tumulus
Example Sentences
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The stones, or menhirs — some as tall as six feet — buttressed a massive capstone set in a tumulus, or a mound of earth and pebbles.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022
Both the capstone and the tumulus were dismantled in 1925 during an excavation led by Hugo Obermaier, a Spanish-German anthropologist and prehistorian.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022
Bassett said afterward that the site includes an apron of riprap around the men’s tumulus, which is in a ravine.
From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2015
Bassett said he was sitting on a pile of boulders when he realized that the rocks were the top layer of a tumulus, an archaeological term for a burial chamber or sepulcher.
From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2015
“I didn’t know there was a tumulus in it.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
