 These older tombs, the first of which was built in 1630 for King Andrianjaka, were a series of seven tomb pits topped with individual wooden "trano masina" (tomb houses) built close together in a row with their gable peaks aligned, followed by one tomb pit without a tomb house.Tomb houses are particular to highland tombs and are intended to indicate the noble rank of the deceased and house his or her spirit after death.Each tomb of the Fitomiandalana contained the bodies of early Kings of Imerina and their relatives, and was assigned a name after the principal occupant of the underlying grave.