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Its single cover-slab is supported by a varying number of uprights, sometimes as few as three, oftener four or more.
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At Eguilaz in the Basque provinces is a fine corridor-tomb, in which a passage 20 feet long, roofed with flat slabs, leads to a rectangular chamber 13 feet by 15 with an immense cover-slab nearly 20 feet in length: the whole was covered with a mound of earth.
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It was fourfold, for it involved the finding and possibly the quarrying of the stones, the moving of them to the desired spot, the erection of the uprights in their places, and the placing of the cover-slab or slabs on top of them.
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It has a rectangular niche to the west containing a fine trilithon with a cover-slab nearly 10 feet long.
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The cover-slab, measuring 10 feet by 8, is supported by seven rough uprights with considerable spaces between them.
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They occur nearly always on the upper surface of the cover-slab, very rarely on its under surface or on the side-walls.
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In the centre of the northern pair was a cover-slab supported by three uprights, and in the centre of the southern a single menhir.
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The orientation of the dolmens varied considerably, but the cover-slab was never placed in such a way that its length ran up the hill-slope, probably because in moving the slab into place this would have been an awkward position.
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Only one cover-slab, that at the west end, remains, and the exact disposition of the rest of the tomb is uncertain.
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The great cover-slab rests on two long blocks, one on either side, placed on edge.
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