tumulus
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Last summer, archaeologists and a metal detectorist conducted a small survey of the tumulus on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate for Culture Heritage.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2024
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
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
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
“Oh, hang the tumulus! What tumulus? What am I supposed to be talking about7” “Stupidity,” said Arthur.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Sardis' landscape is vulnerable to natural erosion, while many tumuli have already been damaged by farming.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
With its origins in pre-Buddhist burial mounds or sacred tumuli, it retains a cosmogonic power.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
"In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
Another mile brings us to Bartlow, where, hard by the church, stand the three huge tumuli from which the name of the village is said to be derived.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
Here, too, in the neighbourhood of Harmony, there are ancient tumuli, which, externally, are exactly similar to those which are everywhere found in our German forests.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
