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Ossuary   Listen
noun
Ossuary  n.  (pl. ossuaries)  A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... antiquaries pronounce this to be a fortified cave, unique of its kind, devised to protect the road to Lussac, at the strategical point where it could best be defended. I have myself no manner of doubt that it was a so- called demi-dolmen, a tribal ossuary of neolithic man. Not only is it quite in character with his megalithic remains scattered over the country, but treasure-seekers who in digging displaced and brought down one of the side slabs found two ...
— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould



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