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In archaeology, a kerb or peristalith is the name for a stone wall built to enclose and often revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb. European dolmens especially hunebed and dyss burials often provide examples of the use of kerbs in megalithic architecture but they were also added to other kinds of chamber tomb. Kerbs may be built in a dry stone wall method employing small blocks or using larger stones set in the ground. When larger stones are employed, peristalith is the term more properly used.

In the British Isles, the enclosing nature of kerbs has been suggested to be analogous to Neolithic and Bronze Age stone circles and henges which also demonstrate an attempt to demarcate a distinct, roundSee The Circle for the distributed file storage system, and see Ring (diacritic) for the diacritic mark. In Euclidean geometry, a circle is the set of all points in a plane at a fixed distance, called the radius from a fixed point, called the centre . area for ritualA ritual is a formalised, predetermined set of symbolic actions generally performed in a particular environment at a regular, recurring interval. The set of actions that comprise a ritual often include, but are not limited to, such things as recitation, s or funeraryA funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour. These purposes.


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