grave-mound

At nightfall he went into the churchyard, and seated himself on the grave-mound.

Household Tales 2003

Some thought they had glimpsed his tall form by twilight, entering the grave-mound as if by a door.

Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

Bedivere, sent to spy things out, found a small boat and rowed across to the islet, where, as he landed, he heard the ullaloo of a woman wailing, and found, by the fire, an old woman weeping beside a new grave-mound.

The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

BARROW (from A.S. _beorh_, a mount or hillock), a word found occasionally among place-names in England applied to natural eminences, but generally restricted in its modern application to denote an ancient grave-mound.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

Of outward and visible monuments, save here and there a howe or grave-mound, the Vikings, unlike their Pictish predecessors, have left us little or nothing on the mainland.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

Had it not been for their brotherly and sisterly zeal in nursing me, which never flagged throughout my illness, future travelers might have been able to point to a little grave-mound on the hill-tops, and have given a chance thought to an adventurer whom the fates had handled roughly.

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

The grave-mound lay within a rude stock-ade; and an uninscribed wooden cross, gray and weather-beaten, marked the last resting-place of the unknown and forgotten man beneath, the man who had paid with his humble life the cost of pushing the frontier of civilization into the wild savagery of the wilderness.

VI. Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil 1914

Ruth lay back against a grave-mound and stared at him.

The Swindler and Other Stories 1910

What folly it was to care! what folly to have allowed the tendrils of his over-sensitive heart to twine themselves round this beautiful girl, who was as far removed from his destiny as were the ambitions of his boyhood, the hopes, the dreams which the hard circumstances of fate had forced him to bury beneath the grave-mound of rigid and unswerving duty.

The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

Where the wolverine tumbles their packs from the camp and the grave-mound they made them;

The Seven Seas Rudyard Kipling 1900