transeptedadj.
/ˈtrɑːnsɛptᵻd//ˈtransɛptᵻd/ Archaeology.
Having chambers resembling transepts; spec. designating a type of gallery grave (see quot. 1956).
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1939 G. E. Daniel in Proc. Prehistoric Soc. V. 143 The present writer defined a type of megalithic burial chamber which was there called the transepted gallery grave.
1956 R. J. C. Atkinson Stonehenge v. 149 The tomb has..two pairs of chambers opening off its sides, in the manner of transepts in a church; for this reason the type is known technically as a transepted gallery-grave.
1963 G. Daniel in Foster & Alcock Culture & Environment ii. 14 Suggesting that it was in the area from south Finistère to the Vendée were found the tombs most likely to be the prototypes of the Gallery Graves and Transepted Gallery Graves and Rectangular Chambers of south Wales.
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