tumuli

• I went into a cottage near the tumuli, and drank a bumper of mead to the memory of Thor from a very antique wooden vessel. —  James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
• In the valley of the Lug are two large tumuli, which are believed to cover the slain. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri of Monmouth Vol. I by J. Endell Tyler
• London, 1849, p. 140 The Romans themselves used weapons of bronze when they could not obtain iron in sufficient quantity, and many of the Roman weapons dug out of the ancient tumuli are of that metal. —  Industrial Biography
• In a notice of some archaeological discoveries made in Hamburgh, Erie County, which were published at Utica in 1817, he first denoted the necessity of discriminating between the antique French and European, and the aboriginal period in our antiquities; for the want of which discrimination, casual observers and discoverers of articles in our tumuli are perpetually over-estimating the state of ancient art. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
• Here a landslip has exposed the remains of a Romano-British pottery; there is a down with Pictish tumuli, and at long intervals one of the old farm-houses which it is impossible not to grudge to its possessor. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873

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