Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
túmulos con tragaluz
English translation:
skylight tumuli
Added to glossary by
Wendy Streitparth
Jan 13, 2017 10:42
7 yrs ago
Spanish term
20yrs experience. Style & fluidity.
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
túmulos con tragaluz
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Archaeology
Burial mounds
Sin embargo, en los lugares más elevados y con un horizonte más despajado (y por tanto un mejor celaje), se encuentra un tipo especial de túmulo con unas características muy sugerentes ya que tienen un pequeño ventanuco o tragaluz en uno de sus lados, que en muchas ocasiones estaba cerrado por una gran piedra que podía ser retirada en caso de necesidad.
Este ventanuco es demasiado pequeño como para permitir el acceso de una persona y por ello, a esta clase de monumentos se les conoce como ******************** “túmulos con tragaluz”.
These buriarl mounds are found in the Maghreb and date back to the 8th Century BC.
Este ventanuco es demasiado pequeño como para permitir el acceso de una persona y por ello, a esta clase de monumentos se les conoce como ******************** “túmulos con tragaluz”.
These buriarl mounds are found in the Maghreb and date back to the 8th Century BC.
Proposed translations
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| 3 +2 | skylight tumuli |
Wendy Streitparth
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| 4 | Tumuli (burial mounds) with (hidden) hatch |
Ellen Kraus
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Change log
Jan 17, 2017 16:02: Wendy Streitparth Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Germany
Native in English
Germany
45 years experience
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: German to English, French to English, Spanish to English, and 2 more.
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skylight tumuli
skylight tumuli
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kt9DIY1g9HYC&pg=PA182&lp...
Whilst Foum al Rjam includes basically standard cairns and skylight tumuli....
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_quer...
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Tombs of this type are called skylight tumuli because they have a small skylight (for unknown purposes, but too small to give access to human beings) that is sometimes closed by a large, flat stone..
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_quer...
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kt9DIY1g9HYC&pg=PA182&lp...
Whilst Foum al Rjam includes basically standard cairns and skylight tumuli....
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_quer...
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Note added at 1 hr (2017-01-13 12:07:59 GMT)
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Tombs of this type are called skylight tumuli because they have a small skylight (for unknown purposes, but too small to give access to human beings) that is sometimes closed by a large, flat stone..
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_quer...
Peer comment(s):
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Charles Davis
: I was about to post this. Some might object that these authors who coined this term are Spanish and not native English speakers, but the same term is used by Michael Hoskin, Emeritus Professor at Cambridge, so I think it can be regarded as mainstream.
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Well, if you were about to post, one can probably be happy that it's reasonably OK. Thanks!
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patinba
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Thanks, patinba
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks for all the contributions and suggestions. I went with skylight tumuli in the end as it appears to be the term used by archaeologists discussing this particular site."
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Ellen Kraus
Austria
Austria
Austria
more than thirty years of experience
Native in: German 
Works in: Greek to German, English to German, Greek to English, and 5 more.
Tumuli (burial mounds) with (hidden) hatch
Anglo-Saxon burial mounds refers to the burial mounds - also known as barrows or tumuli - that ... 580 AD,
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but there is also the term ROOF-BOX (or roofbox) especially in ancient Irish burial sites.
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and the following link is not convincing enough to justify the high confidence Level I indicated in my answer:
www.catalhoyuk.com:8080/archive_reports/1999/ar99_03.html
A total of 18 burials were excavated, 13 infants and neonates mostly in ... The remaining unexcavated depth to the base of the mound which had to be ..... too small for human traffic and therefore possibly serving as a hatch. .... Barely large enough for a person to slide through, its function may have served as a type of hatch
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Note added at 1 Stunde (2017-01-13 12:20:01 GMT)
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another possibility could be "Tumuli with Light boxes" in line with my latest discussion entry.
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and:
"At Newgrange, the light-box is used along with other construction features (such as the passage narrowing and undulating along it length and a subtle increase in altitude towards the centre), which combine to focus the rays of the sun along the passage into a small, narrow beam of light, which is visible for only a few minutes on a few days around the winter solstice. As well as illustrating the astronomical nature of the structure, the inclusion of such a specific set of designs highlights the importance of accuracy to the builders.
'Light-Boxes':
Light-Boxes are a construction feature specific to European passage-mounds.
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Note added at 24 Min. (2017-01-13 11:06:45 GMT)
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but there is also the term ROOF-BOX (or roofbox) especially in ancient Irish burial sites.
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Note added at 1 Stunde (2017-01-13 11:49:54 GMT)
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and the following link is not convincing enough to justify the high confidence Level I indicated in my answer:
www.catalhoyuk.com:8080/archive_reports/1999/ar99_03.html
A total of 18 burials were excavated, 13 infants and neonates mostly in ... The remaining unexcavated depth to the base of the mound which had to be ..... too small for human traffic and therefore possibly serving as a hatch. .... Barely large enough for a person to slide through, its function may have served as a type of hatch
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Note added at 1 Stunde (2017-01-13 12:20:01 GMT)
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another possibility could be "Tumuli with Light boxes" in line with my latest discussion entry.
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Note added at 1 Stunde (2017-01-13 12:33:56 GMT)
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and:
"At Newgrange, the light-box is used along with other construction features (such as the passage narrowing and undulating along it length and a subtle increase in altitude towards the centre), which combine to focus the rays of the sun along the passage into a small, narrow beam of light, which is visible for only a few minutes on a few days around the winter solstice. As well as illustrating the astronomical nature of the structure, the inclusion of such a specific set of designs highlights the importance of accuracy to the builders.
'Light-Boxes':
Light-Boxes are a construction feature specific to European passage-mounds.
Discussion
https://books.google.es/books?redir_esc=y&id=jz5oAAAAMAAJ&fo...
At present there are only four (possibly five), known examples of 'light-boxes', all in European megalithic structures (passage-mounds). Their design permits a focused beam of light from prominent celestial objects such as the sun and moon, to enter the chamber at specific times of their cycles. The most famous of these is at Newgrange in Ireland, where the light-box allows the suns rays to pass along the passage into the heart of the mound on the winter-solstice sunrise, (and possibly, one of the major lunar stand-stills - to be confirmed)...