It is a stone- or brick-lined underground space or ´burial´ chamber for the interment of a dead body or bodies. These burial tombs were originally and ...
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are still often vaulted and usually have stone slab entrances. They are often privately owned and used for specific family or other groups, but usually stand beneath a public religious building, such as a church, or in a churchyard or cemetery. A crypt may be used as a burial vault.[citation needed]