shell-heap

All from each shell-heap are kept together, and specimens may thus be compared with one another all along the coast-line; or the visitor may go to another room, where the great Rose collection from

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

All the objects found in a particular spot -- taken from one grave or a single shell-heap, or, in wider range, belonging to the same geographical region -- are kept together, no matter how dissimilar the associated articles may be.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

I had once a like pleasure in raking over an Indian shell-heap with

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

He remarked that he 'd like to walk over an' see the shell-heap; so she went right to the door and pointed him the way.

The Hermitage 1910

No, 't is a dreadful small place to make a world of; it has a different look from any of the other islands, but there 's a sheltered cove on the south side, with mud-flats across one end of it at low water where there 's excellent clams, and the big shell-heap keeps some o 'the wind off a little house her father took the trouble to build when he was a young man.

Poor Joanna 1910

To these they added a plentiful supply of clams, which they dug with sharp sticks, at low tide, far out across the sand-flats -- toiling for all the world like two of the identical savages who in the long ago, a thousand or five thousand years before the white man came to America, had left shell-heap middens along the north Atlantic coast.

Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

Apart from the rough evidence furnished by the quality of the relics, calculations have been made of the age of an important shell-heap by assuming that it originally stood at the seaside, and by estimating the number of years required to separate it by the present interval from the coast at a fixed annual rate of silting.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

At Adakh a fancy prompted me to dig into a small knoll near the ancient shell-heap; and here we found, in a precisely similar sarcophagus, the remains of a skeleton, of which also only the cranium retained sufficient consistency to admit of preservation.

An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians 1884

At Adakh a fancy prompted me to dig into a small knoll near the ancient shell-heap, and here we found, in a precisely similar sarcophagus, the remains of a skeleton, of which also only the cranium retained sufficient consistency to admit of preservation.

A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884

No, 'tis a dreadful small place to make a world of; it has a different look from any of the other islands, but there's a sheltered cove on the south side, with mud-flats across one end of it at low water where there's excellent clams, and the big shell-heap keeps some o 'the wind off a little house her father took the trouble to build when he was a young man.

The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 1879