barrow

Example Sentences

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He looked around the market in wonder: there were dozens of fruit stalls, with barrows piled with giant plums the size of watermelons and tiny oranges the size of his thumbnail.

From Literature

The barrow was among 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds dating to the 6th to 7th Centuries.

From BBC

It revealed a Bronze Age barrow - an ancient burial mound - with the cremated bones of several people contained inside five closely-packed urns.

From BBC

Luggage space is limited onboard, and trolleys and sack barrows are prohibited on both buses and trains.

From BBC

Scheduled monument sites identified by Right to Roam campaigners as having no existing legal rights of way to them include hillforts, holy wells, henges and ancient burial mounds known as barrows.

From BBC