barrow
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The barrow was among 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds dating to the 6th to 7th Centuries.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026
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 • Dec. 18, 2025
For hundreds of years, Norwegians thought they knew who or what had been interred in an enormous barrow on the island of Leka, which is just off the country’s northern coast, facing the Atlantic Ocean.
From New York Times • May 31, 2024
Fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire on Dec. 17, 2010 after a local official confiscated his barrow.
From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022
Between them, he and Lyddie wrestled the old sow to the ground and tied her, squealing, to a shaft of the barrow.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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