Burial Chamber n. XIX

Burial Chamber Number XIX was unearthed in 2003, while Number XX was found in 2004. Both feature “panelled” masonry, where not only the usual, horizontal, equalising rows of brick were built in, but the walls of the chapels were embellished with the pattern of roughly square, carved stones between vertically laid bricks. These small chapels had only a small apse, and perhaps they did not even have an entrance. In front of both burial chambers, a sloping shaft excavated in the ground can be observed, whereby the burial chamber could be accessed at funerals.