletons. The burial chamber is covered with a mound which rises to the height of the capstone and has a retaining kerb of stones.