single-slabbed

Updated: May 21, 2025

Moreover, not a few tombs belonged to the category of cists; that is to say, excavations in rock, with a single-slabbed or many-slabbed cover; or receptacles formed with stone clubs, cobbles, or boulders. *The stone sarcophagus was of considerable size and various shapes, forming an oblong box with a lid of a boatlike form.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era