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burial mound

NOUN
  1. (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs

How To Use burial mound In A Sentence

  • In some anterior time, the burial mound had been desecrated, its jeweled contents taken away.
  • That's why they burned down their straw shelters and left no trace of their dwellings, only their sarcophagi and burial mounds.
  • With its prehistoric burial mounds, barrows and encampments, its feudal laws and time-trapped settlements, the New Forest is anything but dull.
  • Some of the many points of interest include early features such as burial mounds, stone circles and cairns that mark areas of prehistoric cultivation.
  • Occasionally, waterlogged conditions can occur inside burial mounds-a temperate-climate version of the Siberian phenomenon.
  • The tumuli, or ancient burial mounds, are obvious enough and we have always been able to work around them.
  • The tenuous suggestion that Stonehenge may thus be a sepulchral monument, is perhaps strengthened by the large number of burial mounds in the surrounding landscape.
  • Two horses with saddles and weapons and also vessels were also found in the burial mound, or kurgan. Mummies, Kurgans, Balbals
  • It will include visiting ancient and powerful local places: ring forts, burial mounds, and megalithic tombs in Roscommon and Sligo.
  • At Bergen-Belsen the President, accompanied by his wife, passed among the roll of the dead, the burial mounds.
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